Officer Zhilin served in the Caucasus. Once he receives a letter from his mother and decides to go away to rest in his native land. On the way, he meets an officer and two of them are caught by Tatars. The guilt of this situation was Kostylin, since he had to cover up Zilin, but, … Read more
The hero of the narrative, a twenty-eight-year-old Maltese Dane of Malta, Laurides Brigg, the last representative of the noble family, finds herself in Paris all alone and on the verge of poverty. His observations now focus on how the outcasts live in Paris: doss-houses, the chloroform stench in a hospital for the poor, the rumbling … Read more
A “Diavona” spaceship from the planet of Ramery is sent to Earth. As a part of the crew, the captain of the ship is a general, navigator, doctor, pilot and servant of General Ilsor. On the planet of Rameria live arzacs – talented, but trusting, like children, people, and menites, who have a supreme ruler. … Read more
VO Bogomolov Ivan The young senior lieutenant Galtsev, the interim commander of the battalion, was awakened in the middle of the night. A boy of about twelve was detained near the shore, all wet and shivering from the cold. Galtsev’s strict questions are answered only by the fact that his name is Bondarev, and demands … Read more
T. Junichiro Fine Snow The action takes place in the thirties and ends in the spring of 1941. The sisters of Makiok belong to an ancient family. At one time, their name was known to all residents of Osaka, but in the twenties the financial situation of Makiyoka’s father was shaken, and the family gradually … Read more
The plot breaks up into separate stories, and each of them has several options. Thus, for example, the narrator’s image splits into two different images, Enderlin and Gantenbein, which embody possible versions of his existence for the narrator. The author does not allow to “examine” the fate of his characters to their natural end. It … Read more
Theophile Gautier Captain Fracassus XVII century, the time of the reign of Louis XIII. In Gascony, in a dilapidated castle, Baron de Sigonyak drags on a miserable existence, the last descendant of a once noble and powerful race, a young man of about twenty-five, “who would easily be known as handsome if he did not … Read more
AA Bestuzhev Roman and Olga (The flow of the story is between 1396 and 1398. All the historical events and persons mentioned in it are presented with unrelenting accuracy. The readers can take the second chapter of Volume 5 of the History of the Russian State “Karamzin.” – From the author’s notes.) “It will not … Read more
America’s relatively short-term future, as she saw the author in the early fifties, when this novel-dystopia was written. Thirty-year-old Guy Montag is a firefighter. However, in these modern times fire brigades do not fight with fire. Quite the contrary. Their task is to find books and fire them, as well as the homes of those … Read more
The Old Woodcutter cuts wood in the woods and always remembers grief and wickedness. His niece Nastya brings him dinner. The woodcutter rebukes the girl that she is waiting for her beloved, soldier Ivan Tarabanov, who is naked as a falcon, but rejects the rich miller. The woodcutter continues to cut down the forest, remembering … Read more