Fabrizio, the youngest son of the Marquis of Valserra del Dongo, spends his childhood in the family castle of Griante built in the 15th century over the beautiful Lake Como. He has two sisters
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The plot of this tale by KG Paustovsky is uncomplicated. Pyotr Terentyev leaves the village for war. His young son Stepa gave the father of the old rhinoceros beetle, which he caught in the
On the Kyogin Street, there were women – very young and older – and for knitting they spent time before the fishermen returned. At Donna Pasqua and Donna Libera in the sea husbands left,
Altsest did not cease to amaze his people with his temper, convictions and actions, and now even his old friend Philint refused to consider his friend – for the fact that he talked too
Norman Mailer Naked and dead World War II. Pacific theater of military operations. The history of the landing and capture by the Americans of the fictional island of Anapopey, where the Japanese concentrated, develops
Petersburg. Rodion Raskolnikov goes with a mortgage to the interest-bearing Alena Ivanovna, with whom the gray sister Lizaveta lives. A former student plans to kill the old woman, calculating all the details. Having received
I. Turgenev Bachelor Actors (shortened list). Mikhailo Ivanovich Moshkin, 50 years old. lively, busy, good-natured. Pyotr Ilyich Vilitsky, 23 years old. indecisive, weak, self-interested man. Rodion Karlovich von Funk, 29 years old. Cold, dry
Thought to start the diary came to Chelkatourine on March 20. The doctor admitted finally that he had to live for two weeks. Soon the rivers will burst. Together with the last snow they
AP Platonov Chevengur After four years in the fifth hunger drove people to the city or to the woods – there was a crop failure. Zakhar Pavlovich remained alone in the village. During the