Ovid Metamorphosis The word “metamorphosis” means “transformation.” There were a lot of ancient myths that ended in the transformations of the heroes – into the river, to the mountain, into the animal, into the
Action I Sicily. Servant of Don Juan, Sganarelle, talks with the stables of his wife, the daughters of Elvira, Gusman. He says that the woman went in vain after Don Juan. Guzman asks to
On one of the construction sites in Irkutsk, two girls work at the grocery store – Valya and Larisa. Valya is a cashier, she is twenty-five years old. This is a cheerful girl who
1925 Rosemary Hoyt, a young but already famous after the success in the film “Father’s daughter” Hollywood actress, together with her mother comes to the Cote d’Azur. Summer is not a season, only one
Fifteen years ago, the author heard this story, and he does not know why, she lives in it and burns her heart. “Maybe it’s all about her depressing routine, in her disarming simplicity?” It
O. Henry Jimmy Valentine’s Appeal The famous safe burglar Jimmy Valentine, once again going free, calmly mistaken for the old. There is a series of daring robberies, losses are significant, and the evidence is
A few centuries before the birth of Christ in the heart of Hindustan there was a strong, albeit a small number of people. His name has already been blotted out of history, but the
White Fang’s father is a wolf, a mother, Kichi, half a she-wolf, half a dog. So far, he has no name. He was born in the Northern Glush and survived the only one of
IA Goncharov Ordinary story This summer morning in the village of Grachi began unusually: with the dawn, all the inhabitants of the house of the poor landowner Anna Pavlovna Adueva were already on their
Graham Green The Quiet American Alden Pyle is a representative of the economic department of the American Embassy in Saigon, an antagonist of Fowler, another hero of the novel. Being a generalized depiction of