The first book. The Sisters Beginning in 1914, St. Petersburg, “tormented by sleepless nights, deafening his longing for wine, gold, bezlyuboy love, tearing and powerless sensual sounds of tango – the death hymn lived
The action of the poem covers the time from the beginning to the 60s. XIX century. and occurs in Norway (in the Gudbrann valley and surrounding mountains), on the Moroccan coast of the Mediterranean,
X. Laxness The Icelandic Bell The action of the novel-trilogy of Hallordor Laxness (part I – Icelandic Bell, part two – The Golden-Maiden, part three – The Fire in Copenhagen) unfolds at the end
New Year’s Eve. during the game of two brothers, Chuk and Huck, there was a ring at the door. Opening it, they saw the postman standing in the doorway, who brought a letter from
E. de Filippo Filumena Marturano The action takes place in Naples in the rich house of the fifty-two-year-old Don Domenico Soriano, a successful entrepreneur. In the room are himself Don Domenico, Donna Filumena Marturano,
Stefan Zweig Twenty-four hours from the life of a woman Ten years before the war, the narrator rested on the Riviera, in a small boarding house. In a nearby hotel, a major scandal broke
During the Crusades at the end of the XII century. The crusaders are defeated in their third campaign and are compelled to conclude a truce with the Arab sultan Saladin, the ruling Jerusalem. Twenty
A. Pushkin Poltava “Kochubei is rich and glorious, / Its meadows are boundless,” he owns many treasures, but the main wealth of Kochubei is his daughter Maria, which is equal in all Poltava. Maria
“Ghosts” (1881) is also one of Ibsen’s best plays. It constantly reveals some secrets, the characters are constantly discovering something new for themselves, hence the tension. The main character is a widow Fru Alving.
On the morning of November 3, 1948, Alphonse Klenen, a police officer from Twann, stumbles upon a blue Mercedes standing on the roadside in the direction of Aambuen. In the car he discovers the