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 as if waiting for a fateful and terrible day.” A young, clean girl, Daria Dmitrievna Bulavina, arrives in St. Petersburg for … Read more
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, in the Sahara Desert, in a crazy house in Cairo, at sea and again in Norway, in the homeland of the … Read more
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 of the 16th – early 17th century. in Iceland and Denmark, as well as in Holland and Germany, where one of … Read more
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 their father. The children were delighted and began running around the apartment, not noticing that their mother had come. After reading … Read more
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, the woman with whom he lived for the last twenty years, Donna Rosalia Solimene, a seventy-five-year old woman who shared the … Read more
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 out. A young Frenchman arrived by day train, who immediately attracted everyone’s attention with his beauty and courtesy. He very quickly … Read more
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 captive knights were brought to the city, and all but one of them were executed on the orders of Saladin. The … Read more
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 is not the only beauty, but everyone knows her gentle nature. A lot of suitors are wooing to her, but Maria’s … Read more
“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. In the town there was an opinion about her late husband Captain Alvinge as a noble, ideally decent, generous man, and … Read more
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 corpse of a man killed the night before by a shot in the temple from the revolver of the lieutenant of … Read more