During the Second World War, while in England and commanding a company that did not take part in hostilities, Captain Charles Ryder received orders from the commanders to transport his subordinates to a new place. Arriving at the place of destination, the captain discovers that he was at the Brideshead estate, with which his whole … Read more
“His Last Bow” is one of the stories of the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Included in the self-titled “His Farewell Bow”. Published in 1917, in Strand Magazine. The last story about Holmes by the time of action (but not publication – the stories from the collection “The Archives … Read more
Once in Arabia, the glorious king Rostevan ruled, and had his only daughter – the beautiful Tinatin. Anticipating close old age, he ordered Rostevan even during his lifetime to raise his daughter to the throne, which he told the viziers. Those favorably took the decision of the wise ruler, for “Although the damsel will be … Read more
In the tent of Dimitry, Grand Duke of Moscow, – the military council. The prince calls to fight with the Tatars: now, when the Kurchak Horde has disintegrated and the khans are fighting for power, the united Russian troops will be able to defeat Mamai, who is going to war against them. Demetrius is sure … Read more
Vladimir Zheleznikov Scarecrow In the provincial school somewhere between Kaluga and Serpukhov comes a new student Lena Bessoltseva. She settles in the house of her grandfather, Nikolai Nikolayevich, a former military man who collects paintings for the purpose of arranging a picture gallery in his house. In town his grandfather is disliked for his closed … Read more
J. Slovak Lambro, Greek insurgent Greek Minotta sails by boat to the native island of Ipsar. He can see blossoming orange trees, overshadowing the ruins of the colonnades, the peaks of the mountains, drowning in the azure sky. Houses on the island are, as it were, embedded in coastal rocks, and light contours of minarets … Read more
For many successful, rich people, “The richest man in Babylon” is a handbook with which someone started their success, and someone tempered it. Each of us dreams about something, achieves something and at the same time wants to have stability. And as you know, stability does not happen without literacy and wisdom. Reading or listening … Read more
In preparation for the publication of the notes of Murra, the descendant of the celebrated Ginz von Ginzenfeld (better known to the world as the Cat in Boots), the publishers drew attention to the presence in the manuscript of apparently extraneous fragments – excerpts from a previously published narrative about the bandmaster Johannes Kreisler and … Read more
Florent returned to Paris, where seven years ago, in December 1851, after barricade fights in the night city, he was sent into exile, to the hell of Cayenne. He was taken only for the fact that he, like a lost man, wandered around the city at night and his hands were bloody-he was trying to … Read more
NS Leskov Tupeyny artist The story of this author hears from the nurse of his younger brother Lyubov Onisimovna, in the past the beauties of the actress Orel Theater Count Kamensky. At the Trinity, she leads the author to the cemetery, where the simple grave tells the story of “tupeynogo artist” Arkady. Arkady – a … Read more