Family Ramsey: father – Mr Ramsey, mother – Mrs. Ramsey, children – Nancy, James, Cam, Pro, Rosa, Andrew, Jesper, Roger. They live on the island of Skye. A lighthouse is visible in the distance. First in the narrative there are a lot of thoughts of the mother, she gives an assessment of all that is … Read more
The comedy “Nedorosl” was written by D. I. Fonvizin in 1781. The main problem of the work is the condemnation of the traditional education of the nobles, in particular the provincial, their stupidity and maliciousness. The play “The Minor” is written in the classic style, which is reflected in the “talking” names of heroes, a … Read more
England, early thirties. Hercule Poirot with his old friend and assistant captain Hastings come to the seaside resort of Saint-Loup in the south of England. Near the hotel “Majestic”, in which they stopped, they meet a young girl. Nick Buckley. In conversation for a cocktail it turns out that she is the owner of the … Read more
EI Zamyatin We are a far future. D-503, a talented engineer, the builder of the spacecraft Integral, writes notes for posterity, tells them about “the highest peaks in human history” – the life of the United State and its head the Benefactor. The title of the manuscript is “We”. The D-503 admires the fact that … Read more
V. P. Kataev embezzlers courier Nikita placed before chief accountant Filippom Stepanovichem Prohorovym cup of tea, but not gone. He clearly wanted to talk. Newspapers were full of reports of embezzlement and embezzlement and a general raid in Moscow their escape from justice. Even in the house on Myasnitskaya, where their office is located, five … Read more
Plan The lyrical digression of the author about station wardens, his reflections on this estate. Meet the narrator at one of the post stations with station warden Samson Vyrin and his daughter Dunya. A new meeting between the narrator and Samson Vyrin. The story told by the caretaker: the arrival of the hussar, his imaginary … Read more
A. C. Clark Space Odyssey 2001 Planet Earth, Pleistocene, Savannah Equatorial Africa. A small tribe of Pithecanthropus is on the verge of extinction. Nature did not endow them with powerful fangs, no sharp claws, no fast legs, but in their eyes glimpses of consciousness flicker. Probably, it is these qualities that attracted the attention of … Read more
Candide, a pure and sincere youth, is brought up in the impoverished castle of a beggar, but a vain Westphalian Baron, along with his son and daughter. Their home teacher, Dr. Panglass, a homegrown philosopher-metaphysician, taught the children that they live in the best of the worlds, where everything has a cause and effect, and … Read more
Ten years have passed since Flem Snopes, with his wife and baby, arrived in Jefferson and settled behind the counter of the restaurant, half the share in which he traded from VK Ratlif to a third of the abandoned estate of the Old Frenchman. Soon he was already the sole owner of this institution, and … Read more
L. Feuchtwanger Jewish Suess The action takes place in the first half of the XVIII century. in the German Duchy of Württemberg. Isaac Simon Aandauer, the court banker of the Duke of Eberhard-Ludwig and his favorite Countess von Wurben, a rich and very influential person, has long been eyeing Josef Süss Oppenheimer, who has been … Read more