Thomas Mine Reed White Leader The action takes place in Mexico in the late 18th – early 19th century. The novel opens with a description of the holiday in honor of the day of St. John in the small Mexican town of San Ildefonso. Here all the layers of society are having fun. Among the … Read more
Chang (dog) sleeps, recalls how six years ago in China he met his current master, the captain. During this time, their fate changed abruptly: they no longer swim, live in the attic, in a large and cold room with low ceilings. The captain sleeps on the crushed bed, but Chang remembers what bed his master … Read more
William Faulkner Noise and Fury “Life is a story told by a cretin, full of noise and fury, but devoid of meaning.” To retell this story differently from what it was originally told means to try to tell a very different story, except that the people in it will have the same names, they will … Read more
Wonderful powder In the Blue Country, which was inhabited by kind and kind-hearted Munchkins, lived the morose, solitary carpenter Oorfene Deuce, who was trying to be different in everything from his fellow tribesmen. Oorfene was a master of his craft, but the things he did, turned out to be as evil as he was. They … Read more
Part one The novel begins in the Moyunkum Nature Reserve, where a wolf pair lived – Akbar and Tashchaynar. In the summer they were born cubs, and when the first snow fell, the wolves, going hunting, found that the reserve is full of people. Hunters arrived in the reserve to fulfill the plan for the … Read more
Novella, or rather a novel, “Carmen” is perhaps the most famous work of Merimee. The theme chosen for “Carmen” already had a romantic tradition, but the writer made her realistic development. The central character of the work is the Gypsy Carmen. The realistic character of this image is clearly more vivid when comparing it with … Read more
N. S. Leskov Soboryane The subject of the story is the “life-be” of the representatives of the St. Catherine’s Popovka: Protopriest Saveliy Tuberozov, priest Zakhary Benefaktov and deacon Achilla Desnitsyn. Childless Tuberozov keeps all the ardor of the heart and all the energy of youth. Personality of the Benefit – the embodiment of meekness and … Read more
Agatha Christie At 4:50 from Paddington Mrs. Elspeth McGillicady, a middle-aged woman tired of Christmas shopping in London, sits down on the train at Paddington Station, flips through the magazine and falls asleep. Half an hour later she wakes up. It’s dark outside the window. The train crashes with a crash. Then, for a while, … Read more
The poet – a handsome, twenty-two-year-old – teases a philistine, softened thought with a bloody patch of his heart. In his soul there is no old tenderness, but he can turn himself inside out – so that there are only solid lips. And he will be impeccably tender, not a man, but a cloud in … Read more
N. Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter In the introductory essay to the novel tells of the author’s native city – Salem, his ancestors – puritan fanatics, his work in the Seyme customs and the people he had to face there. “Neither the ceremonial, nor the back door of customs does not lead to paradise,” and the … Read more