ETA Hofmann Cavalier Gluck The main character sitting in a cafe and listening, in his opinion, the ugly music of a local orchestra, gets to know a mysterious person. He agrees to drink with him, having previously learned, not whether he is a Berliner or whether he composes music. The protagonist negatively answers the first … Read more
Lyrical novel – the largest work of the writer – is written in an epistolary form. The name of the protagonist – Hyperion – refers to the image of a titan, the father of the sun god Helios, whose mythological name means High-Go. It seems that the action of the novel, which is a sort … Read more
Leo Tolstoy Youth There is the sixteenth spring of Nikolay Irtenyev. He is preparing for the examinations to the university, overflowing with dreams and reflections on his future destiny. To clarify the purpose of life, Nikolai starts a separate notebook where he writes down the duties and rules necessary for moral improvement. In a passionate … Read more
Thomas Malory The Death of Arthur The King of England Uther Pendragon falls in love with Igraine, the wife of the Duke of Cornwall, with whom he is at war. The famous sorcerer and soothsayer Merlin promises to help the king to win Igreina, provided that the child gives it to him. Duke dies in … Read more
Mikhail spared his sister and never told her, but he himself knew what Egorsha had married because of her-to take her old grandfather to her, dumb, and to be a free Cossack himself. But she loves him – it’s worth talking about Egorsha, how her eyes will glisten, her face will flare up. But he … Read more
KM Stanyukovich Maksimka The Russian military steam clipper “Zabiyaka” quickly goes to the south. Sailors cleaned, washed, scrubbed and cleaned the deck: a military ship begins the day. Suddenly there was a loud, alarming cry from the sentry: “A man in the sea!”. All rushed to the deck and saw among the waves a fragment … Read more
“Hero of Our Time” – the most outstanding creation of Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov in prose. This novel is different story singularity. Each chapter is a complete story, reflecting one of the facets of the character’s character. But we will not consider the entire work, but only one part, more precisely, its brief content. “Maxim Maksimych” … Read more
“Acts of Rama” is an ancient Indian epic consisting of 7 books and about 24 thousand couplets-shlok; attributed to the legendary sage Valmiki Once the ruler of the kingdom of demons-rahshasas on the island of Lanka was a ten-headed Ravana. He received from Brahma the gift of invulnerability, thanks to which no one but a … Read more
Sotnikov and Rybak, who were given the task of finding products for the partisans, walked through the winter fields, trying not to catch sight of the Germans. Sotnikov did not feel at all important – he was tormented by a cough, he could hardly walk. Entering one of the villages, they found the elders’ house, … Read more
On February 28, 1936, on the third day after the military putsch, organized by a group of young nationalist officers, who were dissatisfied with a too liberal government, Guards Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama, unable to reconcile himself with the order of the emperor who condemned the uninvited defenders and ordered the suppression of the mutiny, made … Read more