Early spring. The end of the century. In Russia there is a train. In the car there is a lively conversation; merchant, clerk, attorney, smoking lady and other passengers argue about the women’s question, about marriage and free love. Only love covers marriage, says the smoking lady. Here, in the middle of her speech, a … Read more
Brief insight At the core of this book is the story of the author’s two “Dads” – his father, a classical public servant and the best friend of his father, “the richest man in Hawaii,” according to Kiyosaki himself. The book is a story about how the life experience of these two, such different people, … Read more
The author hears Chopin’s funeral march and the whisper of a warm shower in the ivy. She dreams of youth, his passing cup. She is waiting for the person with whom she is destined to deserve such that the Twentieth Century will be embarrassed. But instead of the one she was waiting for, on New … Read more
AP Gaidar Timur and his team Colonel Aleksandrov for three months at the front. He sends a telegram to his daughter in Moscow, invites them to spend the rest of the summer at the dacha. The eldest, eighteen-year-old Olga, goes there with things, leaving the thirteen-year-old Zhenya to clean the apartment. Olga is an engineer, … Read more
The scene of the play is a wretched outskirts of New Orleans; in the very atmosphere of this place, according to the remark of Williams, there is something “lost, spoiled.” It is here that the tram with the symbolic name “Desire” is brought by Blanche DuBois, who, after a long chain of failures, adversities, compromises … Read more
Daniel Defoe Joy and grief of the famous Moll Flanders. In everyday life, this work is called Defoe shortly: “Moll Flanders”, and the title subtitle is even longer: “(…), who was twelve years old, five times married, twelve years old thief, eight years of exile in Virginia, but at the end of her life became … Read more
May 5, 1838 a young woman throws a newborn girl into the house of Prince Dmitry Shadursky. The thirty-eight-year-old prince is little surprised at the appearance of the foundling; knowing the way of life of the prince, does not see anything strange in this, and his wife Tatyana Lvovna. Shadursky decides to get rid of … Read more
How much charming enchantment in “Tales of Uncle Remus”! No wonder the 16-year-old teenager Joel Harris (1848-1908) was heard by the stories that blacks in the kitchen told to pass the time and have fun. He then worked as a “boy on parcels” on a plantation for shelter and bread, and in the evenings absorbed … Read more
AA Voznesensky Perhaps! “But here I must confide to your Excellency the confession of my private adventures.” The beautiful Konceptzia multiplied every day to me politeness… which ended in the fact that she gave me her hand… ” Letter N. N. Rezanova N. Rumyantseva June 17, 1806 . (… TsGIA, £ 13, 1, d 687) … Read more
In Paris, at the smoldering fish-shop, next to the Cemetery of Innocents, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born. His mother wants to get rid of the unwanted child, but her idea is revealed, and she is accused of infanticide and executed, and the baby is transferred to the care of the monastery and assigned to him a … Read more