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,
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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