The pseudo novella of the seventeenth century. reaches its perfection in “The Tale of Frol Skobeev.” Unlike the poor loser of The Tale of Shemyakin’s Court, Frol, a petty official (he is an area
Analytical abilities are not peculiar to every mind and are inaccessible to analysis. To this conclusion comes the Narrator, having met in Paris in the summer of 18 .. with some Auguste Dupin, a
Venice. At the house of Senator Brabantzio the Venetian nobleman Rodrigo, unrequitedly in love with the daughter of Senator Desdemona, reproaches his friend Iago for taking the rank of lieutenant from Othello, the noble
AM Remizov Cross-sister Peter Alekseevich Marakulin colleagues of his fun and carelessness infected. Sam – a narrow-chested, mustache with a thread, about thirty years old, but he felt almost twelve years old. Marakulin was
This Sunday Ryabov returns home unusually late, at 2 o’clock in the morning. His wife sleeps serenely because he is not one of those husbands whose morals are baked. However, he and the son
Heinrich Mann The loyal subject The central character of the novel Diederich Gesling was born in a German family of the middle bourgeois, owner of a paper mill in the city of Netzig. As
FA Iskander Protection of Chick Chick had a terrible trouble. A teacher of Russian Akaki Makedonovich said that he brought one of his parents to school. The teacher had a habit of writing grammar
Oscar Wilde The ideal husband The play takes place during the day in London, in the mansion of the couple of Chilterns and in the apartment of Lord Goring, in the early 1890’s. A
Anatole France Rise of the Angels The great Alexander Bussar d’Esparvieu, vice-president of the state council under the July government, left his heirs a three-story mansion and a rich library. René d’Esparvieux, a worthy
Ten noble gentlemen and ladies who went to the waters, stuck on the way back because of the autumn mudslides and attacks of the robbers. They find shelter in the monastery and wait for