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 clerk or shenanigan, who trades in correspondence and drawing up legal papers and conducts his clients’ business), he persistently and by … Read more
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 descendant of an impoverished noble family, who astonished him at the first meeting with vast erudition and fresh imagination. Young people … Read more
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 Moor, the general in the Venetian service. Iago is justified: he himself hates the self-willed African because he, bypassing Iago, a … Read more
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 famous for his handwriting, the reports displayed a letter after the letter: he scribbles exactly as if he were beading down, … Read more
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 are exemplary, and the worker is beautiful. The economist, with a brilliance defended in twenty-seven candidate, is a very infrequent case, … Read more
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 a child, he was often sick, he was afraid of everything and especially of his father. His mother, Frau Gasling, also … Read more
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 rules in verse form, and the pupils had to learn this poem, and at the same time the rule. Akaki Makedonovich … Read more
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 party in the octagonal hall of the baronet of Sir Robert Chiltern, occupying the responsible post of Comrade Foreign Minister, is … Read more
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 grandson of the famous grandfather, added the precious collection to the extent of his strength. In 1895, he appointed Julien Sariette … Read more
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 the workers to build a bridge across the spilled river, which should take ten to twelve days. Thinking about how to … Read more