Monsieur de Renal, the mayor of the French town of Verrieres in the Franche-Comte district, a man who is smug and vain, informs his wife about the decision to take the tutor to the house. There is no special need for a tutor, just a local rich man, Mr. Valno, this vulgar screamer, always rivaling … Read more
Anna Howe writes to her friend Clarissa Garlow that in the world there is a lot of talk about a clash between James Garlow and Sir Robert Lovelace, ending with the wound of his older brother Clarissa. Anna asks to talk about the incident, and on behalf of her mother asks to send a copy … Read more
EA Boratynsky Eda The action of the poem takes place in Finland around 1807-1808. In the spring, at sunset, two people are talking in front of the hut: the young Finn, the “kind Ed” with “golden eyes” and “pale blue eyes” and the Russian “young hussar”, a guest in her house. They are surrounded by … Read more
JB Priestley Inspector came The play unfolds on the spring evening of 1912 in the northern part of the central counties of England, in the industrial town of Brumley, in the house of the Berliners. In a narrow family circle, the engagement of Sheila, the daughter of Arthur Beurling, a wealthy industrialist, is celebrated with … Read more
KF Meyer Jürg Enach At the time of the Thirty Years’ War in Graubünden, a century ago joined Valtellin, the head of the Catholic party, the influential patrician Pompeo Plant, was convicted for collusion with Austria-Spain. With the assistance of the young Protestant pastor Yurga Yonacha, the court sentences Plant to exile and deprives civil … Read more
Discovering the secret of the tragic death of Madame D’Espana and her daughter (Murders on Morgue Street), Auguste Dupin again plunges into her melancholy meditations. However, Dupin’s role in the drama on Morgue Street earned him the glory of the seer from the Parisian police, and the prefecture repeatedly tried to resort to his services … Read more
J. Boccaccio Fiametta This is a love story told by a hero named Fiametta, addressed primarily to women in love, who have a young lady looking for sympathy and understanding. The beautiful Fiametta, whose beauty captivated everyone, spent her life in a continuous feast; loving spouse, wealth, honor and respect – all this was given … Read more
NV Gogol Viy The most long-awaited event for the seminary is vacancies when bursaks (kazennokoshtnye seminarians) are dismissed to their homes. Groups they are sent from Kiev along the high road, earning livelihood with a spiritual hymn to well-to-do farms. Three bursaks: the theologian Freebies, the philosopher Homa Brutus and the rhetorician Tiberius Horobets, – … Read more
In inhuman circumstances, it is very difficult to maintain human dignity, this does not annoy everyone – especially in the face of death, when a spark of hope still flashes in the person. Vasily Bykov The beginning of the Patriotic War is a difficult, difficult topic. How to keep a picture of that tragic time, … Read more
Ardalon Borisovich Peredonov, a teacher of literature in the local gymnasium, constantly felt himself the subject of special attention of women. Still would! The State Counselor (fifth class in the table of ranks!), A man in juice, in fact, is not married. After all, Barbara what. Varvara in which case you can and poboku. Here … Read more
The Prankster-Monkey, Donkey, Goat and Crowd Mishka Have started to play Quartet. They got the notes, bass, viola, two violins And sat down on the meadow under the limes – Capture their art light. Struck in the bow, tear, but no sense. “Stand still, brothers, stop!” Cried the Monkey, “Wait, how can you go to … Read more
Larks belong to the family of Lark. These are chunky, small birds with a dense addition. Claw of the back finger – slightly curved, long and sharp. Strong and straight beak – medium length, with a slightly bent back. The wings are long and wide. Plumage is predominantly dull grayish – brown flowers. In appearance, … Read more
Seven-year-old Alka lives in a new city, built on the site of the village. Near the city is a large ravine, in which dandelions grow. Once the neighbor girl decided to play with Alka and put dandelions in his mouth. Alka hit her, for which he was punished by his elder sister Marina. Most of … Read more
AP Chekhov The Bishop Under the Palm Sunday, in early April, His Eminence Peter serves the All-Night Vigil. The church is full of people, the monastic choir sings. The bishop is unwell for three days, he feels heaviness and fatigue. Precisely in a dream or delirium, it seems to him that his mother came to … Read more
The work, based on the Byzantine heroic epos, begins with a story about how the Arabian king Amir kidnaps his wife a beautiful maid of the royal family from the “Greek land.” Her brothers, after learning about the abduction, rush in pursuit of Amir in the Saracen land, intending to kill him. When the brothers … Read more
It was not lucky for a small Scottish setter-gordon to be born with an outrageous appearance for his breed. In no way did he meet the standards, according to which breeders judge the breed of a dog. A descendant of almost royal dog blood, Beam became an annoying misunderstanding for the breeder. He would inevitably … Read more
Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky was the son of Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodich and Princess Feodosia (daughter of Mstislav Udalogo). He was born on May 13, 1221. It is known that in 1228 and 1230, his father left the brothers Alexander and Fyodor to reign in Novgorod. But only in 1236 the period of the long reign of … Read more
In the year when Grand Prince Ivan III ordered the erection of the Moscow Kremlin, the prince Nikita, who owned the city Podzol in the upper Volga, planned to build his Kremlin better than the tsarist. And in the last century opposite the Kremlin, on the other side of the hill, there appeared the buildings … Read more
Protopop Avvakum wrote the life with the blessing of the monk Epiphanius, his spiritual father. A solar eclipse is a sign of God’s wrath. In Russia there was a solar eclipse in 1654, because then Patriarch Nikon distorted faith. Fourteen years later, a new eclipse occurred. At this time, Habakkuk and his supporters were shaved … Read more
VN Voinovich Moscow 2042 The Russian emigrant writer Vitaly Kartsev who lived in Munich in June 1982 had the opportunity to be in Moscow in 2042. Preparing for the trip, Kartsev met his classmate Leszek Bukashev. Bukashev made a career in the USSR along the lines of the KGB. It seemed that the meeting was … Read more
Jean Racine Phaedra Ippolit, the son of the Athenian King Theseus, goes in search of his father, who has been traveling for six months. Ippolit is the son of the Amazon. The new wife of Theseus Fedra disliked him, as everyone thinks, and he wants to leave Athens. Phaedra is also sick with an incomprehensible … Read more
THE STORY ABOUT THE ERUSLAN LAZAREVICH. AP called in manuscripts in different ways ( “Tale about a glorious heroes Uruslane Zalazoreviche,” “The Tale of the glorious full and strong Vityaz Eruslane Lazarevic and his courage and unimaginable beauty princess Anastasia Vahromeevny”, “History of the glorious and strong Vityaz Yeruslan Lazarevich “), is a record of … Read more
Norway, 50-ies. Ten years have passed since the end of the Second World War, abruptly changed the fate of many Norwegians. Heroes of the novel – economist Ergen Bremer, painter Andreas Dühring, journalist Jens Tofte and translator Klaus Tangen – participated in the Resistance movement, “fought for something great and noble”, risked their lives, matured … Read more
This happened in those early times when steppe peoples often attacked Kievan Rus. Some of them, Pechenegs, once came to Belgorod, but they could not seize the attack. They then surrounded the city and took a siege. The state of siege continued for a long time. There was a famine. Weakened people came to such … Read more
March 14, 1828 a cannon shot from the Peter and Paul Fortress residents of the capital were informed about the conclusion of peace with Persia. A treatise on peace was brought from the main apartment of the Russian army in Tehran by collegiate adviser Griboyedov. At the reception at the Emperor Griboyedov is awarded the … Read more
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol’s Petersburg Stories is a cycle of amazing works. They carry in themselves the philosophical problem of choice and moral values. What are the “Petersburg Stories”? The main theme is the image of a small man, oppressed by life, devastated by his loneliness. Among other works of Russian classical literature, the real highlight … Read more
ETA. A. Hoffman. The everyday views of Koth Murra In preparation for the publication of the notes of Murra, the descendant of the celebrated Ginz von Ginzenfeld (better known to the world as the Cat in Boots), the publishers drew attention to the presence in the manuscript of apparently extraneous fragments – excerpts from a … Read more
The third quarter of the XIX century, the era of the Second Empire, Paris. In the poorly furnished room is an old woman – Mademoiselle de Varandale. Near the bed on her knees stands her maid – Germini Laserte. Rejoicing at the recovery of the hostess, the servant embarks on memories – the young lady … Read more
Why does the whale eat only small fishes When the whale ate all the fish, a small cunning fish described to him the whole charm of a man’s snack and told him where to find it, but warned that the person was a restless creature. Kit swallowed the sailor along with his raft and suspenders. … Read more
VA Kaverin Before the mirror Lisa Turaeva and Kostya Karnovsky met at the gymnasium ball. They danced together all evening, and then decided to correspond. Fate gave them very few meetings, so the long, from 1910 to 1932, correspondence became an important part of their life. Lisa’s mother died long ago, her father, a regimental … Read more
“Borodino” – a work dedicated to the historical events of the war of 1812. In this poem, the story of the war is entrusted to the old soldier. Lermontov was able to show the people’s view of the war. And his lyrical hero – a soldier – speaks with a common language, with characteristic proverbs … Read more
As expected, the graduation party was opened with solemn speeches. In the gym, on the floor below, it was audible – the tables moved, the last preparations were made for the banquet. And the former tenth-formers looked no longer schooly now: girls in fashionable dresses that emphasize mature reliefs, the guys are indecently pressed, in … Read more
AP Chekhov My Life The story is from the first person. A narrator named Misail Poloznev, along with his father-architect and sister, Cleopatra, live in a provincial town. Their mother died. Father raised children in severity and, when they became adults, continues to demand complete submission. He succeeds in this with Cleopatra, but Misail came … Read more
In the rich estate of Kalez, his sixty-eight-year-old master, a successful lawyer in the recent past, is slowly dying from a chest frog. His family is looking forward to its end. He himself writes about this in a letter-diary, which he addresses to his wife and in which he sums up his life. As a … Read more
The narrator becomes ill. He is given a ticket to the southern sanatorium. For some time he wanders along the embankment “with the joy of the discoverer,” and neither mass idleness nor the monotonous sound of the sea irritates him. But after a week the narrator begins to miss something. The sea, in the noise … Read more
JR R. Fowles The Magus Nicholas Erfa was born in 1927 in the family of a brigadier general; after a brief service in the army in 1948, he entered Oxford, and a year later his parents were killed in a plane crash. He was left alone, with a small but independent annual income, bought a … Read more
William Shakespeare King Henry IV Part one The source of the plot were several anonymous plays and the chronicles of Hollshed, with whom, however, Shakespeare treated quite freely. The plays about the reign of Henry IV form, as it were, the middle part of the tetralogy, the beginning of which is “Richard II”, and the … Read more
The play takes place in three “forest cantons” – Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden, which, united in 1291, formed the basis of the Swiss Union in the struggle against the Austrian domination of the Habsburgs. It is hard for ordinary people who suffer from arbitrariness of the governors of the Austrian emperor – fohts. In the … Read more
Pierre Corneille Cinna Emilia owns a passionate desire to avenge Augusta for the death of her father, Kai Thorania, educator of the future emperor who was executed by him in the time of the triumvirate. As a revengeer, she sees her lover, Cinna; no matter how painful Emilia is to realize that, raising her hand … Read more
Summer noon. Two young philosophers, Nikanor Zubar and Koronat Khmara, having studied for ten years in the Seminary of Poltava and “having exhausted all the fount of wisdom in that temple,” make their way home through the dense forest. The storm makes them seek refuge, and they go out on a tent whose owners turn … Read more
Danish King Christian II – a fairly bright personality in the history of Scandinavia. He ruled Denmark and Norway in 1513-1523. and Sweden in 1520-1523, another nine years struggled for power, allowed in 1532 to deceive luring himself into Denmark allegedly for negotiations, was captured and after that another twenty-seven years spent in custody in … Read more
NS Leskov Warrior The lace-maker Domna Platonovna, well-known to the storyteller, “has the most immense and versatile acquaintance” and is sure that she owes this to one simplicity and “goodness”. People, in the opinion of Domna Platonovna, are mean and generally “bastard,” and one can not believe anyone, which is confirmed by the frequent cases … Read more
In one of the cities of Italy ruled by the old peace-loving Dook, who is the patron of the sciences and arts. Dook is so kind that his people are not at all afraid, and therefore justice in the Italian city is dozing. Long Dook reflects on how to fix this problem, and, finally, decides … Read more
The main events take place in New York in the sixties of our century. Black young and talented musician Rufus met with the southern Leona. A woman has a difficult life, her husband left her, taking away her child. The most difficult was the inaction of relatives who did not wish to help her at … Read more
Three friends: George, Harris and Jay are planning to take an amusing boat trip up the Thames. They intend to have a great time, relax from London with its unhealthy climate and merge with nature. Gathering their last much longer than they originally expected, because every time with great effort on the part of young … Read more
But all that she does for him in this direction, in his own words, is lost work. The guy with his beloved arrived in Paris. Leo Nikolayevich thick in confession, the author’s own research is described subtly and intelligibly, Love, respect, sincere frankness were the creators of my celebration, depicts the genre of his meeting … Read more
Mishka Pryaslin did not have long to live at home. From autumn to spring – on logging, then rafting, then suffering, then again the forest. And how will appear in Pekashina – women are piled: this fix the roof, then lift the door. There are no peasants in Pekashino. This time, as always, houses were … Read more
B. Gracian Criticon In his address to the reader, the author says that, while creating his work, he was guided by the fact that he liked most of all the works of Plutarch, Apuleius, Aesop, Homer or Barkley. Trying to combine such different properties in one text, Gracian begins his novel, consisting of the main … Read more
On the desert steppe along the railway line, under the sky, in which the Ural mountain range emerges with heavy cloudy delirium, there is a woman. There are tears in her eyes, it becomes more difficult to breathe. At the dwarf kilometer pillar, she stops, moving her lips, repeats the figure that appears on the … Read more
The trilogy covers the period from 1310 to 1349, when the plague devastated Europe reached Norway. Father Christine came from a Swedish family, known as the Sons of Lagman. Already three generations of this family lived in Norway, but at times they were reminded that they were strangers here. At the age of eighteen, Laurence, … Read more