A small boy, Yevseika, was fishing on the beach. With boredom fell asleep and fell into the water. He was not scared. Dived and pulled the bottom. Looks around – good: “Creeping, not hurrying, the scarlet starfish, the moustached lobsters walk solidly along the rocks, the crab moves sideways, sideways, as if large sea cherries … Read more
The saga begins with a story about the parents of the main characters. Thorstein, the son of Aegil and the grandson of Scallagrim, lived in the Gorodische. He was a clever and decent man, everyone loved him. Once he sheltered one Norwegian. He was very interested in dreams. Thorstein dreamed that on the roof of … Read more
Knut Hamsun Victoria The action takes place in the modern writer of Norway. From time to time, when a walk or a game is started, the children of the owner of the manor estate, which the people called the Castle, Victoria and Dietlef, invite the son of the miller’s neighbor, Johannes, to join them. The … Read more
Rainy November evening in 186 * in St. Petersburg Mary Mikhailovna – twenty-three-year-old rich widow of the Guards adjutant – begins to keep an intimate diary to understand the reasons for his constantly bad mood. It turns out that she never loved her husband, that she is bored with her son, a three-year-old “sour” Vodka, … Read more
Menander of Brusga This comedy in translation has another name – “The misanthrope”. Her main character, the peasant Kemmon, at the end of his life, became a fan of people and hated the whole world. However, he was probably obese after birth. Because his wife abandoned him for his bad temper. Kemon lives in the … Read more
O. de Balzac The brilliance and poverty of the courtesans In 1824, at a ball in the Opera appears a dazzlingly handsome young man on arm with a charming lady. To everyone’s amazement, Lucien Chardin somehow managed to get out of the mud, and the king, by his decree, returned the name of his ancestors … Read more
F. Grilpartser The greatness and fall of King Ottokar In the Prague Castle of the King of Bohemia, Přemysl Ottokar, confusion reigns among his courtiers. Ottokar dissolves the marriage with his wife Margarita of Austria, the widow of the German Emperor Heinrich von Hohenstaufen. The king concluded this marriage for reasons of profit, in order … Read more
Xuanzang from childhood was ordained a monk, and possessed only one desire: to comprehend the great teaching of the Buddha. The most gracious goddess Guanyin long ago, at the behest of the Buddha, sought a man who could go for sacred books and bring them to China. Such a man turned out to be a … Read more
William Congreve Do It in the Light “So do in the world” – the last of four comedies, written by William Kongrig, the most famous of the galaxy of English playwrights of the Restoration. And although the incomparably greater popularity (both during the life of the author and subsequently), as well as a much greater … Read more
The action takes place in Moscow and unfolds in several time frames: the mid-1930s, the second half of the 1940s, the early 1970s. The scientist, literary critic Vadim Aleksandrovich Glebov, who has agreed in the furniture store to buy an antique table, comes there and in search of the person he needs comes across his … Read more