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 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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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