AN Tolstoy’s Golden Key, or The Adventures of Pinocchio Once upon a time in a small town on the shores of the Mediterranean, the carpenter Giuseppe gives his friend Carlo the organ-grinder a talking
The Tsar leaves, and during his absence the Tsarina had a daughter. But the queen dies, as soon as her husband returns. The king grieves for a long time, but a year passes, and
In the introductory essay to the novel tells of the author’s native city – Salem, his ancestors – puritan fanatics, his work in the Seyme customs and the people he had to face there.
In the first short chapter, the two parts are divided by sharpness, they are given the most expressive strokes of Russian life: they describe foolishness and holy fools, but also Russian craftsmen and artisans.
The old man is fishing alone in the sea. For eighty-four days, he has not yet caught a single fish. In the first forty days a boy was fishing with him. Then the parents
The time of the novel is 1797-1812, fifteen years after the failed uprising of Tadeusz Kosciuszko and the third partition of Poland between Prussia, Austria and Russia. In the center of the narrative is
December 24, the house of the Stahlbaum Advisor of Medicine. Everyone is getting ready for Christmas, and the children – Fritz and Marie – are guessing what this time they will be presented as
The holy Mother of God wanted to pray to God, so that the archangel Michael told her about the heavenly and earthly flour. Then Michael came down from heaven and with him four hundred
If you go from Porto-Vecchio to the depths of Corsica, you can go to the vast thickets of poppies – the homeland of shepherds and anyone who is at odds with justice. Corsican farmers
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice “Remember, if our sorrows stem from Pride and Prejudice, then we are also exempt from them from Pride and Prejudice, for good and evil are so wonderfully balanced in