The action takes place in medieval France, amidst wars and complex court intrigues, the French King Louis XI, an intelligent and subtle politician, is fighting the mighty European rulers for the prosperity of France. Unprincipled and cautious Louis is the antipode of Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, the first enemy of the French … Read more
New York, Brooklyn, 1947. The novice writer Stingo, on whose behalf the narrative is based, set out to conquer literary America. However, while he has nothing to boast about. The work of a reviewer in a fairly large publishing house proves to be short, it is not possible to make useful literary acquaintances, and the … Read more
Fanciful Simplicius Simplicissimus. That is: a lengthy, unintentional and very memorable biography of some simply conscience, outlandish and rare vagabond or a vagant named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchsheim The action takes place in Europe during the Thirty Years’ War. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the protagonist. In a village in Shpesert, a boy … Read more
Cold blizzard winter. In the gateway a dog is killed by the cold and hunger, to which the cook of one of the Moscow dining rooms also boiled with boiling water. He whines, howls and at the same time reflects on life. Suffers from the fact that it is not summer and can not be … Read more
Maxim Gorky Foma Gordeyev The story takes place in the city on the Volga, in the late XIX – early XX centuries. Sixty years ago, on one of the barges, the wealthy merchant Zaev was served by the Ignat Gordeyev. Strong, handsome and intelligent, he was one of those people who do not think about … Read more
Turning to his children and to all who will ever read his message, Prince Vladimir Monomakh urges them to have, first of all, the fear of God in their hearts and do good, bearing in mind that the days of man on earth are fleeting and terrible to die without repenting of their sins. The … Read more
The French Balka called part of the fertile river valley twenty miles southeast of Jefferson, the district of Joknapatofa, Mississippi. Once it was a colossal plantation, the remains of which – the box of a huge house, the ruined stables and barracks for slaves, overgrown gardens – were now called the estate of the Old … Read more
K. Paustovsky – the story “Meshcherskaya side.” Nature for K. Paustovsky is not only beautiful pictures of fields, hills, rivers and lakes, blue skies in his works. This is an expression of love for our native land, for Russian nature. The sense of nature for Paustovsky is an integral element of the Motherland’s feeling, it … Read more
IS Turgenev Asya NN, a middle-aged man of the world, recalls the story that happened when he was about twenty-five years old. NN then traveled without a purpose and without a plan and on his way stopped in a quiet German town of N. Once NN, coming to a student’s party, met in a crowd … Read more
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born January 27, 1836 in Lemberg (then the name of Lviv) in the family of the Chief of Police of the Kingdom of Galicia and Volodymyr Leopold Zaher. The ancestors of his father were the Spaniards, who settled in Prague in the 16th century, and the Bohemian Germans. His mother, Charlotte, … Read more