Francis Morgan, the wealthy heir of the owner of large enterprises, Richard Henry Morgan, thinks in lazy idleness what to do. At this time, the former rival of the late RG Morgan in exchange
On a beautiful summer day, the leaves on the tree whispered with marshmallows. Casting a shadow on the ground, they were adorned in every possible way and asked if the winds agreed with the
R. E. Raspe The Adventures of Baron Munchausen A small old man with a big nose sits by the fireplace and talks about his incredible adventures, convincing listeners that these stories are the truth.
In Petrograd Crocodile walks the streets. He smokes cigarettes and speaks Turkish. And people go after him, scoff, tease and offend. And then the dog also expresses his contempt for him – he bites
Norway early XX century. The hero – Wilfred Sagen, the Little Lord, grows up in the hypocritical atmosphere of a rich bourgeois family. Outstanding nature of a fourteen-year-old boy is disgusted by the pretense
The tragedy of William Shakespeare “Hamlet” was written in 1600 – 1601 years and is one of the most famous works of world literature. The plot of the tragedy is based on the legend
A. and B. Strugatsky It’s hard to be a god The action takes place in the distant future on one of the habitable planets, the level of development of civilization which corresponds to the
Maxim Gorky The Life of Klim Samgin In the house of an intelligent Narodnik Ivan Akimovich Samgin, a son was born, to whom his father decided to give an “unusual” peasant name to Klim.
The book of Boris Polevoy “The Story of a Real Man” was written in 1946. The prototype of the protagonist of the work was a real historical character – the hero of the USSR,
JL Borges World history of baseness In the series “World history of baseness” collected stories about the lives of murderers, scammers, pirates. Among them, “Hakim of Merv, a masked dyer,” Hakim, who was later