Kai Munk Nils Ebbesen Nils Ebbesen, leader of the Dutch peasants who rebelled against the Holstein rule (Holstein – the Russian name of the historic German province of Hollytein, adjacent to Denmark), died in the battle of Skanderborg on November 2, 1340. However, he was glorified by another, which occurred earlier in the spring of … Read more
In the village house of Darya Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, a former beauty and a capital lioness who, far from civilization, still organizes her salon, awaits a baron, an erudite and a connoisseur of philosophy who promised to acquaint her with her scientific research. Lasunskaya takes the conversation with the audience. This … Read more
ORPHEUS Opera in three acts Libretto by R. Calzabigi and de Molina Characters: Orpheus Eurydice Amur Tenor (mezzo soprano) Soprano Soprano Shepherds, cowherds, furies, hellish spirits, blissful shadows. The plot is borrowed from the ancient myth. PLOT In the beautiful secluded grove of laurels and cypresses – the tomb of Eurydice. Orpheus laments his girlfriend. … Read more
Osip Ivanovich Dymov, titular counselor and doctor of thirty-one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: an intern and a draftor. From nine o’clock in the morning until noon he takes the sick, then goes to open the corpses. But his income is barely enough to cover the costs of his wife – … Read more
Analytical abilities are not peculiar to every mind and are inaccessible to analysis. To this conclusion comes the Narrator, having met in Paris in the summer of 1818 with a certain Auguste Dupin, a descendant of an impoverished noble family, who astonished him at the first meeting with extensive erudition and fresh imagination. Young people … Read more
Joyce Carey Out of love for one’s neighbor England, 1990 – 1920’s. The history of Chester Nimmo, a man who was only one step away from the post of prime minister of England, is told by his ex-wife. Nina Woodville gets acquainted with Chester when he serves as a clerk in an office for the … Read more
The memo book describes the first 10 years of the child’s life, which he spent in Ufa and the villages in the Orenburg province. The narrator reproduced the perception of children, for which everything is absolutely new and all equally important, events he does not divide into secondary and main: therefore in this book there … Read more
Achilles Tatiye Leucippa and Clitophon In the Phoenician city of Sidon the author meets a young man who tells him an unusual story of his love. A native of Tire, the young man Clitophon was already preparing to marry Kadligon – his daughter’s daughter from a second marriage. But here from the city of Byzantium … Read more
Peace is not for Robinson, he hardly hangs out in England for several years: thoughts about the island are haunted him day and night. His wife’s age and sensible speeches keep him for the time being. He even buys a farm, intends to engage in rural labor, to which he is so accustomed. The death … Read more
Novella is a different version of the same event, expressed by different people. The woodcutter told during the interrogation that he had found the corpse of a man in a grove under a mountain, where bamboo grows interspersed with young cryptomeria. The man was lying on his back, he had a light blue suikan, in … Read more