VM Garshin the Night Poor master, listening to the ticking of the clock, thinks of suicide. Several voices struggle in it; the clearest “scourged him with certain, even beautiful phrases.” So he sits at 8 o’clock in the evening before he got hold of the suicide weapon – he stole a revolver from his doctor’s … Read more
To Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Overton, the captain of the rugby team at Cambridge College, is asking for help. Tomorrow the decisive match, and the leading player Godfrey Stonton disappeared. Yesterday the team arrived in London and stayed at the hotel. Godfrey was a little pale and complained of a headache. Soon a bearded stranger came … Read more
Ilf and Petrov Twelve chairs On Good Friday April 15, 1927 in the city of N death mother-in-law Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, the former leader of the nobility. Before her death, she informs him that in one of the chairs of the living room, the headset left in Stargorod, where they fled after the revolution, all … Read more
George Eliot Middlarch Sisters Dorothea and Celia, left without parents, lived in the house of their uncle-guardian, Mr. Brooke. The sisters were almost equally good-looking, but they differed in character: Dorothea was serious and devout, Celia – sweet and moderately frivolous. Frequent guests in the house of Mr. Brooke were two gentlemen who had a … Read more
The tale begins with a description of the cemetery on which Lisa’s girlfriend is buried. Starting from this picture, the author tells the sad story of a young peasant woman, who paid for her love. Once, selling lilies of the valley gathered in the forest, Lisa met a young nobleman, Erast. Her beauty, naturalness and … Read more
The Word of the Writer PP Bazhov is a famous Russian writer, creator of wonderful tales about life, everyday life, work, history of the Ural craftsmen. The factory workers, the miners of ores and gems, talented nuggets, who know how to process an ornamental stone, that it revives, blossoms, gives the world its stone symphony … Read more
The heroine of the book, a girl named Alice, begins her journey to the Land of Wonders unexpectedly for herself: Alice, razmylshaya from heat and idleness, suddenly noticed a rabbit, which in itself is not surprising; but this rabbit turned out to be not only speaking (which Alice was not surprised at that time), but … Read more
Oliver Twist was born in a workhouse. His mother had only one glance at him and died; before the boy was nine years old, he could not find out who his parents were. No kind word of affection, no kind affectionate glance has ever dawned on his dull infant years, he knew only hunger, beatings, … Read more
To the old woman Agafya Zhuravleva, the son Konstantin Ivanovich arrived. With his wife and daughter. To visit, relax. I drove in a taxi, and they dragged suitcases out of the trunk for a long time with their family. By the evening in the village they learned the details: he himself is a candidate, the … Read more
In the foreword the author says that he derives his principles from the very nature of things. The infinite variety of laws and morals is due not to arbitrary arbitrariness: private cases are subject to common principles, and the history of every nation follows from them as a consequence. It is useless to blame the … Read more