AT Tvardovsky Vasily Terkin In the infantry company – a new guy, Vasily Terkin. He is fighting for the second time in his lifetime (the first war is Finnish). Vasily does not climb into his pocket for a word, the consumer is good. In general, “the guy though where”. Terkin remembers how he, in a … Read more
On the twenty-fifth of March, a St. Petersburg barber Ivan Yakovlevich discovers a nose in a freshly baked bread. Ivan Yakovlevich with surprise learns that the nose belongs to one of his clients, collegiate assessor Kovalev. The barber tries to get rid of the nose: throws it out, but he is constantly indicated that he … Read more
AP Chekhov The Seagull The action takes place in the estate of Petr Nikolaevich Sorin. His sister, Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina, is an actress, she is on his estate with her son, Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev, and Boris Alekseevich Trigorin, a novelist, quite famous, although he is not yet forty. They speak of him as a clever, … Read more
IA Bunin Net Monday They met in December, by chance. When he got to Andrei Bely’s lecture, he roared and laughed that she, who happened to be in the armchair next to her and at first looked at him with some perplexity, also laughed. Now every evening he went to her apartment, which she had … Read more
Herbert Wells Country of the Blind There was a legend about a mysterious mountain valley in the middle of the Ecuadorian Andes, separated from the outside world after the eruption of the volcano. It was called the country of the blind. In the valley, that was all that a man could wish, and the settlers … Read more
Herbert Wells Kingdom of ants Captain Gerillo was ordered to help the inhabitants of Badam to fight the invasion of ants. The captain suspected that the authorities simply mock him. He was a Creole and had a purely Portuguese notion of etiquette and discipline. He trusted only Holroyd and Lancashire, a young engineer on the … Read more
A. Führtier The philistine novel The publisher warns the reader that this book is written not so much for entertainment as for the edifying purpose. The author promises to tell without ceremony a few love stories that happened to people who can not be called heroes, because they do not command armies, they do not … Read more
Denis is a poet, and in England, during the war, he published a book of poetry, which was a great success. Young people begin to meet, and in a month and a half they deal with betrothal. Mr. Joyboi, representing the embodiment of the most perfect professional manners and enjoying romantic success among the girls … Read more
The county town of Dudary in Siberia. 20-ies. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the participant of the described events, which he recalls many years later. The author of the narrative, which has never been named after a story, works in the criminal investigation department along with his friend Benjamin Malyshev, whose position is … Read more
Irwin Shaw The Beggar, The Thief The events of the novel take place in 1968 – 1972. Through the whole novel, excerpts from the diary of Billy Abbott pass by a refrain. He watches from outside the family Djordakhov. His reasoning, as a rule, is extremely cynical. Part one Journalist Alexander Hubbel and his wife … Read more