“Conscience was lost all of a sudden, almost instantly!” Even yesterday this annoying prizhivalka flashed before my eyes, and seemed to be excited imagination, and all of a sudden nothing! ” Without conscience, people began to live more easily, they “hastened to take advantage of the fruits of this freedom.” Robbery and robbery began, people … Read more
Thomas Mann Doctor Faustus The story is conducted on behalf of Ph. D. Serenus Tzeitblom. Born in 1883, he graduated from the gymnasium of the town of Kaisersaherna, then the university, becomes a teacher of classical languages and acquires a family. Adrian Leverkun is two years younger. Early childhood he spends in the parental estate, … Read more
G. Kh. Andersen Mother of God Mother was about to give her cold son a cup of tea. An old man looked in, and always had a fairy tale ready for him. When a fairy tale came to the old man suddenly, branches of an elder stood out from under the lid of the kettle, … Read more
There is an action in the German duchy of Württemberg, in the XVIII century. The dowry banker of the Duke of Eberhard-Ludwig and Countess von Würben Isaac Simon Landauer, an influential and wealthy man, observes the movements of the career of financier Josef Süss Oppenheimer. Landauer likes the business qualities of Suess, his enterprise and … Read more
VF Odoevsky Sylphide My friend Platon Mikhailovich decided to move to the village. He settled in the house of the late uncle and for the first time was completely blissful. From one kind of huge village uncle’s armchairs, in which it is possible to drown, the spleen has almost passed. To admit, I was surprised … Read more
THE SNOWBOY (Spring Tale) Opera in four acts with a prologue Libretto by NA Rimsky-Korsakov Characters: King Berendey Bermyat, neighbor boyar Spring-red Santa Claus Girl Snow Maiden Bobyl Bakula Bobylikha, his wife Lel, the shepherd Kupava is a young girl, the daughter of a rich slave woman Mizgir, a trade visitor from Berendeyev’s village The … Read more
V. V. Veresaev In the impasse Black Sea. Crimea. The white waves are rolling under the very terrace of a cozy house with a tiled roof and green shutters. Here in the cottage settlement of Armatluk, near Koktebel, the old zemsky doctor Ivan Ilyich Sarganov lives along with his wife and daughter. A tall, thin, … Read more
SCENE ONE Don Guan and Leporello Horsemen reached Madrid and waited for darkness to make their way into the city unrecognized. Don Guan boastfully declares: What a misfortune, even if they find out. Only would not meet me the king himself. But however, I’m not afraid of anyone in Madrit. He was tired of exile, … Read more
NN Nosov Blot Boy Fedya Rybkin liked to make the whole class laugh, it was even a habit. Once he fought with Grisha Kopeikin because of the bottle of carcass. And accidentally one drop fell on Fedya’s forehead. He was angry at first, but when he saw that all the guys were laughing, he decided … Read more
Emile Zola The womb of Paris Florent returned to Paris, where seven years ago, in December 1851, after barricade fights in the night city, he was sent into exile, to the hell of Cayenne. He was taken only for the fact that he, like a lost man, wandered around the city at night and his … Read more