RT Kireev Winner This Sunday Ryabov returns home unusually late, at 2 o’clock in the morning. His wife sleeps serenely because he is not one of those husbands whose morals are baked. However, he and the son are exemplary, and the worker is beautiful. The economist, with a brilliance defended in twenty-seven candidate, is a … Read more
Robinson is the third son in the family. He dreamed of sea voyages, and his parents did not want to listen. But all the same he sailed from Gulya to London on the ship of his friend’s father on September 1, 1651. But on the very first day there was a remorse caused by the … Read more
A little old man with a big nose sits by the fireplace and talks about his incredible adventures, convincing listeners that the stories are the truth. Being in winter in Russia, the Baron fell asleep right in the open field, tying his horse to a small column. Waking up, M. saw that he was in … Read more
Childhood of the hero took place in the small town of Knyazhye-Vieno of the South-Western Territory. Vasya – that was the name of the boy – was the son of a city judge. The child grew, “like a wild tree in the field”: the mother died when the son was only six years old, and … Read more
The artist Ageev lived in a hotel in the northern city, came here to write fishermen. It was autumn. Above the city, over low brown clouds, drifting clouds from the west over the gray-brown storm-drenched forests, it started to drizzle ten times a day, and the lake rose above the city with a leaden wall. … Read more
Wilhelm Hauf Cold Heart The poor coal miner from the Black Forest, Peter Munch, “a small clever man”, began to be uneasy with the low-profit and, it seems, not at all an honorable craft inherited from his father. However, from all ideas, when suddenly he got a lot of money, he did not like any … Read more
The first, as usual, the news of the return Lavretzky brought in the house of the Kalitins Gedeonovsky. Maria Dmitrievna, the widow of the former provincial prosecutor, who, in her fifty years, preserved a certain pleasantness in her features, favors him, and her house is from the most pleasant in the city of O… But … Read more
In the Odessa harbor the narrator gets acquainted with the Georgian prince Shakro Ptadze. Fooled comrade, he was left without a livelihood. The narrator invites the Georgian to go with him to Crimea on foot. He promises Shakro that he will find him a fellow traveler to Tiflis, or he personally will go with him. … Read more
The action takes place in 1920-1930-ies. In Great Britain. In a small mining town Blanelli comes a young doctor Andrew Manson – a new assistant doctor, Dr. Page. When he arrives, he learns that his cartridge is paralyzed and will have to carry a double load. The wife of Page Blodewa, an ungrateful and greedy … Read more
In the evening, we went with Ermolai to hunt woodcocks. Yermolai is a hunter, a man of about 45, tall, thin, with a long nose, narrow forehead, gray eyes and wide, mocking lips. All the year round he walked in a caftan of German cut and blue trousers. Yermolay had an old flintlock and a … Read more
The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in Switzerland, in a tuberculosis sanatorium located near Davos. The title of the novel evokes associations with the mountain Gerzelberg, where, according to legend, Minnesinger Tannhäuser spent seven years in captivity with the goddess Venus. The hero of the novel, a young German named … Read more
V. Mayakovsky About this The theme, about which the poet wants to speak, is sung many times. He himself circled in her poetic squirrel and wants to spin again. This theme can even push a cripple to the paper, and its song will ripple in the sun. In this subject, truth and beauty are hidden. … Read more
In the Southwest of Ukraine, in the family of the rich country landowners Popelskikh, a blind boy is born. At first no one notices his blindness, only his mother guesses this by the strange expression of Petrusya’s face. Doctors confirm the terrible guess. Father Peter – a good-natured man, but rather indifferent to everything, except … Read more
In Bunin’s story “Cricket”, the author reveals the beauty of the human soul, inherent in even the most inconspicuous man, such as the protagonist, Ilya Kapitonov, nicknamed Cricket. Cricket is a saddler in the master’s house, in the story he is compared with another saddler, Vasily, and in everything seems worse than a comrade. He … Read more
Chapter first Katerina Lvovna was very attractive by appearance, a woman of the twenty-fourth year. The girl was married to a wealthy merchant Izmailov. Their family consisted of the widowed father-in-law of Boris Timofeevich, the husband of Katerina Zinovy Borisovich and Katerina Lvovna herself. Children of the couple were not. Boredom in the merchant’s house … Read more
Vishakhadatta Signet of the Rakshasa The renowned expert on the art of Chanakya’s policy, or Kaugilia, was deposed in Pataliputra, the capital of the country of Magadha, the last king of the Nand dynasty, and after his murder he placed his pupil Chandragupta Mauryu on the throne. However, the faithful minister of Nanda Rakshasa managed … Read more
The narrator (the narrative is a first-person narrator) remembers how six or seven years ago he lived in Belokurov’s estate in one of the counties of the T-g province. The owner “got up very early, walked in a podevke, in the evenings he drank beer and all complained to me that he did not find … Read more
About the work In 1870, after a series of publications of separate chapters, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The History of a City appeared. This event received a wide public response – the writer was accused of ridiculing the Russian people and denigrating the facts of Russian history. The genre of the work is a satirical story, exposing … Read more
Hilary Birdou is forty-one years old. He works “in the state department – no matter what”, in the bureaucratic hierarchy, except for the typist and clerk, stands on the lowest step; lives in an uncomfortable apartment, which serves him only as a “place for sleeping,” without trying to equip it or even just how to … Read more
A. A. Fadeev Young Guard Under the scorching sun of July 1942, they walked along the Donetsk steppe with their carts, artillery, tanks, the retreating units of the Red Army, children’s homes and gardens, cattle, trucks, refugees… They crossed Donetsk no longer had time: the parts of the German army came to the river. And … Read more
1570, the time of civil wars in France. The leaders of the warring parties also died. There is a peace in Saint-Germain, and to secure the princess Margaret must marry Henry of Navarre, which outrages both countries. King Henry of Navarre explains that their marriage is political and, despite their feelings for others, they must … Read more
MIKHAIL IVANOVICH GLAIN 1804-1857 Glinka has an outstanding historical role in Russian classical music. Summarizing the achievements of his predecessors, he laid the foundations of the national musical style, discovered, like Pushkin in literature, the classical period in the history of Russian music. Creativity Glinka reflected the advanced aspirations of time. With freedom-loving poetry of … Read more
E. Burgess Clockwork Orange Before you, blin, is nothing like a society of the future, and your humble narrator, shorty Alex, now will tell you in which kal he is here vliapalsia. We sat, as always, in the milk bar “Korova”, where the milk is served plus, we also call it “milk with knives”, that … Read more
In the fall of 1840, eighteen-year-old Frederick Moreau returned to the home town of Nogent-on-the-Seine. He had already received a bachelor’s degree and soon had to go to Paris to study law. Dreamy, capable of science and artistic, “he found that the happiness that deserves the perfection of his soul, procrastinates.” On the boat he … Read more
The powerful Dushyant king comes hunting in a peaceful forest of hermits and meets three young girls, watering flowers and trees. In one of them, Shakuntala, he falls in love at first sight. Posing himself as a servant of the king, Dushyanta asks who she is, for she fears that, being of a different origin … Read more
The action takes place in Florida in the early 1830’s. before and during the so-called Second Seminol War. The protagonist George Randolph is the son of an impoverished planter who moved from Virginia to Florida. In his veins there is an admixture of Indian blood, which is considered to be a matter of pride in … Read more
William Styron Selection of Sophie New York, Brooklyn, 1947. The novice writer Stingo, on whose behalf the narrative is based, set out to conquer literary America. However, while he has nothing to boast about. The work of a reviewer in a fairly large publishing house proves to be short, it is not possible to make … Read more
“Murder of Roger Ackroyd” – a work-novel by Agatha Christie, created within the detective genre and published in 1926. The events of the novel’s heroes are developing in the village of King’s Abbot in England. The story is told by Dr. James Sheppard, who later becomes assistant to Poirot. Mrs. Ferrar, a wealthy widow, is … Read more
VP Kataev Written by Werther … He is sleeping, and he sees that he is at a suburban station and he needs to cross the canvas on which the train stopped. You need to get up, go through the tambour, and you will be on the other side. However, he discovers that there is no … Read more
Hindus have tame elephants. One Indian went with an elephant to the wood for firewood. The forest was deaf and wild. The elephant trampled the owner of the road and helped to bring down trees, and the owner loaded them on an elephant. Suddenly the elephant ceased to obey the master, began to look around, … Read more
VG Korolenko Without language In the Volyn province, not far from the town of Khlebno, above the winding river is the village of Lozishchi. All its inhabitants bear the surname Lozinsky with the addition of different nicknames. There are legends that once Lozinsky were Cossacks, they had some privileges, but now all this has been … Read more
Henry James Daisy Miller A young American, Winterbourne, who has lived in Europe for many years and has become unaccustomed to American customs, comes to a small Swiss town of Vevey to see his aunt. In the hotel, he accidentally gets acquainted with the rich American family of Millers – a nine-year-old boy, his older … Read more
The island of Pingareea is in the Unknown Ocean, north of the kingdom of Rinkitinia, separated from the land of Oz by the Wicked Desert and the possessions of the King of the Dwarves. Pingareei is ruled by King Kitticut, and his subjects are mainly engaged in pearls, which they then bring to Rinkitinia, to … Read more
In one of the departments there is an unremarkable official, Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin. For many years he does the same routine work – rewriting documents. His post is called “official for writing.” Despite the harmlessness and non-conflictness of Akaky Akakievich, his colleagues, especially the young ones, laugh at him. They find many reasons for their … Read more
V. Ya. Lakshin Ivan Denisovich, his friends and foes It’s hard to imagine that a year ago we did not know the name of Solzhenitsyn. The mediocrity has to the complacency of evaluations, but the one who struck us at the first appearance, can not expect indulgence. The story “One day of Ivan Denisovich” is … Read more
The action takes place in medieval France, amidst wars and complex court intrigues, the French King Louis XI, an intelligent and subtle politician, is fighting the mighty European rulers for the prosperity of France. Unprincipled and cautious Louis is the antipode of Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, the first enemy of the French … Read more
In the old days, a son, a young boy of extraordinary talents, grew up in the family of a noble dignitary. His father was proud of him. It’s time to go to the state exams in the capital. The young man rode into Chang’an through the gate of the entertainment quarter and immediately spotted the … Read more
Professor Peter Kean, a long and skinny forty-year-old bachelor, during his traditional morning walks, peeps through the windows of bookstores. Almost with pleasure he notes that the waste paper and the boulevard spread wider and wider. Kin, a world-renowned scholar, a synologist, has the most important private library in Vienna in twenty-five thousand volumes. A … Read more
When Pushkin’s pen was born a winged line that exhaustively defined the face and character of his beloved hero: “Moskvich in Harold’s Cloak,” its creator, I think, was not at all eager to impress compatriots striking in the face with originality. Its purpose, it is reasonable to assume, was not so ambitious, although no less … Read more
The action takes place in the ancient Greek city of Abdera. This city, located in Thrace, has become famous in the history of mankind by the stupidity of its inhabitants, as well as the German city of Schild or the Swiss city of Lahlenburg. The only sensible person in Abder is the philosopher Democritus. He … Read more
In front of me is a picture of the famous Russian landscape painter N. P. Krymov “Winter Evening.” On this canvas is a small village in winter. Looking at the picture, the viewer has a sense of peace, tranquility and warmth, despite the fact that the author painted the winter. In the foreground of the … Read more
Glazastik lived in a small house on the main street of Meikomba. The Finch family was one of the oldest in the district and consisted of three people. The head of the family, Atticus, a lawyer, worked as a lawyer in court and kept his own law firm. He was a widower a few years … Read more
The novel tells of one day of the sixteenth day of June 1904 from the life of a 34-year-old Dublin Jew Leopold Bloom and twenty-two-year-old Stephen Daedalus Three parts of a huge book, divided into eighteen episodes, should, according to the author, relate to the Homeric Odyssey. But this connection with the ancient Greek epic … Read more
Henrik Ibsen Brand West Coast of Norway. Cloudy weather, morning half-light. Brand, a middle-aged man in black clothes and a knapsack behind his shoulders, makes his way west over the mountains to the fjord, where his native village lies. Brand holding fellow travelers – a peasant with his son. They argue – a straight path … Read more
In one of the remote provinces in his estate Tugilov lives a retired guard Ivan Petrovich Berestov, long widowed and not going anywhere. He is engaged in farming and considers himself to be “the smartest person in the whole neighborhood”, although he reads nothing but the “Senate Gazette.” Neighbors love him, although they consider him … Read more
Peter stands proudly on the banks of the Neva River and reflects on the majestic city that he wants to build, that would be one step closer to Europe. At the end of a hundred years, a beautiful mighty city, was erected in a deserted place. Solemnly exalted, he changed the darkness and chaos of … Read more
Main characters: Mishka Dodonov is a boy of 12 years, his family is a mother and two brothers (Fedka is 4 years old and Yashka is 8 years old), all other relatives of the boy died of hunger, Seryozhka Karpukhin is his friend (11 years old), peasant Prokhor, Trofim the boy who dug in the … Read more
William Saroyan The Adventures of Wesley Jackson 1942 Wesley Jackson, an eighteen-year-old resident of San Francisco, drafted into the army. He loves the song “Valencia”, reads a lot and reflects. His parents had long since separated. Mom and his younger brother Virgil went to their relatives, and where now the father, Wesley does not know. … Read more
S. Ya. Marshak Twelve months In the winter forest, a wolf talks to a crow, whites play with a hare in a burner. They are seen by the stepdaughter, who came to the forest for brushwood and firewood (she was sent by her cruel stepmother). The stepdaughter meets the Soldier in the forest, tells him … Read more
Events develop in the mid-50’s. The novel begins with the meeting of Father Tassin, a seventy-year-old member of the Jesuit order, and Saint-Denis, director of a large state reserve in French Equatorial Africa. Father Tassen is a scientist who studies in Africa his paleontological hypotheses and has among the missionaries the reputation of a person … Read more