Miss Marple, an elderly lady, is resting in a hotel on the Caribbean coast. Her interlocutor, Major Palgrave, babbling about all sorts of trifles. Among other things, he talks about a serial killer who
The company of the Kremlin cadets goes to the front. The action takes place in November 1941; the front is approaching Moscow. On the way the cadets are met by a special detachment of
N. M. Karamzin Poor Liza The author discusses how good the neighborhood of Moscow is, but best of all about the Gothic towers of the C… new monastery, hence the whole of Moscow with
The lace-maker Domna Platonovna, well-known to the storyteller, “has the most immense and versatile acquaintance” and is sure that she owes this to one simplicity and “goodness”. People, in the opinion of Domna Platonovna,
Pamela, barely fifteen children, the daughter of a poor but virtuous married couple Andrews, informs in a letter to her parents that the noble lady, in whose service she spent the last few years
Emile Zola Teresa Raken Roman begins with a description of a small haberdashery in the Parisian arcade, which contains Teresa Raken and her aunt of 60 years – Mrs. Raken. They live in the
Thanks to such pictures as this, one can not help thinking about the spiritual values of life, ideally inherent in all decent people. Perseverance of a person does not always have no boundaries, and
H. Murakami Hunting for sheep From this book, the author’s success in Russia began. The protagonist – a grown-up hippie (Alter ego himself Murakami) is toiling in the small advertising business. His wife left
Venus has a cold. Speaking about the coldness of Europe and Europeans, she constantly sneezes and wraps her marble shoulders in dark sable fur. “The more rude a woman will treat a man, the
Yuz Aleshkovsky Kangaroo The hero of the story appeals to his drinking companion: “Come on, Kolya, let’s start in order, although it’s not at all clear to me how in this whole absurd history