The boy comes to his cow in the barn, talks with the darling, wants to hug her, but she is indifferent to caress. She is concentrating on chewing dry grass and thinking about her. The animal’s thoughts on that day were directed toward the son-calf. He choked, began to feel bad, and the father of … Read more
Vito Andolini was twelve years old when his father was killed, who did not get along with the Sicilian mafia. As the mafia hunts for his son, Vito is sent to America. There he changes his name on Corleone – by the name of the village, where he comes from. Young Vito enters the grocery … Read more
I arrived in the city of Drymov Ilya Artamonov – a handsome stately man, the residents said he wanted to build a canvas factory on the riverbank. Earlier Ilya served as prikazychikom princes, got the will, for good service gave him money – that’s arrived to build. He has three sons – Peter, Alexei and … Read more
In the preface to the second edition of letters in 1793, the author draws the reader’s attention to the fact that he did not dare to change the manner of the narrative-the living, sincere impressions of an inexperienced young man, lacking the cautiousness and legibility of a sophisticated court or experienced professor. He began his … Read more
Herman Melville Moby Dick, or White Whale A young American with the biblical name Ishmael (in the book of Genesis it is said of Ishmael, the son of Abraham: “He will be among people like a wild ass, his hands on everyone and everyone’s hands on him”), bored with being on land and experiencing difficulties … Read more
To feed illusions is the fate of the provincials. Lucien Chardon was originally from Angouleme. His father, a simple apothecary, in 1793, miraculously saved the girl de Rubambre, the last representative of this noble family, from the scaffold, and was thereby entitled to marry her. Their children, Lucien and Eve, inherited the marvelous beauty of … Read more
Ivan Petrovich, a twenty-four-year-old novice writer, in search of a new apartment, meets on a Petersburg street a strange old man with a dog. Unable to be thin, in rags, he has the habit of sitting for hours in Miller’s confectionery near Voznesensky Prospekt, basking at the stove and staring at the deadly unseeing glance … Read more
Story “Biryuk” by IS Turgenev was written in 1847 and entered the cycle of the writer’s works about the life, traditions and way of life of the Russian people “Notes of a Hunter”. The story refers to the literary realism direction. In “Biryuk” the author described his memories of the life of peasants in Orel … Read more
A childless woman, on the advice of a sorceress, raised a girl from the grain of a tulip to an inch tall Thumbelina. Cradle for her was a nut shell, a tulip petal in a dish with water and flowers, where the girl sailed and sang. One night she was stolen by a toad to … Read more
James Matthew Barrie (born May 9, 1860, Kirrimure – June 19, 1937, London) – Scottish playwright and novelist, author of the famous children’s fairy tale “Peter Pan.” James Matthew Barry was born May 9, 1860 in Cirrmure (Scotland) and was the ninth child in the weaver’s family. He studied at Edinburgh University. At the end … Read more