C. Richardson Clarissa, or The Story of a Young Lady Anna Hou wrote to her friend Clarissa Garlow that in the world there is much talk of a clash between James Garlow and Sir Robert Lovelace, ending with the wounding of Clarissa’s older brother. Anna asks to talk about the incident, and on behalf of … Read more
In one of his estates lives Kirila Petrovich Troekurov, a rich noble gentleman, arrogant tyrant. Neighbors cater to all and are afraid of him. Troyekurov himself respects only his poor neighbor Andrei Gavrilovich Dubrovsky, who was in the past his comrade in the service. Troekurov and Dubrovsky are both widowers. At Dubrovsky’s son Vladimir, at … Read more
AA Blok is the greatest poet of the 20th century, a vivid representative of the “silver age”, as Andrei Bely, “Man of the Century”, will say about him. Vyacheslav Ivanov said: “I consider him the first lyricist of our time… Blok is Prince Hamlet, and like every prince it’s a lot of nobility, it’s a … Read more
The action takes place in 1890-1918. The work is written in the form of the author’s memories of his peer, a young English officer who died in France at the very end of the First World War. His name appeared on one of the last lists of those who died on the battlefield, when hostilities … Read more
U. Plenzdorf New suffering of the young V. The story begins with a few obituary notices about the death of a seventeen-year-old Edgar Vibo. Then follows the dialogue of the mother and father of the deceased youth. These two broke up when their son was only five years old. Since then, my father has never … Read more
O. Henry Confessional humorist The hero-narrator is famous for his sense of humor. Natural resourcefulness is successfully combined with training, jokes are, as a rule, innocuous character, and he becomes a universal favorite. Once a hero receives a proposal to send something for the department of humor in the well-known weekly. His material is accepted, … Read more
The author’s foreword is devoted to a communication about what Mercier in Paris is interested in – public and private mores, dominant ideas, customs, scandalous luxury, abuse. “The modern generation and the image of my age occupy me, which is much closer to me than the foggy history of the Phoenicians or Egyptians.” He considers … Read more
Marcel again visits Tansonville and makes long walks with Madame de Saint-Loup, and then goes to sleep before dinner. Once, in the brief moment of awakening from sleep, he imagines that Albertine, who has long since died, lies nearby. Love is gone forever, but the memory of the body was stronger. Marcel reads the “Diary … Read more
Veterinarian Andrew McDuey lives in a small American town. He treats not only dogs and cats, but also livestock from the surrounding farms, and is also a veterinary inspector in the district. Dr. McDuey is known as an honest but tough man: he ruthlessly lulls old animals and refuses to treat not domestic animals. Six … Read more
A small old man with a big nose sits by the fireplace and talks about his incredible adventures, convincing listeners that these 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
US Burroughs Torch William Li was born and raised in a fashionable quiet suburb of one of the big cities of the Midwest. In childhood and adolescence, he did not stand out among peers, except that he read them much more. At the end of Harvard, William staggered for a year on pre-war Europe, the … Read more
The story “Killed under Moscow” was written by Konstantin Vorobyov in 1961. Writer epigraph to the work took Tvardovsky’s verses. Cadets go to the front The events described in the story take place in November 1941. The front line is very close to Moscow. A training company consisting of Kremlin cadets was sent to the … Read more
The narrator admires Nevsky Prospekt as the best street in St. Petersburg. In the early morning, you can meet here with simple peasants hurrying to work, beggars near the doors of a pastry shop, old men and old women waving their hands or speaking to themselves, the boys who run with empty shtofs or ready … Read more
The novel takes place in the middle of the 16th century. Madame de Chartres, for many years after her husband’s death, lived away from the court, and her daughter comes to Paris. Mademoiselle de Chartres goes to the jeweler to choose jewelry. There she accidentally meets the Prince of Cleves, the second son of the … Read more
The most difficult feat of Hercules in the service of Eurystheus was his last, twelfth feat. He had to go to the great titan Atlas, who holds the firmament on his shoulders, and get three golden apples from his gardens, which the daughter of Atlas of the Hesperides looked at. These apples grew on a … Read more
The author wishes to convince the reader that “only in the darkness of the grave a person is able to find rest”, because “the irrepressibility of passions” and “the inevitability of fate” “will never give him rest on earth.” Kurval, a wealthy gentleman of about fifty, decides to marry a second time. The first wife … Read more
Lomonosov wrote not only scientific works, but also poetic works. A significant place in his work is occupied by odes of various contents, as well as other poems, in which both the sublime and the ordinary subjects are narrated. Thus, in the poem “Two Astronomers Happened Together in a Feast…”, written in 1761, the author … Read more
AP Chekhov Steppe From the county town of the N-provincial province, a battered britzka departs in the July morning, in which the merchant Ivan Ivanovich Kuzmichev, the rector of the N-th church of Fr. Christopher of Syria (“a little long-haired old man”) and nephew of Kuzmichev’s boy Yegorushka of nine years, sent by his mother, … Read more
For twenty-four years, the narrator lived in a very large city. Forty-eight days ago he graduated with honors from the medical faculty of the university and was appointed head of the Nikolsky medical hospital, although he wanted to work in a county town forty miles from Nikolsky, where there was electricity and four doctors with … Read more
During the retreat under Oskol, the regiment throws fresh trenches. For the defense there is the first battalion commanded by Shiryaev and his lieutenant Kerzhentsev. Two days later the battalion leaves and on the way the heroes learn that the regiment is defeated. On the way, the battalion stops in sheds, where it is necessary … Read more
The source for this play was the story of Aeneas from the third book of the “Aeneid” of Virgil. The action takes place in ancient times in Epirus, an area in the northwest of Greece. After the fall of Troy, the widow of the murdered Hector, Andromache, becomes a prisoner of Pyrrhus, the son of … Read more
Whenever the narrator descended from the village eel to the meadow, he seemed to fall into the world of his distant childhood – in the world of grasses, dragonflies, butterflies and, of course, horses. He often took bread with him and fed up the horses, and if there was no bread with him, he still … Read more
Leonard, a young widow, is faithful to the memory of her deceased husband. She spends whole days praying and reading pious books, not admitting to herself any of the admirers and seekers of her hand. There are a lot of them: the beauty of Leonard is famous throughout Valencia no less than its inaccessibility and … Read more
In Genoa, in a small square in front of the station, a dense crowd of people gathered-workers predominate, but many well-dressed, well-fed people. At the head of the crowd are members of the municipality, the banner of the city, waving heavily silk embroidered with silk, wavers above their heads, and alongside it are the multicolored … Read more
The young knight Albert is going to come to the tournament and asks his servant Ivan to show a helmet. The helmet is penetrated through the past duel with the knight Delormej. It is impossible to put it on. The servant comforts Albert by the fact that he repaid Delorzhu in full, knocking him out … Read more
SD Dovlatov Inostranka Marusya Tatarovich is a girl from a good Soviet family. Her parents were not careerists: the historical circumstances of the Soviet system, which destroyed the best people, forced the father and mother to occupy vacant seats, and by the end of the labor biography they were firmly established in the middle-level nomenclature. … Read more
A small town in the American South. Cotton mill, workers’ houses, peach trees, a church with two stained-glass windows and a main street of yards in a hundred. If you walk along the main street in the August afternoon, then little will be pleased with the eye in this kingdom of boredom and desert. In … Read more
Alexander Pope Stealing curl The work is preceded by the author’s introduction, which is a dedication to a certain Arabella Fermor. Pope warns Arabella that she is too serious about his creation, explaining that it pursues “the only goal: to entertain a few young ladies” endowed with sufficient common sense and sense of humor. The … Read more
Sorokin definitely abuses the reader’s trust: Moho, Samsp, Marog, Bti and Shma have not yet disappeared from memory, but Potiks, Wax, Baldochay, Erokh and Samosya are already on their heels, and this is not the next echelon of the “brothers of Light” – from the monumental “Trilogy of Ice” was left only a thawed puddle, … Read more
“In one of the remote streets of Moscow, in a gray house with white columns, a mezzanine and a crooked balcony, once lived a lady, a widow surrounded by numerous courtyards… From among all her servants the most remarkable person was the janitor Gerasim, a man of twelve heights of growth, built by a hero … Read more
The novel was written in 1774. The story was based on the story that Goethe himself witnessed. In 1772, the writer was in Wenceslas, a small town. Here in the office of the imperial court, he was practicing law. Fate brought him with a certain Kestner, who served as secretary of the Hanoverian Embassy. Goethe … Read more
Good Doctor Aibolit sits under a tree and treats animals. Everyone comes with their diseases to Aibolit, and no one refuses a good doctor. He helps both the fox bitten by the evil wasp and the watchdog, which the chicken pecked in the nose. Bunny, who cut the legs of the tram, Aibolit sews new … Read more
The tenth year after the end of the Trojan War. On the island of the nymphs of Calypso, where Odysseus has lived for seven years, the Messenger of the Gods Hermes arrives with a message and instructions: It’s time for the Traveler to return home and restore order there. But Odysseus does not aspire to … Read more
Sherlock Holmes is approached for help by the horse trainer Sir Robert Norberton, who lives in the estate of Shoscombe and is the owner of the famous race stables. Sir Robert was never married and lives in his estate with his sister, Lady Beatrice. The estate belonged to the late lady husband, and Sir Robert … Read more
The Trojan War began. The Trojan prince Paris deceived and kidnapped Elena, the wife of the Spartan king Menelaus. The Greeks gathered on them a huge army, led by Argos king Agamemnon, Brother Menelaus and Clytemnestra’s husband – Elena’s sister. The army stood in Aulis – on the Greek shore, facing Troy. But it could … Read more
Jan Krishtof Zaluski is the main character. A cripple who has no hands from birth; he has a big head, a pale face “with moving sharp features and large, penetrating running eyes.” “The body was very small, the shoulders narrow, the breasts and abdomen were not visible from under a broad beard, with a strong … Read more
Rome of the times of Emperor Nero, mired in crimes and debauchery. A nephew, a young and beautiful warrior, the patrician Marcus Vinicius, is Petronius, a writer, an esthete, a connoisseur of luxury and pleasures, an “arbiter of grace”, the approximate Nero. The young man says that when he returned to Rome from the war … Read more
The story “Portrait” of Gogol was written in 1833 – 1834 and entered the cycle “Petersburg Stories”. The work consists of two parts, which tell us about two different fates of artists. The link between the stories is a mystical portrait of the usurer, which had a special impact on the lives of both heroes. … Read more
The “lost world” begins with an explanation in love. The budding reporter Edward Malone asks for the hands and hearts of his lover Gladys. The girl refuses to him for the reason that he is too mediocre for her sublime nature, and that her husband can only expect to become an outstanding and brave person … Read more
In a small state where Prince Demetrius reigned, every citizen was given complete freedom in his endeavor. And fairies and magicians above all put warmth and freedom, so with Demetrius, many fairies from the magical land of Ginistan moved to the blessed little principality. However, after the death of Demetrius, his successor, Pafnuti, conceived the … Read more
V. V. Krestovsky Petersburg Slums On May 5, 1838, a young woman throws a newborn girl into the house of Prince Dmitry Shadursky. The thirty-eight-year-old prince is little surprised at the appearance of the foundling; knowing the way of life of the prince, does not see anything strange in this, and his wife Tatyana Lvovna. … Read more
At five o’clock, as usual, the climb broke. “But the barracks did not open, Shukhov never woke up. Before the divorce, there was an hour and a half of personal time, and it could be used to earn some money: sew someone a case for gloves, a rich brigadnik to put dry felt boots in … Read more
In one of the harbors of the Pacific Ocean, the sailor – the hero of the novel “Taipi” comes to the service on the American frigate “Neversink.” For the new sailor on the ship there were no jackets, so he was forced to make himself a new pea coat of white cloth. For a jacket … Read more
In the twentieth century, the most prestigious international award was, undoubtedly, the Nobel Prize. Established her well-known Swedish experimental chemist and businessman Alfred Nobel. The future scientist was born in the family of architect and inventor Emmanuel Nobel in 1833. When Alfred was 9 years old, his father brought his family to Russia, where he … Read more
Thomas Wolfe Take a look at your house, an angel Everyone living on earth is the result of countless additions: four thousand years ago in Crete love could begin which ended yesterday in Texas. Every life is a moment, open to eternity, Wolfe says. And here is one of them… Eugene Gant is a descendant … Read more
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov – a new trend in the history of Russian literature. He was the first to introduce the theme of the common people and filled the rhymes with conversational turns. There was a life of commoners, so a new style was born. Nikolai Alekseevich became the pioneer in the channel of a combination … Read more
PF Nilin Probationary period The action takes place in the early 20-ies. in a large Siberian provincial town. Two seventeen-year-old working guys, Egorov and Zaitsev, on a Komsomol voucher directed to work in the criminal investigation department, undergo probation for a month. They both receive invitations to an evening dedicated to the anniversary of the … Read more
Ludovico Ariosto (Italian Ludovico Ariosto, September 8, 1474, Reggio nel Emilia – July 6, 1533, Ferrara) is the famous Italian poet and playwright of the Renaissance. Father Ludoviko saw his son as a lawyer, but the young man did not find inspiration in jurisprudence and devoted himself to the study of classical literature. He learned … Read more
In the 60-ies. The Sorbonne became cramped with its old walls – it was suffocating from the influx of students. Then it was necessary to take a difficult decision reluctantly the university recognized that some of the capital’s children could not get a higher education in Paris itself, the Faculty of Philology tore a piece … Read more
It was a long time ago, in a life that “will not return forever.” The narrator walked along a large road, and in front, in a small birch grove, the peasants mowed grass and sang. The narrator was surrounded by fields of “middle-aged, primordial Russia”. It seemed that there was not, and never was, time, … Read more