Apuleius Metamorphosis, or the Golden donkey The hero of the novel Lucius (whether by chance coincidence with the author’s name?!) travels through Thessaly. On the way, he hears fascinating and terrible stories about sorcerous charms, transformations and other witches’ tricks. Lucius arrives in the Thessalian city of Hypatos and stops at the house of a … Read more
They took shelter in a shed, where funny conversations immediately began. Grandfather Mazai was a great mastak for different tales and interesting stories. At first he poisoned village hunters, among whom one broke the trigger of a rifle and went hunting with a box of matches, another always had his hands cold and he was … Read more
A few months from the life of the so-called intellectual elite of London. Receptions, meetings, visits, travel… Friendly conversations, fundamental disputes, secular gossip, family and love troubles… In music, a kind of polyphony is called a counterpoint, in which all the voices are equal. And this principle is observed in the novel Huxley. There are … Read more
On Christmas Eve, in one of the London hotels there was a theft. Countess Morcar was robbed of a valuable stone – a blue carbuncle, one of the most expensive diamonds in the world. Suspicion fell on solderer John Horner, previously convicted of theft, which repaired the Countess’s room with a fireplace grate. The testimony … Read more
This summer morning in the village of Grachi began unusually: with the dawn, all the inhabitants of the house of the poor landowner Anna Pavlovna Adueva were already on their feet. Only the culprit of this fuss, the son of Aduyeva, Alexander, slept, “how to properly sleep a twenty-year-old boy, a heroic dream.” The turmoil … Read more
Seventeen-year-old Holden Caulfield, who is staying at the sanatorium, recalls “that crazy story that happened last Christmas”, after which he “almost gave up the ends,” was ill for a long time, and now he is undergoing treatment and soon hopes to return home. His memories begin the day he left Pensi, a closed high school … Read more
The action takes place in the XX century. in the Danzig area. The narrative is conducted on behalf of Oscar Macerath, a patient of a special medical institution, a man whose growth stopped at the age of three and who never parted with a tin drum, trusting him with all secrets, describing with his help … Read more
In Petersburg, on Gorokhovaya Street, in the same, as always, morning, lies in bed, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov – a young man of thirty-two or thirty-three, who does not burden himself with special occupations. His lying is a certain way of life, a kind of protest against the existing conventions, because Ilya Ilyich so vehemently, philosophically … Read more
General of Aviation Harras receives guests at the restaurant Otto. This is the only restaurant in Berlin, where you can hold private banquets in wartime under the special permission of Goering. Accordingly, one of the halls has a newest listening device for the Gestapo. The general arrives at the restaurant from the Imperial Chancellery with … Read more
To Sherlock Holmes, Mrs. St. Claire, who lives in a small house near London, seeks help from Mrs. Neville St. Claire’s missing husband. Mr. Neville St. Clair appeared in the area recently. He rented a luxurious villa, married, two children were born in the family. According to others, Mr. Neville is a wonderful family man … Read more