Four years later, in the fifth famine drove people to cities or to forests – there was a crop failure. Zakhar Pavlovich remained alone in the village. During the long life of his hands, not a single product, from a frying pan to an alarm clock, was missing, but Zakhar Pavlovich himself had nothing: neither … Read more
Herman Melville Taipi In the summer of 1842, the American whaling ship Dolly, after a six-month voyage, reached the Marquesan Archipelago in Polynesia and anchored in the bay of the island of Nukuhiv. Here one of the sailors (later, before the natives, he calls himself Tom), unwilling to endure captain’s tyranny and cruelty, and believing, … Read more
The famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend assistant Dr. Watson are examining a cane forgotten in an apartment on Baker Street by a visitor who came in their absence. Soon the host of the cane appears, the doctor James Mortimer, a young tall man with closely set gray eyes and a long protruding nose. … Read more
Terence Formion Action develops in Athens. Everything begins with the monologue of the slave Lava; the host of his friend Geta, the young Antiphones marries for love and under quite ordinary circumstances. After giving Goethe to return the debt: it took money for a gift to the young. As we can see, the tradition of … Read more
After some time, the narrator and Maxim Maksimych met again at the inn. Attention attracted them an empty road carriage of a dandy kind. The footman accompanying her answered that the carriage belonged to Pechorin, and he himself stayed overnight with the colonel. The staff captain, considering Pechorin his friend, asked the waiter to report … Read more
Gustave Flaubert Salambo Pining for strong and harsh passions, which he did not find in the reality surrounding him, Flaubert turned to a profound history. He settled his heroes in the III century. BC. e. and chose a real episode – when the famous Carthaginian commander Hamilcar Barca with unseen brutality suppressed the insurrection of … Read more
V. F. Tendryakov Bread for Dog The childhood of Vladimir Tendryakov passed in the bleak epoch of postrevolutionary Russia and Stalin’s repressions, all the horror of which remained in his memory a gloomy trace of childhood memories that formed the basis of the story “Bread for a Dog.” Perhaps, it was the effect of children’s … Read more
The hero of the novel, Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, was born in 1898 in St. Petersburg, in the family of a doctor-oculist. In 1917 his parents died of typhus. Timothy joined the White Army, where he served first as an attendant, and then in the Office of Military Intelligence. In 1919, from the Crimea, taken by … Read more
MERMAID Opera in four acts (six scenes) Libretto by A. S. Dargomyzhsky Characters: Prince Princess Miller Natasha, his daughter, then the Mermaid Olga, an orphan, devoted to the princesses Matchmaker Mermaid, 12 years old Tenor Mezzo soprano Bass Soprano Soprano Baritone Without singing Boyars, nobles, hunters, peasants, peasant women and mermaids. PLOT On the bank … Read more
Book 1. Part 1. YOUR ORGANIZATION INTRODUCTION The novel takes place in Vienna in 1913. The main character, the thirty-two-year-old Ulrich, a mathematician and an exalted dreamer, an intellectual and a cynic, already tired of himself and of the world, lives a bright but disorderly life. He does not have to take care of the … Read more