The Dursley family hates everything unusual. But one day strange people in bright clothes begin to walk around the streets and discuss the nephew of the Dursleys – the one-year-old Harry Potter. At night near the house of the Dursleys wizards appear: Professor Dumbledore, director of the school of magic Hogwarts, and a teacher from … Read more
BL Pasternak Doctor Zhivago When Yurin Uncle Nikolai Nikolayevich moved to Petersburg, other relatives, Gromeko, took care of him, who was left an orphan ten years later, in the house of which there were interesting people at the Sivtsev Vrazhka, and where the atmosphere of the professorial family was quite conducive to development The legal … Read more
The middle of the last century, the town with the pretentious name of St. Petersburg… America, where no factories, no railroads, no class struggle, but instead chickens wander among the houses with kitchen gardens… A pious province where Aunt Polly, alone raising Tom Sawyer, does not take up the rod, not backing up his fragile … Read more
The action takes place in Naples in the rich house of the fifty-two-year-old Don Domenico Soriano, a successful entrepreneur. In the room are himself Don Domenico, Donna Filumena Marturano, the woman with whom he lived for the last twenty years, Donna Rosalia Solimene, a seventy-five year old woman who shared the most grievous moments in … Read more
Spring. Upper Don. The narrator and his friend rode on the carriage, harnessed by two horses, to the village of Bukanovskaya. It was difficult to drive – the snow began to melt, the dirt impassable. And here near the farm Mokhovskogo river Elanka. Shallow in summer, now spilled a full kilometer. Together with the unknown … Read more
Twenty-six-year-old Harry Engstrom, nicknamed Rabbit, lives in the village of Mount Judge near the town of Brewer, Pennsylvania. He is married, he has a son Nelson, but there is no family happiness. Family obligations greatly weigh the hero. Janice’s wife drinks, and her pregnancy does not fill Rabbit, pride in the knowledge that their family … Read more
In one state there lived a king who loved to joke. Therefore, all his seven ministers were famous jokers. But the king also had a real dwarf-jester, whom everyone called the Frog. The frog together with the girl Tripteto was presented to the king by one general. Once the king decided to arrange a masquerade … Read more
Ilf and Petrov Golden calf End of spring or early summer 1930. The Cabinet of the Arbat Pre-Executive Committee includes a citizen who poses as the son of Lieutenant Schmidt and who therefore needs financial assistance. This Ostap Bender, saved by the surgeon from death after Kisa Vorobyaninov, the hero of the novel “The Twelve … Read more
The hero of the story turned to his drinking companion, so that Kolya started everything in order, but it is not clear to him. what is the order in this ridiculous history. Somehow. in 1949. the hero had a phone call. Kidalla, a lieutenant colonel of state security, threatened to summon a certain citizen Tede … Read more
In the Odessa estate in the large family of retired general Nikolai Semenovich Kartashev his eldest son Tema grows. The character of the Nicholas general is harsh, and he keeps his children in strictness, accustoming them to discipline. The mother of the Theme of Aglaida Vasilyevna, an intelligent and educated woman, has opposite views on … Read more