During a break in the meeting, the members of the Trial Chamber are informed from the newspaper about the death of Ivan Ilyich Golovin, which followed on February 4, 1882, after several weeks of incurable illness. The companions of the deceased, who loved him, involuntarily count the possible relocation in the service, and everyone thinks: … Read more
Henrik Ibsen Ghosts The action takes place in the modern Ibsen of Norway in the Fru Alwing Manor on the west coast of the country. There is a fine rain. With a rustle of wooden soles, Engstrand’s carpenter enters the house. The servant Regina orders him not to make noise: upstairs the son of Frou … Read more
The protagonist of the story – Chudik, with whom something happens all the time – is going to the Urals, to his brother, whom he has not seen for twelve years. Collected things, the next day went to buy train tickets. Before departure there was a lot of time, and he decided to buy gifts … Read more
Homer the Odyssey The Trojan War was started by the gods in order to end the heroes’ time and the present, human, iron age came. Who did not die near the walls of Troy, he had to die on the way back. Most of the surviving Greek leaders sailed to their homeland, as they sailed … Read more
V. Irving The ghost-ghost In the mountains of Odenwald in southern Germany stood the castle of Baron von Landshort. He fell into decay, but his owner – a proud descendant of the ancient genus Katsenelenbogen – tried to maintain the appearance of former grandeur. The baron had a beautiful daughter, brought up under the vigilant … Read more
The narrative begins in the early morning, when the maid Lisa knocks on the bedroom door of Sofya Famusova. Sophia is not alone – she spent the whole night talking with the secretary of her father Molchalin, but she does not want anyone to know about it. Leaving Sophia’s room, Molchalin faces her father. Famusov … Read more
A. de Saint-Exupery The Planet of Men The book is written in the first person. Exupery dedicated it to one of his fellow pilots – Henri Guillaume. A person reveals himself in the fight against obstacles. The pilot is like a peasant who cultivates the earth and thereby extorts from nature some of its secrets. … Read more
S.-G. Colette My angel She is almost fifty, he – half as many, their relationship lasts for seven years. She calls him an Angel. He is going to marry: his mother found him a bride – a young Edmey. Leonie Walson, known as Lea de Louval, completes the successful career of a secured courtesan. She … Read more
Two German soldiers – Hans and Willy – went to the French farm to ask how to drive to Soissons (one of the counties of France). The door was opened by a young girl who answered that she did not know the way. Then the soldiers went into the house and obtained an answer from … Read more
The novel tells of one day of the sixteenth day of June 1904 from the life of a 34-year-old Dublin Jew Leopold Bloom and twenty-two-year-old Stephen Daedalus. Three parts of a huge book, divided into eighteen episodes, should, according to the author, relate to the Homeric Odyssey (Ulysses – the Latin transcription of the name … Read more