William Golding Lord of the Flies Expires on: As a result of an explosion somewhere in the nuclear explosion, a group of teenagers who were being evacuated are on an uninhabited island. First on the seashore there are Ralph and a fat boy with glasses called Piggy. Having found a large shell on the seabed, … Read more
“The Story” immediately precedes the message of Dmitry from Rome to Archbishop Gennady, in which he reports that the Greek original of the story about the white klobuk was not preserved and he could hardly find only the Latin translation of this work. His own translation of this monument into Russian Dmitry and applies to … Read more
G. d’Annunzio Delight In December 1886 Count Andrea Sperelli waits in her chambers for the beloved. The refined atmosphere evokes memories – these things touched Elena’s hands, Elena’s eyes fell on these pictures and curtains, the smell of these flowers intoxicated Elena. When she bent down to the fireplace, her figure looked like Dana Correggio. … Read more
The action takes place in Leningrad. Evening the first. In the room sit Zoya and Ilyin. Zoya is a saleswoman in a deli. Ilyin in Leningrad on vacation, he lives somewhere in the North. The vacation ends – it’s time to leave. He tells Zoya that in the next house, above the pharmacy, his first … Read more
It was snowing. Putnitsa wandered around the frozen swamp, beginning to worry more and more. Those who sent her also did not expect snowfall, which unexpectedly began about two hours ago. Now Zoska had a clear trail, but soon it would be covered by snow. Worse, she lost her way. The expected forester was not … Read more
1647 year. Ukrainian lands that are part of the Commonwealth. Jan Skshetusky – a young handsome officer, a knight without fear and reproach, in the service of Prince Jeremiah Vishnevetsky, the owner of the vast lands on the Left Bank of the Dnieper, rescues the swarthy narrow-eyed giant from the Horde. A brave and arrogant … Read more
Texts of fairy tales seem to the child something kind in any case. Only with age, when a person grows up, he fancies that fairy tales are not really children’s works, but very much even adults, philosophical and profound. Of course, it is very important and how this or that story is submitted. Today we … Read more
The narrative in the story is written on behalf of the 50-year-old Peter Andreyevich Grinev, who recalls the time when fate brought him with the leader of the peasant uprising, Emelian Pugachev. Peter grew up in the family of a poor nobleman. The boy practically did not receive education – he himself writes that only … Read more
1572 In France – in the midst of religious wars between Catholics and Huguenots. There is a fierce struggle for power, in which the interests of the three main parties – Protestants or Huguenots, the royal party, the weakest of the three, and the party of the ultra-royalists of the Dukes of Gizov, collide. King … Read more
Plautus Amphitryon The most beloved hero of Greek myths was Hercules, a mighty toiler who saved the gods from destruction, and people from terrible monsters, but who did not make himself a kingdom or happiness. The Greeks composed songs about him first, then tragedies, then comedies. One of such comedies also reached us in the … Read more