AI Polezhaev Sasha The poem is written in the first person. A student at Moscow University Sashka Polezhaev, a friend, goes to St. Petersburg to visit his uncle. Do you remember how Pushkin at the beginning of the novel “Eugene Onegin” hero also goes to his uncle? It looks like that. He was born in … Read more
The action takes place in the middle of the XIX century. In one of the ordinary London nights in the life of Mr. Dombey, the greatest event is happening – his son is born. Henceforth his firm, in whose management he sees the meaning of his life, will again not only by name, but also … Read more
DG Lawrence Lover of Lady Chatterley In 1917, Constance Reid, a twenty-two-year-old girl, the daughter of the famous Royal Academy artist Sir Malkom Reid, is married to Baron Clifford Chatterley. Six months after the wedding, Clifford, all this time participating in the war in Flanders,. Returns back to England with severe wounds, as a result … Read more
C. McCarthy Koni, horses America, Texas, 1946. The old man is dying the owner of the ranching ranch. His thirty-six-year-old daughter intends to sell the land – she does not bring income, and life in the outskirts definitely does not suit the heiress. Sixteen-year-old John Grady tries to persuade his mother not to sell the … Read more
Candide, a pure and sincere youth, is brought up in the impoverished castle of a beggar, but a vain Westphalian Baron, along with his son and daughter. Their home teacher, Dr. Panglass, a homegrown philosopher-metaphysician, taught the children that they live in the best of the worlds, where everything has a cause and effect, and … Read more
Plaut Curcudion Curculion means “Bread worm”. This is the nickname of a one-eyed freeloader, he took root, a cunning and a glutton who leads the intrigue in this comedy. His breadwinner and patron is an ardent young man in love; the girl that this young man loves belongs to the evil pimp, and it needs … Read more
30-ies of the last century. The conquest of the Caucasus, which knew much more “stormy days” under Alexei Petrovich Ermolov, is drawing to a close. “Foreign forces”, of course, are burdened by “the land of holy liberty,” and, of course, he is indignant, but not so much as to block the Military-Georgian road. The author, … Read more
Police agent Yablonskaya visits St. Petersburg, where he meets with the Inspector of the secret police Sudeikin. Yablonsky’s career went sky high, he recently issued to the authorities a revolutionary, Vera Figner. This happened in Kharkov, and now the prisoner was in the grip of the all-powerful director of the police department V. K. Plehve, … Read more
Chor and Kalinych Once, while hunting in the Kaluga region, I met with the local gentleman Polutkin. He also like I loved hunting. Polutkin made an offer to live on his estate. The road was long, so it was decided to call on one of the peasants’ men-Horia. He was not at home. The chorus … Read more
The story “Man in a case” Chekhov wrote in 1898. The work is the first story of the “Little Trilogy” of the writer – the cycle, which also included the stories “Gooseberries” and “About Love.” In “The Man in a Case” Chekhov talks about the teacher of the dead languages Belikov, who tried to conclude … Read more
The action of Ch. P. Snow’s novel “Corridors of Power” takes place in Great Britain in 1955-1958. The protagonist of the novel is a young Conservative politician representing the left wing of his party, Roger Kuif. The narrative is conducted on behalf of his colleague, and later a friend of Lewis Eliot In the spring … Read more
Anatole France Contemporary History I. Under the city elms Abbot Lanten, the rector of the theological seminary in the city of ***, wrote to Monsignor Cardinal Archbishop a letter in which he bitterly complained to the abbot Gitrel, the teacher of spiritual eloquence. Through the aforementioned Gitrel, which disgraces the good name of the clergyman, … Read more
A. Strindberg Freken Julia The action takes place in Sweden, in the count’s, a manor in the kitchen on the night of Ivan Kupala, when, according to folk tradition, among all who celebrate this religious and magical holiday all the class boundaries are temporarily abolished. Christina, a cook of thirty-five years, is standing by the … Read more
The hero is studying in a special school for mentally retarded children. But his illness differs from the state in which most of his classmates live. Unlike them, he does not hang cats on the fire escape, does not behave stupidly and wildly, does not spit on anyone in the face at big flips and … Read more
The Kiev prince Vladimir is having a feast. Princes, boyars, heroes, Cossacks, burlaks and peasants are sitting at the feast. Having eaten and drunk, everyone starts to brag: who is the “golden treasury”, who is the “broad court”, who is the “good horse”, and the unreasonable brag about “young wife” and “sister”. Only two brothers … Read more
The author of the story, he is also the main character of the “Notes of the Hunter”, sat in a birch grove near the middle of September and observed the surrounding nature. Her condition was then typically autumnal. The grove became dull and damp, as soon as the sun went down, and, on the contrary, … Read more
MAZEPA Opera in three acts (six scenes) Libretto by VP Burenin in the processing of PI Tchaikovsky Characters: Mazepa, hetman Kochubei Love, his wife Maria, their daughter Andrei Orlik, the executioner Spark, friend of Kochubei Drunk Cossack Baritone Bass Mezzo soprano Soprano Tenor Bass Tenor Tenor Cossacks, Cossacks, guests, servants of Kochubei, serdeyuki, monks, hangmen. … Read more
One fine day, when the water mill came home, his wife said to him: “From now on, you must be very quiet.” Because we have a little boy. – What are you saying! – the father-watery was delighted. “A real little boy?” “Yes, the real Little Water!” said the wife. “I beg you, take off … Read more
The action takes place in Ancient Rome in the palace of Emperor Nero. He ascended to the throne illegally, thanks to his mother Agrippina. The emperor was to become Britannik, the son of Agrippina’s second husband Claudius, but she managed to bribe the army and the senate and elevated her son to the throne. Nero, … Read more
There are eccentrics in Moscow, Petersburg, and other big Russian cities. They do not have royal, but imperial bloodlines. Even under Peter the art of Russian furniture originated, under Elizabeth it developed and spread. This serf art, which has no immortal history, and the names of the first masters destroyed the time. In the city … Read more
There are works that can be read and re-read many times. The book of Antoine de Saint-Exupery “The Little Prince” is one of those. Since the first edition in 1943, it is among the most read in the world. Its author, a French pilot and writer, is an adult, and remains in the soul of … Read more
Sherlock Holmes is approached by the banker Alexander Holder. One British high-ranking person, who urgently needed money, left him with a bail a diadem, a national treasure. The cost of jewelry at least twice the loan. In the diadem, there are thirteen teeth and thirty-nine large beryl, three on each tooth. Fearing to keep such … Read more
The Count of Albaziorita and the Marquis of Forlipopoli lived in the same Florentine hotel for almost three months, and all this time they sorted out the relationship, arguing that more importantly, a big name or a full purse: the marquis rebuked the count by the fact that his county was bought, the count also … Read more
A diary? Well no! Rather, notes, notes, memories – more correctly, physiology (a forgotten genre in which fiction is combined with journalism, sociology, psychology, in order to more fully, and more easily describe a social slice). And now the hero is already on the train, rushing him from the Russian province to the Russian capital, … Read more
Even in ancient times people noticed that life is full of vicissitudes and every act can lead to the most unexpected consequences. So, a certain scientist who succeeded in the capital examinations, reporting this in a letter to his wife, rashly joked that they were bored in solitude and took a concubine. His wife joked … Read more
In one city the doctor once lived. His name was Gaspard Arneri. He was a scientist, and there was no one in his country wiser for him. The country where Gaspard Arneri lived was ruled by Three Fat Men, gluttonous and cruel. One summer, in June, a clear clear day the doctor goes for a … Read more
EL Doctorow Ragtime 1902 President of the United States – Teddy Roosevelt. City of Kew-Rochelle, New York. On the fashionable Avenue of Krugozor, in a house on a hill, lined with Norwegian maples, there is a family – Grandfather, Father, Mother, Baby and Younger Brother Mother (MBM). The life of the family is full of … Read more
Warings is the family home of the Hooper. He was bought by Edmund’s great-grandfather. There was not much money in the family, the land had to be sold with time, but the house remained. Now the grandfather who lived in Warings died, and Edmund and his father are moving there. Edmund’s father, Joseph, was widowed … Read more
Sevastopol in the month of December “The morning dawn is just beginning to paint the sky over Sapun Mountain, the dark blue sea surface has already thrown off the darkness of the night and is waiting for the first ray to sparkle with gay brilliance, from the bay it bears cold and fog, there is … Read more
IS Turgenev Smoke The life of Baden-Baden, a fashionable German resort, on August 10, 1862, differed little from life on other days of the season. The audience was cheerful and colorful. However, it was not difficult to single out our compatriots in it, especially near the “Russian tree”. It was here, at Weber’s coffeehouse, Litvinov’s … Read more
JH Updike Let’s get married A secluded beach on the Connecticut coast near the fictional city of Greenwood. Jerry Conant and Sally Matthias meet there secretly. Each of them has their own families, children, but they are irresistibly attracted to each other. Again and again they start talking about finding the strength to break with … Read more
AF Prevost History of the Chevalier de Grieux and Manon Lescot The story takes place in the era of the Regency (1715-1723), when the mores of French society were extremely free. With the cheerful and frivolous regent Philippe of Orleans in France, immediately began the reaction to the “lean” spirit that reigned under the elderly … Read more
In ancient times, when the Lord God walked still on the earth, it happened that one evening he was tired, he was caught in the night, and there was nowhere he could spend the night. And there were two houses on the road, one against the other; was one big and beautiful, and the other … Read more
LF Baum Rinkitink in Oz The island of Pingareea is in the Unknown Ocean, north of the kingdom of Rinkitinia, separated from the country of Oz by the Wicked Desert and the possessions of the King of the Dwarves. Pingareei is ruled by King Kitticut, and his subjects are mainly engaged in pearls, which they … Read more
VP Astafyev Lyudochka Fifteen years ago, the author heard this story, and he does not know why, she lives in it and burns her heart. “Maybe it’s all about her depressing routine, in her disarming simplicity?” It seems to the author that the heroine was called Lyudochka. She was born in a small endangered village … Read more
The play contains, as it were, two parallel actions. The first is social and the second is philosophical. Both actions develop in parallel, not intertwining. There are two planes in the play: external and internal. The external plan. In the doss house, owned by Mikhail Ivanovich Kostylev and his wife Vasilisa Karpovna, “the former people”, … Read more
The story takes place in 1928. The narrative is conducted from the first person; the narrator remembers his childhood many years later. Ten-year-old Sanka is an orphan: his father died in a civil war, his mother died of typhus. He lives in the village of Kamyshinka with his aunt Egoricha and Uncle Ivan. Aunt Egorich, … Read more
The narrator listened to these stories in Bessarabia, on the seashore. He then worked with a group of Moldovans. They went to the sea in the evening, and the narrator remained in the vineyard with the old woman Izergil. Moldovans walked and sang, they were cheerful and beautiful in the rays of the setting sun. … Read more
The novel is written in the form of a diary of the licentiate of medicine Tyuko Gabriel Glass. In his thirty-three years he never knew a woman. He does not hide that far from everything tells about himself, however he does not make a fool of himself, believing the diary of his thoughts and feelings. … Read more
Calm, free story about past events. The beginning, characteristic of Turgenev. On a winter evening, six people gathered at an old university friend. People, apparently, are not young and with education. Speech went by the way about Shakespeare, about the fact that his types are “snatched from the very depths of the human” essence. “Everyone … Read more
Main characters: mother, father, Oska – younger brother, Annushka, Marfusha, cousin Mitya, zemsky, director, Tsap-Tsarapich, inspector, Athos Recruit, Pharaoh, Joseph, Atlantis, Bindyug, Arkasha, Latin teacher – Tarakanus or Longer, the teacher of history “e-muet”, the teacher of French, the commissioner Chubarkov, three aunts, the military La Bazri de Bazan, Kirikov – the man with the … Read more
Chapter 1 Never Talk to Unknown People “Once in the spring, at an hour of an unusually hot sunset, two citizens appeared in Moscow, at the Patriarch’s Ponds.” “The first was none other than Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz, chairman of the board of one of the largest Moscow literary associations, abbreviated as MAC-CO LIT, and editor … Read more
The action takes place in revolutionary Petrograd in the winter of 1917/18. Petrograd, however, acts as a concrete city, and as the center of the universe, the place of cosmic cataclysms. The first of the twelve chapters of the poem describes the cold, snow-covered streets of Petrograd, tormented by wars and revolutions. People make their … Read more
Blaise Pascal Letters to the provincial These letters are a polemic of the author with the Jesuits, fierce persecutors of the supporters of the teachings of the Dutch theologian Jansen, who opposed the true believers to the rest of the masses formally accepting the church doctrine. In France, the mainstay of Jansenism was the Parisian … Read more
Sometimes there is not enough time to read the full work of one of the great classics of literature. Quickly get acquainted with it, the main characters will help a brief summary. “The Boy at Christ on the Christmas Tree” – a story written by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. In it, the famous writer shares his … Read more
So Huck returns to the kind widow Douglas. The widow meets him with tears and calls the lost sheep – but this, of course, is not from evil. And again, life on the phone, even at the table, relies first to mutter something over the food. Although the food is not bad, it’s a pity, … Read more
JH Updike Rabbit, run 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 … Read more
The happy engagement of Silvio, the son of Doctor Lombardi, with the young Clarice was able to take place only thanks to circumstance, in itself very unhappy – the death of Signor Federico Pozani, to whom Clarice had long been promised a wife by her father, Pantalone dei Bisognosi. Hardly, however, the fathers solemnly handed … Read more
To Sherlock Holmes, a young man named Hall Picrotha turns for help. Mr. Picrot for many years served in a brokerage firm that went bankrupt. After receiving excellent recommendations, he searched for work for a long time. Having spent all his savings and already despairing, Mr. Picroct suddenly took a place in a big banker’s … Read more
Everyone was preparing for the wedding of the prince and the beautiful princess, who was brought from faraway Russia. The Court Engineer at the far end of the garden prepared everything for fireworks. Petarda, the Roman Candle and the Fiery Roundabout discussed the world. A merry-go-round who was in love with a Christmas casket, believed … Read more