American Robert Jordan, voluntarily participating in the civil war in Spain on the side of the Republicans, receives a mission from the center – to blow up the bridge before the offensive. A few days before the offensive, he must conduct at the location of the partisan detachment of a certain Pablo. About Pablo say … Read more
When you open at random a book of Bunin’s poems, lazily looking through the lines of the lines, and the familiar images are as always good and fresh as if they were meeting them for the first time: the sadness at sunset, and the “forest as if painted,” and simple but deep and sonorous rhymes … Read more
Sun Jin-hua, a fifteen-year-old prostitute, sits at home and gnaws watermelon seeds. From time to time she looks at a small bronze crucifix hanging on the wall of her wretched little room, and hope appears in her eyes. Jin-hua is a Catholic. She became a prostitute to feed herself and her father’s old man. Jin-hua … Read more
The play takes place in Paris in the age of Louis XIV. Action first The stage represents the Palais Royal Theater. At the junction of two latrines, at the curtain with which they are separated, the enormous size of a harpsichord. In the first restroom there are a lot of tallow candles. In the second … Read more
In one village, near the Bludov bog, near the city of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, two children were orphaned. Their mother died of illness, his father died in the Patriotic War. We lived in this village only through one house from children. And of course, we, too, together with other neighbors, tried to help them, than they could. … Read more
Edgar Allan Poe was the very first professional American author. Before him, none of the writers tried to live their craft. He infinitely rules and rewrote his texts, so every word in Poe’s stories is at least the result of the third or fourth edits. He knew the value of art very well. Of course, … Read more
IS Turgenev Notes of the hunter: Bezhin meadow The story begins with a description of a magnificent summer morning. The author hunts in the woods. After shooting game, he decides to return home in the evening, but loses the road in the darkness and goes to Bezhin meadow, where he sees a fire, and around … Read more
LN Andreev Life of Basil of Theveys As an ant – a grain of sand to a grain of sand – Father Vasily built his life: he married, became a priest, produced a son and daughter. After seven years, life crumbled to dust. Drowned in the river by his son, his wife began to drink … Read more
Astrid Lindgren composed a fairy tale evening after night about the girl Peppi for her daughter Karin, who was sick at that time. The name for the main character, long and difficult to pronounce for a Russian person, was invented by the writer’s daughter herself. This fairy tale in 2015 turned sixty years old, and … Read more
IA Bunin Cursed days In 1918-1920 Bunin recorded in the form of diary notes his immediate observations and impressions of the events in Russia at that time. Here are some fragments: Moscow, 1918. January 1 (old style). This damned year is over. But what’s next? Maybe something even more terrible. Even probably so… February 5th. … Read more