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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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