Wilhelm Gauf is a well-known German novelist and writer. We know him because of his wonderful fairy tales. The story of their creation is interesting: he wrote them when he worked as a tutor in the family of the Minister of Defense. The tale “Little Muck”, the summary of which is given here, was included … Read more
Leaving his young wife, Don Elvira, Don Juan rushed to chase after another captivating beauty. He was not at all embarrassed that in the city where he had arrived on her tracks and where he intended to kidnap her, six months earlier the commander had been killed by him – and what to worry if … Read more
The young Count Federigo Confalonieri is a recognized idol of the secular youth of Milan. He is listened to, he is imitated in clothes and habits, and his dexterity in fencing, dancing and riding is admirable. The count is clever, penetrating, ambitious, he has the imperious carriage and the proud grace of movements, and the … Read more
Once Zoshchenko was with Gorky. And so Gorky says to him: but what would you, Mikhal Mikhalych and all that, not write here in this fantastic, if I may say so, manner the whole history of mankind? To, therefore, your hero, a man in the street, understood everything and got it out of your work, … Read more
As if in the distant past, the author peeped, having communicated with the one-man Luke Petrovich Ovsyannikov – a full man of 70 years. Straight-hearted and stubborn, he resembled the dimensionality of his life and the degree of behavior of the old boyars, although it was simpler, and also shaved his beard. To the author’s … Read more
A few months from the life of the so-called intellectual elite of London. Receptions, meetings, visits, travel… Friendly conversations, fundamental disputes, secular gossip, family and love troubles… In music, a kind of polyphony is called a counterpoint, in which all the voices are equal. And this principle is observed in the novel Huxley. There are … Read more
Joseph Conrad Nostromo The city of Sulako, the capital of the Western Province of the South American Republic of Costa Rica, is located on the shores of the extensive Gulf of Placido Bay. The smooth arc of the coast of the bay on one side is bounded by the cape of Puente Mal, on the … Read more
1 “What, Peter? Not to see yet?” – asked May 20, 1859, leaving without a hat on the low porch of the inn… a gentleman of about forty, in a dusty coat and checkered trousers, with his servant, young and cheeky small with whitish down on his chin and small dull eyes. A servant in … Read more
Healing of Elijah of Murom Ilya, a peasant son, lives in the city of Murom, in the village of Karacharovo. He sits for thirty years and can not rise, because he does not own hands or feet. One day, when his parents leave and he remains alone, two cadavers of people stop by the windows … Read more
Returning home, the soldier met a sorceress. So sent him to a hollow where in 3 rooms of 3 chests guarded by terrible dogs, he could collect copper coins, silver and gold, having first planted dogs on the old woman’s checkered apron. For this she asked me to bring her a flint located there. After … Read more