The stories that the author tells his readers, he heard in Bessarabia, working with Moldovans to collect grapes. One evening, having finished working, all the workers went to the sea, and in the shade of the grapes only the author and an elderly woman named Izergil were left to rest. The evening came, the shadows … Read more
For the first time we meet with the main characters of the novel, Alina and Louis Davromel, during their divorce proceedings. Twenty years they lived together, gave birth to four children, but at forty-four years, Louis decided to start a new life with a young Odile, whom he has known for five years, and to … Read more
V. O. Pelevin Chapayev and Void One of the fundamental things Pelevin built around one of the most fundamental psychological images, around the archetype of the quadrice. In one ward of the psychiatric hospital are four patients. Everyone alternately tells his story, or rather, not a story, but describes his world. In one of the … Read more
“Foma Pukhov is not gifted with sensitivity: he cut his boiled sausage on the coffin of his wife, starving because of the absence of the hostess.” After the burial of his wife, Pukhov goes to bed, having taken a nap. Someone is knocking at him loudly. The watchman of the office of the head of … Read more
AP Gaidar RV S. Settled and dilapidated sheds, where the Germans brought hay and straw. Ataman Krivolob shot four Muscovites and one Ukrainian here, so the boys are afraid to play here. Not afraid only Dimka: from hiding in the barn two cartridge rounds, a ramrod from the rifle and a rusty Austrian bayonet without … Read more
A. Chekhov A Boring Story Professor of Medicine Nikolai Stepanovich is a scientist who has reached the heights of his science, enjoying universal respect and gratitude; his name is known to every literate person in Russia. He who wears this name, that is himself, is an old man, incurably sick, to live according to his … Read more
GNVladimov Big ore Viktor Pronyakin stood over a giant oval pit of a quarry. Shadows of clouds walked along the ground in a jamb, but not one could cover the entire quarry, the entire motley, moving crowd of cars and people below. “It can not be that I’m not caught here,” thought Pronyakin. But it … Read more
A certain pious man was cast by the wicked in the dungeon, and there was a vision for him: In the middle of the field, with his back to his dwelling in the city, Death is a man bent under the heavy burden of sins. In his hands is the Book. From the Book this … Read more
Chapter 1 Eugene Onegin, “a young rake,” is going to receive his uncle’s inheritance. Should a biography of Eugene Onegin. The fate of Eugene kept: First madame followed him, Then monsieur changed it. When the youth rebellious Eugene came to the time, the time of hope and sadness, tender, Monsieur drove out of the yard. … Read more
JRR Tolkien The Lord of the Rings Sixty years have passed since the return of Hobbit Bilbo Baggins to the Shire. He is one hundred and ten years old, but outwardly he does not change at all. This brings the wizard Gandalf to a frightening thought: the magic Ring, stolen by Bilbo from Gollum, is … Read more