IA Bunin Antonov’s apples The author-narrator remembers the recent past. He recalled the early weathering autumn, the entire golden, dried up and thinned garden, the delicate aroma of fallen leaves and the smell of Antonov apples: the gardeners pour apples on carts to send them to the city. Late at night, when he ran out … Read more
The beginning of XX century. Gentle friendship connects two classmates – Jacques Thibault and Daniel de Fontaine. Opening one of the teachers correspondence between the boys leads to a tragedy. Insulted in the best of his school mentors, who roughly mastered his treasured “gray notebook” and vilestly interpreted friendship with Daniel, Jacques and his friend … Read more
In wars between the British and the French for the possession of American lands (1755-1763), opponents more than once used civil strife of Indian tribes. The time was difficult, cruel. Dangers lay in wait at every step. And it is not surprising that those traveling with Major Duncan Hayward to the commander of the beleaguered … Read more
Colomba della Rebbia is the daughter of a Corsican nobleman, a Napoleonic colonel who, after the fall of Napoleon, returned to Corsica and was killed there under unclear circumstances. K. is sure that the perpetrator of the crime is the enemy of her family and lawyer Barrakini, who became the local mayor after the restoration … Read more
Konstantin Fedorovich Dankevich The genus. in 1905 One of the greatest composers of Soviet Ukraine Dankevich has shown himself in many genres. His creative work is characterized by a deep understanding of the spirit of Ukrainian musical folklore. In this Dankevich follows the precepts of the classic Ukrainian music N. V. Lysenko. The composer is … Read more
“All respected,” Ivan Vasilievich recalls what happened long ago with him, which changed his whole life, he says that his whole life changed because of one morning, Ivan Vasilievich was passionately in love with Varenka B. She is now, at the age of fifty, a beautiful woman and she was a provincial student, she did … Read more
In the house of the wealthy squire Olverti, where he lives with his sister Bridget, throw up the baby. Squire, a few years ago, lost his wife and children, decides to raise a child as a son. Soon he manages to find the mother of the foundling, a poor country woman Jenny Jones. Olwerti can … Read more
The story takes place at the time of Stalin’s repressions, when millions of people caught in suspicion were found in GULAG camps, convicted of unreliability. This is a terrible time when the unofficial law acted: “not you, so you”. Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is under a heavy hammer of repression. He, as a “state criminal” and … Read more
AK Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles The famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend assistant Dr. Watson are examining a cane forgotten in an apartment on Baker Street by a visitor who came in their absence. Soon the host of the cane appears, the doctor James Mortimer, a young tall man with closely set … Read more
“Sandro from Chegem” is a cycle of 32 stories united by a place (Chegem village and its environs, like the neighbors, say, the regional center of Kungursk or the capital city of Mukhus (Sukhumi), and the distant ones – Moscow, Russia, etc.), time (XX century – from the beginning to the end of the seventies) … Read more