Hermann Hesse Beads game The action takes place in the distant future. The infallible Master of the Games and the hero of Castalia, Josef Knecht, having reached the limits of formal and substantial perfection in the game of the spirit, feels frustrated and then disappointed and leaves Kastalia in a harsh world beyond to serve … Read more
Начиная рассказ о приключениях своих героев, автор обсуждает два типа отображения действительности. “Историки” довольствуются списыванием с натуры, а “биографы”, к которым причисляет себя и автор, видят свою задачу в описании не людей, а нравов, не конкретных индивидуумов, а вида в целом. The ten-year-old Joseph Andrews was sent to the service of Sir Thomas Bubi. His … Read more
In a certain kingdom, Ivan Tsarevich lived in a certain state. He had three sisters: Marya Tsarevna, Olga Tsarevna, Anna Tsarevna. Their parents died, and before his death they ordered his son to give out his sisters to those who would first woo. Once Ivan Tsarevich walked with his sisters in the garden. Suddenly a … Read more
Manor in the Carpathian Mountains. Here, after marrying and deciding to settle down and take up farming, a wizard settled. He is in love with his wife and promises to live like everyone else, but the soul asks for something magical, and the owner of the estate is unable to keep from “pranks.” And now … Read more
Holmes and I were sitting in his apartment on Baker Street and reasoned that “life is incomparably more bizarre than anything that the human imagination can create.” Looking out the window, he stated that he seemed to see one of his future clients. Soon a doorbell rang. An excited woman entered “in a heavy fur-bearing … Read more
William Shakespeare Macbeth Location – England and Scotland. The time of action is the 11th century. The tragedy begins with a conversation between the three witches, who are discussing when they come together again – decide to get together “as soon as the battle ends with the victory of the side of one.” In a … Read more
The second story of the tetralogy tells about the company of classmates: Kartashev, Kornev, Dolba, Berendya, Lario and Darcy. Friends have common interests. First, the company is divided into two “parties”, grouped around the reputable leaders Kartashev and Kornev. The initial confrontation goes into rapprochement, and then into close friendship. Friends are arguing on all … Read more
France, the late 20-ies. our century. The hero of the novel is a young Russian emigre, the narrative is conducted on his behalf. He’s in love with Claire. Claire is a pure Frenchwoman, she teases the admirer, then he allows him to hope for his favor. She is sick, and the hero stays with her … Read more
Maxim Gorky Mother The novel takes place in Russia in the early 1900s. In the workers’ suburb live factory workers with families, and the whole life of these people is inextricably linked with the factory: in the morning, with a factory whistle, workers rush to the factory, in the evening it throws them out of … Read more
The Alexandrian sheikh Ali Banu was very rich, but very unhappy man: the Franks took his son Kayram, and the boy had no news, and his wife died of grief. Every year, on the day of Kayram’s abduction, the sheikh cleaned the house as a holiday, for the dervish said that on the same day … Read more
The time and place of action of the playwright are not defined, but by all signs events in all three acts occur in the modern author era. The house of the minister. Gol, emphasizing his rights as an old friend of the family, urgently demands from his master’s host Irene to urgently talk with her … Read more
With honors, Wilhelm graduated from the boarding school. Now relatives want to identify him in the newly opened Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum. At Minister Razumovsky at the reception, he meets with Vanya Pushchin, Misha Yakovlev, Anton Delvig. Pushkin Vasily Lvovich brings his nephew Sasha there. In 1811, on the nineteenth of October, the Lyceum was opened. … Read more
A grief happened in the family. His wife Nadenka lost her sanity, and maybe her life. And the fault was their beloved daughter Olenka, or rather her egoism. When was the mistake made, why did the daughter grow up like this, because all the love of the parents was given to her? Once upon a … Read more
L. N. Tolstoy War and Peace The book begins in the summer of 1805 in St. Petersburg. At the evening, the maid of honor Scherer is present among other guests Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a wealthy nobleman, and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. The conversation is about Napoleon, and both friends are trying to protect … Read more
Corneille was born in Rouen, in the family of an official. He graduated from the Jesuit College, received a lawyer position. Once, as the legend tells, one of Corneille’s friends introduced him to his lover, but she preferred Pierre to her former admirer. This story prompted Corneille to write a comedy. Thus appeared his “Melita” … Read more
The protagonist of the narrative, on whose behalf the story is narrated, comes to a seaside resort with the intention of staying there for a long time and fully enjoying the desired rest. He had just received his doctorate, and the young lady he was courting married to another. He feels that the whole chapter … Read more
The action takes place at the beginning of the XIX century. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the protagonist. In the secluded quarter of Geneva, in a house located near St. Paul’s Cathedral and the episcopal prison, a young contemplative is growing up, who soon lost his parents and his guarded uncle. He studies … Read more
Four parts of the novel, four fantastic travels described by Jonathan Swift. “The Adventures of Gulliver” is a utopian work, the author of which wanted to portray modern England to him and using satire to ridicule those or other human qualities. The protagonist constantly sails from the existing port cities, and gets into exotic countries … Read more
Professor Stepan Stepanovich Lozhkin, who spent his entire life successfully dealing with literary monuments of heresies and sects of the XV-XVI centuries, suddenly began to visit “a dangerous thought.” His existence: lecturing, working on manuscripts, relations with his wife – seems to him monotonous and “automatic.” Malvina Eduardovna, being frightened of the manifestations of her … Read more
The biggest house on the Arbat is between Nikolsky and the Money Lanes. In it there live four former classmates. Three of them: Sasha Pankratov, the secretary of the Komsomol cell of the school, the son of the lifter Maxim Kostin and Nina Ivanova – were a cohesive group of activists in the school. They … Read more
JM Barry Peter Pan The Darling family has three children-pogodkov. The older one is Wendy, then John goes, and then Michael. They have an unusual nanny – a big black diver dog named Nana. One evening, going into the bedroom to the children who were already in bed, Mrs. Darling sees a boy coming into … Read more
One autumn, two crews were traveling along the main road. In the front carriage were two women. One was a mistress, thin and pale. Another maid, rosy and full. She folded her hands on her knees and closed her eyes, swaying weakly on the pillows and coughing. She wore a white night cap, parted straight … Read more
The action of the poem covers the time from the beginning to the 60s. XIX century. and occurs in Norway, on the Moroccan coast of the Mediterranean, in the Sahara desert, in a crazy house in Cairo, at sea and again in Norway, in the homeland of the hero. A young country boy, Per Gynt, … Read more
The case, which turned out to be extremely painful for Commissioner Mehre, began with an anonymous letter: an unknown person reported that a murder would soon take place. Megre immediately notices the expensive vellum paper of an unusual format. Thanks to this circumstance, it is possible to quickly find out that the letter was sent … Read more
The action takes place in the Kartashovs’ house. The head of the family is retired general Nikolai Kartashev. The harsh nature and the alignment of Nicholaev’s general Kartashev the elder give a definite direction to the upbringing of children, among whom the subject, the eldest in the family of boys, turns out to be the … Read more
“The Republic of ShKID” is one of the most famous books for children in Soviet literature. This autobiographical work written by a tandem of authors – Grigory Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev (real name – Alexei Eremeev). The book tells about the years spent at the boarding school for difficult children. But there is a book … Read more
“Of course, it’s not difficult to lose a galosh in a tram”. In a tram after all the crush, crowd and on feet come. The narrator went into the tram in two galoshes, and left – in one. “I took off the rest of the galoshes, wrapped it in a newspaper and went like this.” … Read more
V. M. Hugo Les Miserables In 1815, the bishop of the city of Dinja was Charles-Francois Míriel, nicknamed for good deeds by Zhelanný – Bienvenu. This unusual man in his youth had a lot of love adventures and led a secular life – but the Revolution has broken everything. Mr. Míriel went to Italy, from … Read more
“… madness and horror. The first time I felt it when we were walking along the Ensk road – we walked ten hours continuously, without slowing down the course, not picking up the fallen and leaving them to the enemy who was moving behind us and after three or four hours washing our traces feet … Read more
A. V. Vampilov. Elder son. Two young people – medical student Busygin and sales agent Semyon, nicknamed Silva, – priodararili for unknown girls. Conducting those to the house, but not finding further hospitality, which they counted on, they find that they were late for the train. The time later, on the street is cold, and … Read more
The trilogy covers the period from 1310 to 1349 when the plague devastated Europe reached Norway. Father Christine came from a Swedish family, known as the Sons of Lagman. Three generations of this family lived in Norway, but at times they were reminded that they were strangers here. At the age of eighteen, Laurence, the … Read more
M. M. de Lafayette Princess Klevskaya The novel takes place in the middle of the 16th century. Madame de Chartres, for many years after her husband’s death, lived away from the court, and her daughter comes to Paris. Mademoiselle de Chartres goes to the jeweler to choose jewelry. There she accidentally meets the Prince of … Read more
A huge dirty school room. Classes are over, and bursaks play games. Most recently, the “period of violent education” ended, when everyone, regardless of age, had to undergo a full course of science. Now the “law of overgrown age” began to operate: after reaching a certain age, a bursak is expelled from school, and he … Read more
The narrative is alternated on behalf of two artists – Dedov and Ryabinin, contrasted with each other. Grandfather, a young engineer, having received a small inheritance, leaves the service to devote himself entirely to painting. He works hard, writes and writes landscapes and is perfectly happy if he manages to capture a spectacular play of … Read more
The word about the Grand Duke Dmitri Ivanovich and his brother, Prince Vladimir Andreevich, how they defeated the adversary of his Tsar Mamai. Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich and his brother, Prince Vladimir Andreevich, was at the feast of the Moscow governor. And he said: “The news came to us, brothers, that King Mamai is standing … Read more
The jets of the outgoing river… They are continuous; but they are all not the same, old waters. Through the windmills floating foam bubbles… they then disappear, they will contact again, but for a long time to stay – is not given to them. People that are born, that they die… where do they come … Read more
A rich merchant is going to set up trade affairs in the far-away kingdom, in the thirtieth state. Before leaving, he asks his three daughters what kind of gifts they should bring. The eldest asked for a golden crown, the middle mirror of crystal, and the youngest – the most beloved – a scarlet flower, … Read more
Once in the spring I was sitting in the Mariinsky Park and reading Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Sister Galya sat next to her and also read. Her summer hat with green ribbons lay on a bench. The wind moved the tapes, Galya was shortsighted, very trusting, and it was almost impossible to get her out of … Read more
The novel “Autumn Light” takes place in the American province, far from the big cities. The quiet life of small towns, far from the senseless fuss and the frenzied rhythm of megacities, is not alien to the “accursed” problems of technocratic civilization, the dark, vile sides of big business and big politics. Heroes of the … Read more
London, the middle of the XVI century. On the same day, two boys are born – Tom, the son of the thief John Kenti, huddling in the stinking cul-de-sac Yard Courtyard, and Edward, heir to King Henry the Eighth. Edward is waiting for all of England, Tom does not really need even his own family, … Read more
The storm broke the ship on which the daughter of King Lanka Ratnavali was sailing, intended for the wife of the king of the Vats Udayana. Grasping at the board, Ratnavali escaped, and, found on the shore, she was placed under the name of Sagarika in the care of the first wife of Udayana, Queen … Read more
Krasheninnikov (Krosh). Ivan Semenovich is a school superintendent who always steals a school truck for economic needs. Natalia Pavlovna is a class teacher. Vyacheslav Petrovich – chief engineer, head of practice. Dmitry Alexandrovich – foreman of locksmiths, looks like a Spaniard. Lagutin is a mechanic, an unpleasant type, a rude, dragging out details and driving. … Read more
Prayer before the dam “A poet in Russia is more than a poet.” The author sums up everything that happened before, humbly kneeling, asks for help from the great Russian poets… Give, Pushkin, your melodiousness and your ability, as it were, to burn with a verb. Give, Lermontov, your glance. Give, Nekrasov, the pain of … Read more
The main city of Sichuan Province, which summarizes all the places on the globe and any time in which a person exploits a person, is the place and time of the play. Prologue. For two thousand years the cry has not ceased: it can not go on like this! Nobody in this world is able … Read more
In these parts of the trains went from west to east and back. On both sides of the railway there was a great desert steppe – Sary-Ozeki. Yedigei worked at the Boranly-Burannyi exit. At night, to inform about Kazangap’s death, his wife, Ukubala, crept into his booth. Yedigei was demobilized thirty years ago, after concussion, … Read more
Kalidasa Cloud-Herald A certain yakshas, a demigod of the suite of the wealth god and the ruler of the northern mountains of Kubera, exiled by his master for some offense far to the south, at the end of summer, when all who are out of the house, especially yearning for their loved ones, sees a … Read more
Chekhov was then Antosh Chekhonte, and the author-narrator was a little schoolboy. In the summer the boy with his friend Zhenya disappears in the Neskuchny garden. They built wigwams, played Indians. Then they moved to the Eskimos, engaged in fishing in the Meshchansky Garden in the ponds (at the Meshchansky School). Karasay was very much, … Read more
Moscow. December 1946. Evening. Great Hall of the Conservatory. Victor sits down on the empty seat next to the girl. The girl tells him that the place is occupied, since she came with a friend. However, Victor shows her his ticket and describes the girl who sold it to him. In it, Gel – and … Read more
To Sherlock Holmes, Dr Percy Trevelyan is asking for help. Having graduated with honors from the University, the young doctor wanted to devote himself to the research of nervous illnesses, even wrote a monogram, but he did not have the means to carry out his plans. Suddenly, a certain Mr. Blessington came to him, suffering … Read more
Captain Gerillo was ordered to help the people of Badam to fight the invasion of ants. The captain suspected that the authorities simply mock him. He was a Creole and had a purely Portuguese notion of etiquette and discipline. He trusted only Holroyd and Lancashire, a young engineer on the ship. In this journey through … Read more