One autumn, returning from the hunt, I fell ill. Fever caught me in the hotel of a county town. I sent for the doctor. The county physician was a man of small stature, thin and black-haired. We talked, and he told me a story I bring here. Once, in the great fast, the doctors were … Read more
The action in the drama takes place in three Swiss cantons, which are located around the Firvaldshtetski Lake and were previously free, and now they are claimed by Austria. This led to a conflict between the Swiss and the Landsgoths (governors of the Austrian emperor). Residents of each of the three cantons have their resistance … Read more
Leo Tolstoy Death of Ivan Ilyich In the break of the meeting, the members of the Trial Chamber learn from the newspaper about the death of Ivan Ilyich Golovin, which followed on February 4, 1882 after several weeks of incurable illness. The companions of the deceased, who loved him, involuntarily count the possible relocation in … Read more
In early August 1941 Rodion Chubar, chairman of the Veremeykovsky collective farm, convened the last general meeting. The Germans were advancing, and it was necessary, according to Stalin’s directive, to steal a collective herd far away, so that the enemy would not get it. The drivers were the deputy chairman of the collective farm Denis … Read more
Poor woodcutter brought in the baby home with an amber necklace around her neck wrapped in a cloak with gold stars – he found it in the winter forest on the spot falling stars (other woodcutters refused to carry home freeloader). My wife at first was against an extra mouth, but then surrendered and raised … Read more
Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century (in the years immediately preceding the beginning of the First World War) in Switzerland, in a tuberculosis sanatorium located near Davos. The title of the novel evokes associations with Mount Gerzelberg (Sinful, or Magic, Mountain), where, according to legend, … Read more
The action takes place in Florence. Constriction is the conversation of Kallimako with his servant Shiro, addressed, in fact, to the audience. The young man explains why he returned to his native city from Paris, where he was taken away at the age of ten. In a friendly company, the French and Italians started a … Read more
Five years ago, in the autumn, on the road from Moscow to Tula, I had to sit almost all day in the postal house for a lack of horses. With cold despair I looked out the window when a small cart stopped in front of the porch. A 30-year-old man entered the room with a … Read more
Events develop two and a half years after visiting the shorts of Sunny City Znayka, along with their scientists, Selyedochka and Fuchsia from the Sun City, flew to the moon and wanted to fly by himself. This idea is very interested in the astronomer Steklyashkin and other residents of the Flower City. Znayka wrote a … Read more
It would seem, what else does the respectable bourgeois, Mr. Jourdain, need? Money, family, health – everything you can wish for, he has. So in fact, no, thought the Jourdain to become an aristocrat, become like the noble masters. His mania caused a lot of inconvenience and excitement to the household, but was in the … Read more