It was snowing. Putnitsa wandered around the frozen swamp, beginning to worry more and more. Those who sent her also did not expect snowfall, which unexpectedly began about two hours ago. Now Zoska had a clear trail, but soon it would be covered by snow. Worse, she lost her way. The expected forester was not … Read more
At the beginning of the novel we see a majestic image of the planet Earth against the backdrop of savannas of Equatorial Africa. A small tribe of Pithecanthropus begins to die out. Nature did not endow them with sharp claws or predatory fangs, but they possess the beginnings of consciousness. Probably, it was the ability … Read more
In the peasant’s hut, a terrible sorrow: the owner and breadwinner Prokla Sevastyanich died. The mother brings a coffin for her son, the father goes to the cemetery to hollow out the grave in the frozen ground. The widow of the peasant, Daria, sews the shroud to her late husband. Destiny has three heavy parts: … Read more
Winter in Petersburg in 1839 was with strong thaws. Sentry Postnikov, a soldier of the Izmaylovo Regiment, stood at his post. He heard that a man came to the wormwood and called for help. The soldier for a long time did not dare to leave his post, because this was a terrible violation of the … Read more
The gallant captain Jack Absolute is in love with the charming Lydia Langwish, and his friend Fockland has a passion for cousin Lydia Julia. The girls respond to the fans with fervent reciprocity, and, it seems, nothing prevents the cloudless happiness of the heroes. But this happiness was in jeopardy, as the characters of the … Read more
The main theme is the relationship between the teacher and the student, which changes during the narrative. The conflict begins with the delay of Savushkin in the lesson of the Russian language. This is the next delay of the student, which causes a young teacher to lose her temper. She decides to talk with his … Read more
The village girl Tanya wakes up from the cold. The mother has already risen and thunders. The wanderer who spent the night in their hut does not sleep either. He starts to ask Tanka, and the girl tells that they had to sell the cow and horse, there was only one calf. Sale of the … Read more
Palace of the King of Naples. Night. Don Juan comes from the Duchess Isabella, who takes him for her beloved Duke Octavio. She wants to light a candle, but don Juan stops her. Isabella suddenly realizes that with her was not Octavio, and calls for help. The King of Naples comes to the noise and … Read more
Pavel Durov, who is an artist of the original genre, spent the night on the penalty area of the traffic police in a provincial town. On his Zhiguli “ZIL” – pulled Bumper. Stay somewhere for the night Durovu simply nowhere. Durov reflects on why he travels throughout the country for no significant reason, he feels … Read more
In the Phoenician city of Sidon, the author meets a young man who tells him an unusual story of his love. A native of Tire, the young man Clitophon was already preparing to marry Kadligon – his daughter’s daughter from a second marriage. But here from the city of Byzantium sails his uncle Sostratus. And … Read more
NS Leskov At the knives Iosaph Platonovich Vislenev, who was sentenced in the past for political affairs, returns to the district town. He is met by Sister Larissa, the former bride of Alexandra Ivanovna, who later unexpectedly married General Sintyanin, whom “terrible glory” is about. Among those meeting also Major Forov, declaring that he would … Read more
Yury Ilyich, a research fellow at the Academic Research Institute, during the years of perestroika becomes the object of recruiting an organization that calls itself “the editorial office.” The editors who came to him directly to work, Igor Vasilyevich and Sergey Ivanovich, demand that he use their unusual abilities on their instructions: Yuri Ilyich is … Read more
John Milton Samson-wrestler Samson, blinded, humiliated and scolded, languishes in captivity with the Philistines, in the prison of the city of Gaza. Slave labor wears out his body, and spiritual suffering torments the soul. Neither day nor night Samson can not forget about what a glorious hero was before, and these memories inflict bitter torments … Read more
The work of Gogol “Dead Souls” was written in the second half of the 19th century. The first volume was published in 1842, the second volume was almost completely destroyed by the author. And the third volume was never written. The plot of the work was suggested to Gogol. The poem tells about the middle-aged … Read more
Over time, Yakov Sofronych realized: it all started with the suicide of Krivoy, their tenant. Before that, he quarreled with Skorokhodov and promised to inform that Kolyushka and Kirill Severyanich about politics are arguing. He, Krivoi, in the detective department serves. And he managed to poke himself out because he was thrown out from everywhere … Read more
JG Byron Manfred The philosophical tragedy Manfred, which became the debut of Byron-playwright, is perhaps the most profound and significant (along with the mystery “Cain”, 1821) from the poet’s works in the dialogic genre, with good reason is considered the apotheosis of Byron’s pessimism. The writer’s disagreeable dissonance with British society, which ultimately led him … Read more
Lyrical novel – the largest work of the writer – is written in an epistolary form. The name of the protagonist – Hyperion – refers to the image of a titan, the father of the sun god Helios, whose mythological name means High-Go. It seems that the action of the novel, which is a sort … Read more
The most complete aesthetics of the “ironic avant-garde” was expressed in V. Pietsukh’s story “The New Moscow Philosophy”. The presentation is conducted on behalf of the narrator, a person who is well-rounded, unhurried. He reflects on the relationship between life and literature, the importance of literature in the life of a Russian person. His reasoning … Read more
GNN. Vladimov Three minutes of silence Senka Shaly (Semyon Alekseevich) decided to change his life. Enough. To him already soon twenty-six – all youth in the sea remained. In the army in the navy he served, demobilized, decided before returning home to earn extra money in the sea, and so he remained on the Atlantic … Read more
Moliere Misanthrope With his temper, convictions and actions, Alzestes never ceased to amaze the people close to him, and now he even refused to consider even his old friend Filint as a friend – for the fact that he talked too warmly with a man whose name could only then be remembered with great difficulty. … Read more
On December 2, 1851, President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon I, made a coup d’etat by dissolving the National Assembly and arresting the figures of the parliamentary opposition. On December 4, the army suppressed the uprising that had begun in Paris, and many unarmed townspeople, including women and children, were killed. Victor Hugo was … Read more
G. Sienkiewicz Camo ridge? Rome of the times of Emperor Nero, mired in crimes and debauchery. A nephew, a young and beautiful warrior, the patrician Marcus Vinicius, is Petronius, a writer, an esthete, a connoisseur of luxury and pleasures, an “arbiter of grace”, the approximate Nero. The young man says that when he returned to … Read more
US Maugham The burden of human passions The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century. Nine-year-old Philip Carey remains an orphan, and he is sent for education to his uncle-priest in Blackstable. The priest does not feel affection for his nephew, but in his house Philip finds many books that help him … Read more
The story “The Chorus and Kalinich” by IS Turgenev was first published in 1847 in the journal Sovremennik. The work opens the cycle of the writer “Notes of the Hunter”, dedicated to the life of the simple Russian people. Turgenev’s story “The Chorus and Kalinych” refers to the literary realism direction. Main characters The chorus … Read more
F. M. Dostoevsky Uncle’s dream Marya Aleksandrovna Moskaleva, thanks to her unrivaled ability to throw dust into her eyes, “kill” her opponent with a sharp word and cleverly fired gossip, is recognized as the “first lady” of the provincial town of Mordasova. Hating and fearing, everyone, however, recognizes its influence. Her husband Athanasius Matveyevich, rustic … Read more
NN, an elderly man of the world, remembers the story that happened when he was about twenty-five. NN then traveled without a purpose and without a plan and on his way stopped in a quiet German town of N. Once NN, coming to a student’s party, met in a crowd with two Russian – a … Read more
V. Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow On the eastern shore of the Hudson, in the depths of one of the bays, there is a village, not far from it there is a hollow, which for its quiet and serenity, and also for the phlegmatic disposition of its inhabitants, was called Sleepy. The place seems … Read more
Two generals found themselves on an uninhabited island. “Generals have served all their lives in some registry, they were born, educated and grown old, therefore, did not understand anything, even the words did not know anything except:” Accept the assurance of my full respect and devotion. ” They came to the island dressed in nightgowns, … Read more
The adult Ilya Ilyich, although later learns that there are no honey and dairy rivers, there are no good sorceresses, although he jokes with a smile over the stories of a nanny, but this smile is not sincere, it is accompanied by a secret sigh: the tale is mixed with life, and he unconsciously sad … Read more
A. N. Ostrovsky Forest In the estate of Raisa Pavlovna Gurmyzhskaya, “a very wealthy landowner”, Bulanov, “a young man who did not finish school in a gymnasium”, pestered Aksyusha’s pupil. Aksyusha leaves, and lackey Karp hints to Bulanov: do not he pay attention to the lady herself. At this time, Gurmyzhskaya herself appears and, along … Read more
The narrator sits in a second-class coach of the Ekosuka-Tokyo train and waits for the signal to depart. At the last second a village girl of about thirteen-fourteen with a rough, weather-beaten face runs into the car. Putting a knot on the knees with things, she squeezes a third-class ticket in her frozen hand. The … Read more
Paul Scarron Jodle, or Master Servant The play takes place in Madrid. Don Juan Alvarado flew to the capital from his native Burgos for a date with the bride. The young nobleman did not stop even the family’s misfortune: on his return from Flanders, don Juan learned that his older brother was insidiously killed, and … Read more
One day Ermolai invited me to go to Lgov – to hunt for ducks. Lgov is a large village on the marshy river Rosote. About 5 versts from Lgov this river turns into a wide pond, overgrown with thick reeds. There were countless ducks of all possible breeds on this pond. It was difficult to … Read more
The retired Major-General Buldeev’s teeth ached. No matter how many people treated the general with different folk remedies, all domesticated, nothing could stop the raging toothache. Even a doctor came, registered a queen, but that alone did not help. On the offer to snatch the tooth Buldeev refused. And then Ivan Evseich, the clerk of … Read more
Yu. V. Trifonov A house on the embankment The action takes place in Moscow and unfolds in several time frames: the mid-1930s, the second half of the 1940s, the early 1970s. The scientist, literary critic Vadim Aleksandrovich Glebov, who has agreed in the furniture store to buy an antique table, comes there and in search … Read more
The poor woodcutter brought a baby with an amber necklace around his neck wrapped in a cloak with golden stars, he found it in a winter forest at the place where the star fell. My wife at first was against an extra mouth, but then surrendered and raised him as her own son. The boy … Read more
The program is recommended and saturated with biblical motifs “The Tale of the Babylonian Kingdom”. This legend can be regarded as a kind of monument of the literature of the 15th century, a transitional genre from legend to narrative narrative. It tells how King Levky-Vasily sent three young men: the Greek Gugriya, the “obazhanin” Yakov … Read more
By the lips of his hero, the provincial lawyer Abel Brétodo, the author, year after year, from 1953 to 1967, chronicles the daily life of the family. According to Abel, novelists usually only care about the beginning and end of love, but not its middle. “And where, you ask, is the marriage life itself?” he … Read more
Voltaire Zadig, or Fate Devoting his story to the Marquise de Pompadour, which Voltaire calls the Sultan of Sheraa, the writer himself appears under the name of the poet Saadi, a classic of oriental literature. In the work the author uses elements so popular in the XVIII century. genre of travel, as well as fiction … Read more
B. L. Vasiliev The lists did not appear Part one For all his life Kolya Pluzhnikov did not meet so many pleasant surprises, how many had fallen in the last three weeks. The order to confer on him, Nikolai Petrovich Pluzhnikov, was waiting for military rank for a long time, but unexpected surprises sprang up … Read more
Muriel Spark Miss Jean Brodie in the prime of life The heroine of the novel – six girls-schoolgirls, united in the “Brodie clan” by the will of their beloved teacher, Miss Gene Brodie. The action takes place in Edinburgh in the thirties. Miss Brodie leads a class of little girls in the elementary branch of … Read more
Arthur Miller It happened in Vichy Action takes place in France in 1942. Pre-trial detention. Several men and a boy of fifteen are sitting on the bench, anxiety and fear are on their faces, all of them were seized right on the street and German soldiers were brought here. Detainees are lost in conjecture – … Read more
Each of those living on earth is the result of countless additions: four thousand years ago in Crete love could begin, which ended yesterday in Texas. Every life is a moment, open to eternity, Wolfe says. And here is one of them… Eugene Gant is a descendant of the Englishman Gilbert Gant, who arrived in … Read more
Albert at all costs wants to get to the knight tournament. Having examined the helmet, he sees that he is pierced, spoiled, impossible to wear. Alter is angry with Count Delorme, who has spoiled his helmet. Ivan calms the Master, worthy of his revenge on the offender – the Count barely rose through the sutki. … Read more
Part one. Drops of blood The eyes of the fiery serpent are falling on the river Skoroden and the naked virgins bathing there. They are the sisters Elisaveta and Elena, the daughters of the rich landowner Rameyev. They are discussing with curiosity the appearance in the city of the privat-docent, doctor of chemistry Georgi Sergeevich … Read more
NV Gogol Nevsky Prospekt Here you will find everything you want. In the morning it is for employees; from 12 – for tutors and children; from 2 pm – for parents and society. Nevsky Prospect is an exhibition of people. At 3 o’clock here dinner officials, and with 4 empty, but in the evening walkers … Read more
May 20, 1859, Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov, a forty-three-year-old landowner who was already middle-aged, worried, awaits his son Arkady, who had just graduated from the university, at the inn. Nikolai Petrovich was the son of a general, but his military career did not take place. Nikolai Petrovich early married a daughter of an ignorant official and … Read more
FM Dostoevsky The idiot The novel takes place in St. Petersburg and Pavlovsk late 1867 – early 1868. Prince Leo Nikolayevich Myshkin comes to Petersburg from Switzerland. He is twenty-six years old, he is the last of the noble noble family, he was orphaned early, as a child he fell ill with a serious nervous … Read more
The young senior lieutenant Galtsev, the interim commander of the battalion, was awakened in the middle of the night. A boy of about twelve was detained near the shore, all wet and shivering from the cold. Galtsev’s strict questions are answered only by the fact that his name is Bondarev, and demands immediately to report … Read more
NURNBERG MASTERZINGERS Opera in three acts (four scenes) R. Wagner’s libretto Characters: Meistersingers: Hans Sachs, shoemaker Faith Pogner, goldsmith Kunz Vogelsang, the Skinner Conrad Nachtigal, tinsmith Sixt Beckmesser, city clerk Fritz Kotner, baker Balthasar Zorn, Tin Works Master Ulrich Aislinger, a spice dealer Augustine Moser, tailor Hermann Ortel, soap maker Hans Schwartz, stocking Hans Foltz, … Read more