L. N. Tolstoy Sevastopol stories Sevastopol in the month of December “The morning dawn is just beginning to color the sky over Sapun Mountain, the dark blue sea surface has already thrown off the
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
Quiet life in a rural manor, “old good England.” Reginald Wellard is happy – he is married to a beautiful woman, so beautiful that outsiders, after seeing her, cry out with delight. He is
In the autumn of 1804, on the immense expanses of the American prairies – ever farther to the west, farther from the already inhabited lands – a train of stubborn, unpretentious immigrants was slowly
In the neighborhood of Rochester, an ancient town southeast of London, lived a seven-year-old boy, nicknamed Pip. He was left without parents, and his “own hands” raised by an older sister who “possessed a
Prague, the beginning of the century. The narration is from the first person. The hero is not sleeping, or awake. Moonlight falls in the foothold of his bed. The hero feels that his sleeping
“Listen, Valerian,” said the hussar lieutenant colonel Gremin to his friend Major Strelinsky, “do you remember that black-eyed lady who drove all the young people crazy at the ball with the French envoy three
“Let the man know what he is worth, let him love himself, for he is capable of good,” “let him despise himself, for the ability for good remains in him in vain” … “A
G. E. Lessing Emilia Galotti Prince Gonzaga, the ruler of the Italian province of Guastella, examines the portrait of Countess Orsin, a woman whom he loved until quite recently. He was always with her
You can not find this lake on the map. It is small, but memorable, Vasyutkino. Far from every lake has its own name, because our Motherland is immense and immense. Fishermen from the brigade