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 darkness of the night and is waiting for the first ray to sparkle with gay brilliance, from the bay it bears … Read more
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 never marry anyone except his … Read more
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 forty years old, she is twenty-five; he adores her, and she seems to him, too. In his youth, Reginald lived hard: … Read more
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 moving forward. The head of the family, phlegmatic uhleny Ishmael Bush, was looking out for a place to sleep. But the … Read more
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 rare ability to pay purity into something more uncomfortable and unpleasant than any mud.” With Pip, she addressed as if he … Read more
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 body lies in bed, and “the feelings are separated from the body and do not depend on him anymore” … Suddenly … Read more
“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 years ago?” This conversation took place in 182 … on the day of winter Nikola, not far from Kiev, where the … Read more
“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 purely mathematical mind will only work properly if it knows all the definitions and beginnings in advance, otherwise it becomes confused … Read more
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 easily, joyfully and cheerfully. Now he feels different. The Prince looks at the portrait and hopes to find in it something … Read more
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 Vasyutkin’s father – Grigory Afanasevich Shadrin – quite dejected. Because of the frequent autumn rains the fish began to be poorly … Read more