In the center of the narrative are two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Endless vicissitudes of their love (“sensitive”) experiences and languor and will form the plot of the novel. But let us start from the beginning and try to understand the intricate plot lines and related ties of the characters. Outside the narrative, a … Read more
The Queen, the wife of Meliadouk, King Loonua, was released from the burden by a boy and died, barely having kissed her son and called his name Tristan, for he was born in sorrow. The baby was entrusted to the Governor by the King, and soon married again. The boy grew strong and handsome like … Read more
The action takes place on a September evening in an English provincial house that resembles a ship in its shape, for its owner, the gray-haired old captain Shatover, spent his entire life swimming across the seas. In the house, except for the captain, live his daughter Hesiona, a very beautiful forty-five-year-old woman, and her husband … Read more
Aristophanes Lysistrata The name “Lysistrata” means “The Destroyer of War.” Such a name gave Aristophanes the heroine of her fantastic play about how women, with their feminine means, achieved what men could not, put an end to a great war. The war was between Athens and Sparta, it lasted ten years, Aristophanes was speaking against … Read more
After receiving a doctor’s diploma, Dr. Watson leaves to fight in Afghanistan. After the injury, he returns to London. Being cramped in funds, Watson is looking for an inexpensive apartment. A familiar paramedic acquaints him with a worker in the chemical laboratory at Sherlock Holmes Hospital, who rented an inexpensive apartment and is looking for … Read more
Ak and crunches in me! Nice frost! said the snowman. “The wind is biting the wind!” Simply love! And what are you staring at, ogre-eyed? – This is what he said about the sun, which just came. “But, come on, come on!” I will not blink! We’ll stand! Instead of his eyes, two shards of … Read more
Mikhail Zoschenko Michel Sinyagin Michael Sinyagin was born in 1887. For the imperialist war, he did not fall due to the infringement of the hernia. He writes poems in the spirit of the symbolists, decadents and aesthetic, walking with a flower in his buttonhole and a stack in his hand. He lives near Pskov, in … Read more
To Sherlock Holmes, the owner of a small loan fund named Jabez Wilson, who has an unusual red hair color, applies for help. The affairs of Mr. Wilson did not go well and he had to fire his workers. Some time ago, he hired an assistant to Vincent Spalding, who agreed to work for half … Read more
I visited recently in the Temple of the Cloud Forest, where the ceremony of explaining the Sutra of the Flower of the Law took place, and met two amazing old men there, they were older than ordinary people. One was one hundred and ninety years old, the other one hundred and eighty. Many people crowded … Read more
Moll comes back to London, is sad for her husband, adores sweet memories, until she discovers that she is pregnant. Born in a boarding house “for single women”, the baby is already established in order to care for a peasant woman from Hartford – and inexpensive, which is not without pleasure notes the mother who … Read more