A typical business Yankee of the late nineteenth century, who knows how to do any thing in the world, gets a scrap on the skull during a skirmish in his factory, gets from the industrial state of Connecticut in the era of King Arthur – rather, the hero of many knightly novels than the real … Read more
Spain, 1519. Palace of the Duke of Rui Gomez de Silva in Zaragoza. Late evening. The old man is not at home. Dona Sol, his niece and bride, is waiting for her lover Ernani – today their destiny must be decided. Duenna, hearing a knock on the door, opens and sees instead of Ernani a … Read more
DN Mamin-Sibiryak Gold Rodion Potapych Zykov – “the oldest master” (mining master, who is in charge of mine work) “in all the Balchugov goldfields” of the Urals. He directs the prospecting works on the Fotyanovskaya placer, which gave the treasury “more than a hundred poods of gold.” This placer was discovered by Andron Kishkin, the … Read more
One day in August a person goes on a three-day vacation to replenish his collection of insects with rare species found in the sands. He gets on the train to station S, transits to the bus and, getting off at the last stop, goes on foot. He passes the village and goes by the sandy … Read more
A. Manzoni Engaged Don Abbondio, the priest of a small village located in that part of Lake Como, where it wraps south between two mountain ranges and is all riddled with protrusions and bays, returns home after a pleasant walk on November 7, 1628 at sunset. He is already ready to turn to the path … Read more
Sh. L. de Montesquieu Persian Letters The novel’s action covers 1711-1720. The epistolary form of the work and the extra spicy material from the life of Persian harems, a peculiar construction with exotic details, full of bright wit and ironic description, accurate characteristics enabled the author to interest the most diverse audience to court circles … Read more
Yu. N. Tynyanov Death of Vazir-Mukhtar On March 14, 1828, the inhabitants of the capital were informed of the conclusion of peace with Persia by a cannon shot from the Peter and Paul Fortress. A treatise on peace was brought from the main apartment of the Russian army in Tehran by collegiate adviser Griboyedov. At … Read more
The trench is shallow, dry and dusty – hastily dug out overnight in the thaw that has just thawed from winter frosts, but already well dried. In order not to protrude, Voloshin stood bent over, with his high growth, it was tedious. Changing the pose, he knocked a bundle of earth from the parapet, painfully … Read more
The main city of Sichuan Province, which summarizes all the places on the globe and any time in which a person exploits a person, is the place and time of the play. Prologue. For two thousand years the cry has not ceased: it can not go on like this! Nobody in this world is able … Read more
Gottfried Keller Green Henry The action takes place at the beginning of the last century in Switzerland. One fine day in the village of Glattfelden, which is located somewhere in the north of Switzerland, there is a handsome and beautiful stranger dressed in a green frock coat. This is Master Leia. Once upon a time … Read more