Bunin’s story “Clean Monday” was written in 1944 and entered the collection of the author devoted to the theme of love “Dark alleys”. The work belongs to the literary direction of neo-realism. The leading
To Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Hackstable, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, seeks help, asking him to find the missing son of the Duke of Holderness. The great detective is very busy, but he
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse number five, or the Children’s Crusade “Almost all this happened in fact.” This phrase begins a novel, which, as it appears from the author’s warning, “is partly written in a slightly
On February 1, 1887, the ship “Lady Vane” crashed. One of his passengers, Charles Edward Prendic, who was all believed dead, was picked up in the sea on the boat after eleven months and
During the Time of Troubles, merchant Thomas Grudtsyn-Usov lived in Veliky Ustyug. Having suffered many troubles from the invasion of the Poles, he moved to Kazan – the Poles did not reach there yet.
Three people are talking about the theater: the “Slav”, cropped in a circle, “European”, “not at all shorn,” and a young man standing outside the parties, cropped by a comb, which offers a topic
KF Hebbel Maria Magdalina The play takes place in a small German town in the first half of the last century. In the house of the joiner Anton, known for his diligence and thrift,
Tarelkin did not get a penny from his chief Varavin – not only for the Muromsky case, but also for many subsequent cases. However, he continued to live on a broad foot. And now
Andrei Vasilievich Kovrin, Master, falls ill with a breakdown of nerves. On the advice of a friend, the doctor decides to go to the village. This decision coincides with the invitation to visit from
Two school companions met at the station of the Nikolayevskaya Railway: one fat, one thin. Tolstoy gave the impression of a man who succeeded in life, Slim, on the contrary, looked much more modest.