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 artistic method of the story is the antithesis – the author contrasts the images of the hero and heroine, life and … Read more
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 is ready to get down to business, especially since the duke who gives the location of the boy gives five thousand … Read more
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 telegraph-schizophrenic style, as they write on the planet Tralfamador, from where the flying saucers appear.” The protagonist of the book, Billy … Read more
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 four days. He claimed that he had spent all this time on the island, where incredible things were happening. His stories … Read more
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. He lived in Kazan with his wife until Mikhail Fyodorovich reigned. And he had a twelve-year-old son, Sawa. Thomas went to … Read more
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 for discussion: why Russia does not have good actresses. That the actresses are not good, everyone agrees, but everyone explains it … Read more
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, two women, mother and daughter. They began the morning with the fitting and discussion of the old wedding dress, and ended … Read more
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 his situation is not disastrous, but catastrophic. Countless lenders are taking them by the throat. He can not escape dismissal from … Read more
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 a childhood friend Tanya Pesotskaya, who lives with her father, Yegor Semyonitch, on the estate Borisovka. April. Description of a huge … Read more
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. He had just got out of the car, carrying a lot of cartons in his hands, a thin woman was looking … Read more