The first, as usual, the news of the return Lavretzky brought in the house of the Kalitins Gedeonovsky. Mary D., widow of the former provincial prosecutor, in his fifty years Save to outline a certain pleasure, delight in it, and her house of the nicest in the city… On the other hand, Martha Timofeevna Pestova, … Read more
A young trader Wang Wen-yun, frightened of the misfortune predicted to him, bids farewell to his father, his wife and leaves for a hundred days to trade peddling. Wang’s business is going well. On the way to Sizhou, he stops at the inn, where he dreams that he is killed by a robber. Indeed, the … Read more
Christmas Eve. The woodcutter’s children, Tiltil and Mytil, sleep in their beds. Suddenly they wake up. Attracted by the sound of music, the children run to the window and look at the Christmas celebration in a rich house opposite. There is a knock at the door. There is an old woman in a green dress … Read more
Under this name, there are three sagas, known from the “Book of the Cow Burrow” and “The Yellow Book of Lecan” (XIV century). In the old days, Ireland was ruled by a king from the tribe of the Tribes of the Goddess named Eohide Ollothar (Eohide “Father of All”). He was also called Dagda, for … Read more
The story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who committed a series of brutal murders to achieve the cherished dream – the creation of love spirits. “In the eighteenth century, a man lived in France, who belonged to the most brilliant and most disgusting figures of this era, so rich in genius and disgusting figures, his name was … Read more
John Arbuthnot The story of John Bull, Lord Stratte, a wealthy aristocrat whose family has long owned enormous wealth, a parish priest and cunning attorney are persuaded to bequeath his entire estate to a cousin, Philip Baboon. To the cruel disappointment of another cousin, Esquire South, the title and estate after the death of Lord … Read more
In the pet store, Vasya saw two small turtles, but the mother refused to buy them, because they already had an old turtle Masha, and three turtles in the house – that’s too much. When the mother fell asleep, Vasya took Masha to the market. There he found a buyer ready to buy an old … Read more
In the Tsitsarskaya steppe, near Kiev, stood a hero’s outpost. Ilya Muromets was there ataman, Dobrynya Nikitich – under the ataman, Alyosha Popovich – by the captain. With them were the brave warriors: boyar son Grishka, Vasily Dolgopoly and others. Passing them, no one could go to Kiev. Even the beast and the bird did … Read more
The action takes place in the 1880s. in the small Scottish town of Levenford. In the house of quaint architecture, the project of which James Brodie himself developed, live: the elder mother of the head of the family, whose only entertainment is food, his wife Margaret, the exhausted woman, the daughter of Nancy (an excellent … Read more
The novel takes place in Paris and tells about the life of several heroes for twenty years. 1 Night. A young woman, Gervaise, is waiting for her lodging partner in her wretched room. She is slim, “with delicate features, already battered by the harsh life.” Gervaise limps on one leg. Two sons sleep in a … Read more