Action I The coarse inhabitants of a Dublin house this evening were in a state more nervous and animated than usual: the master, Musya, displayed heart-rending passages on bagpipes; female prostitutes ruffled with the damaging fishery of former young men – Rio Rita and Princess Grace; one girl made a scandal because her client turned … Read more
At the beginning of the story is given a story about the choice of the bizarre name of the main character, Bashmachkin Akaky Akakievich, the title adviser. A fair number of young people with ranks above the rank of his rank laughed at him, scattered papers, pushed his elbows. And only when he was completely … Read more
When on earth the age of heroes began, the gods often went to mortal women, so that they would be born heroes. Another thing – the goddess: they only very rarely went to mortal men to give birth to their sons. So from the goddess Thetis was born the hero of the “Iliad” – Achilles; … Read more
At the end of November the thawing train of the Petersburg-Warsaw Railway approached St. Petersburg. In the car, as it usually happens, a conversation was started between fellow travelers. Two young men turned out to be opposite each other. The first of them was about twenty-seven, black-haired, curly, with small gray but fiery eyes. His … Read more
O. Henry Peaches Honeymoon in full swing. Little McGarry, a welterweight boxer who does not know himself in the ring, is blissful. He is ready to fulfill any desire of his young wife. And when she cooed: “Darling, I would eat a peach,” he gets up and follows the peaches. But the Italian at the … Read more
On an autumn rainy day, along a broken muddy road to a long hut, in one half of which there was a postal station, and in another a clean room where one could rest, eat and even spend the night, a tarantas with a half-raised top sailed up. There was a strong, serious man in … Read more
The out-of-court adviser Podkolesin, lying on the couch with a pipe and thinking that it would not hurt to still marry, calls on Stepan’s servant, who asks about whether the matchmaker did not go in, and about visiting a tailor, about the quality of the cloth worn and not asked the tailor why the gentleman … Read more
On the way to Valaam on the Ladoga Lake there are several travelers. One of them, dressed in a novice cassock and in the form of a “typical hero”, says that, with the “gift of God” to tame the horses, he, according to the parental promise, died all his life and could not perish in … Read more
M. A. Bulgakov Theater novel Sergei Leontievich Maksudov, an employee of the newspaper “Herald of the Shipping Company”, seeing in his dream his native city, snow, civil war, begins to write about this novel. Having finished, he reads it to his acquaintances who claim that he will not be able to publish this novel. Sending … Read more
The play takes place in the USSR in 1930. The inventor of Eccentrics is going to include the time machine he designed. He explains the importance of this invention to his friend Bicyclebikin: you can stop a second of happiness and enjoy a month, you can “twist the stretched long years of grief.” Bicyclebikin suggests … Read more
The heroes of the novel are mostly not named by their names. Among the listeners of the Traveler’s story are the Psychologist, A very young man, the Provincial Mayor, the Doctor and others. They are present at the return of the Traveler from the future, which appears in front of his guests not in the … Read more
Emil Zola Creativity Claude Lantier, an artist, hanged himself in his studio before the unfinished painting in November 1870. His wife, Christina, posing for this picture and excruciatingly jealous of her, lost her mind from grief. Claude lived in complete poverty. He left nothing but a few sketches: the last and the main picture, a … Read more
NIKOLAI VITALEVICH LYSENKO 1842-1912 The founder of the Ukrainian national composer school, Lysenko was the largest connoisseur of folk songs and a musical and public figure, choral conductor and pianist. His musical heritage includes operas, cantatas, romances, piano pieces and other instruments. The outstanding talent of the composer was most fully manifested in the field … Read more
The action takes place in the early 60’s. XX century. in Switzerland, in a private lunatic asylum “The Cherry Orchard”. The sanatorium, thanks to the efforts of its mistress, the hunchbacked Fraulein Matilda von Tsang, a doctor of medicine, and donations from various charitable societies, is expanding. New buildings are being built, where the most … Read more
Late in the evening a passenger train Moscow-Sevastopol stopped at one of the stations. He made a stop somewhere outside Podolsk and it was unplanned. The lady from the first class car asked the conductor why the train stopped. From him received an answer that they miss the late courier staff. The station was already … Read more
A diary? Well no! Rather, notes, notes, memories – more correctly, physiology. And now the hero is already on the train, rushing him from the Russian province to the Russian capital, the car is full of the same like him, the provincials, and the provincial complains that nowhere else in the province can hide, thinks … Read more
1945. The unusual family of Jordahs lives in the city of Port-Philippe. Nobody loves anyone in this family. Father, Axel Jordah, works in his own bakery and hates this work, and this country. His wife believes that he ruined her life and her dreams. Raised in strict rules in the monastic shelter, she sees the … Read more
E. M. Remarque Three comrades Germany after the First World War. Economic crisis. The ruined fates of people and their souls. As one of the heroes of the novel says, “we live in an era of despair.” Three school and then front-line comrades – Robert Lokamp, Gottfried Lenz, Otto Kester – work in a car … Read more
Two years later, Pantelei Jeremyich Chertopkhanov was hit with all sorts of disasters. The first of them was the most sensitive for him: Masha left him. Chertopkhanov was convinced that the fault of the Machine of Infidelity was a young neighbor, the retired Uhlan captain Yaff, but the reason for everything was the vagrant gypsy … Read more
AI Kuprin Kindergarten The daughter of the senior scribe of the orphaned court Burminova Sashenka fell ill. The doctor diagnosed: “apathy, anemia and rickety build” and prescribed a medicine – fresh air, Crimea, sea bathing and good nutrition. But with a father’s salary, there’s nothing to think about. However, Sasha does not want anything – … Read more
Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim Jim Dixon, the protagonist of the novel, works as a history teacher at an English provincial university. He teaches there for the first year and is not yet enrolled in the job, but is undergoing a probationary period. But from the very beginning he makes a bad impression on his colleagues. … Read more
Chapter 1: “Borya came in. It was a boy of about twelve, well-nourished, rosy-cheeked, the gray cap was crooked on his head, the black jacket flung open, in one hand he held the laundry basket and in the other he carried a rope bag with a large jar of green glass He moved slowly, cautiously, … Read more
The work is based on the legend of the famous Minnesinger of the 13th century. Heinrich von Oterdingingen. The external eventual canvas is only a necessary material shell for the depiction of the deep internal process of the poet’s becoming and Henry’s comprehension of the life ideal, portrayed allegorically by Novalis in the guise of … Read more
KG Paustovsky Basket with fir cones Composer Edward Grieg spent the autumn in the woods near Bergen. All the forests are good with their mushroom air and leaves rustling. But mountain forests near the sea are especially good. They can hear the surf. From the sea constantly causes fog, and from the abundance of moisture … Read more
Henrik Ibsen Per Gynt The action of the poem covers the time from the beginning to the 60s. XIX century. and occurs in Norway (in the Gudbrann valley and surrounding mountains), on the Moroccan coast of the Mediterranean, in the Sahara Desert, in a crazy house in Cairo, at sea and again in Norway, in … Read more
M. Tikamatsu Suicide of lovers on the island of Heavenly Networks In the “villages of love,” this paradise of love for the simpletons, the sea of passion can not be scooped to the bottom. In the merry quarter of Sonezaki is always full of cheerful guests, they bawl songs, curse, imitate their favorite actors, dance … Read more
Just want to apologize, but for all the fairy tales until the materials we could not find: ( Near the pile of rubble near the road sits a black worker like a beetle with a medal on his chest. He tells the passerby that the medal was for the construction of the Simplon tunnel, during … Read more
In one of the cities of the Rostov district there is a court. Boyarin Sturgeon, the governor of the Khvalyn sea Som and the ship muzhiks – Sudak and Pike-trepetuha look at the petition on Yersha, which was made up by peasants from the Rostov district, the fish Bream and Chub. They accuse Ersh that … Read more
In the novel there is a dispute that there is observance of historical traditions. Justifying the commemorating wide celebrations of the coronation, the general observes: “A people without historical traditions turns into a crowd of wannak who do not remember their kinship.” Roman Trifonovich Khomiakov argues that a great tradition and great honor is caring … Read more
Oscar Wilde Starry Boy A poor woodcutter brought a baby with an amber necklace around his neck wrapped in a cloak with golden stars – he found it in the winter forest at the place where the star fell (other lumberjacks refused to carry the parasite). My wife at first was against an extra mouth, … Read more
It’s not the first month that the landowner Pyotr Konstantinovich Muromsky, having entrusted the village economy to the manager, lives with his daughter Lidochka and her elderly aunt Anna Antonova Atueva in Moscow. He has extensive land in the Yaroslavl province and as many as 1,500 serfs – a serious state. Of course, the twenty-year-old … Read more
The height of the First World War. Germany already fights against France, Russia, England and America, Paul Boyer, on whose behalf the narrative is conducted, represents his fellow soldiers. Schoolchildren, peasants, fishermen, artisans of different ages gathered here. Rota lost almost half of the composition and nine kilometers from the front rest after meeting with … Read more
So, the story begins: to the court of the legendary King Arthur, where the brave and noble knights are assembled, is a girl on a mule. The beauty goes “without any bridle” and weeps bitterly. Noble ladies and knights send seneschal Kay to find out what’s wrong. Soon Kay comes back and reports: the girl … Read more
The second half of the 60’s. XIX century. Stockholm, May. The young man, who was disgusted by the service in the College of official salaries, is burning with the desire to benefit the society. He meets with Struve, a venerable journalist from the opposition “Little Red Riding Hood”, and asks for his advice and help: … Read more
Five days a person goes to the depths of the south-eastern steppe of the Soviet Union. On the way, he presents himself as a locomotive engineer, a geologist-spy, or “another organized professional being, just to occupy his head with an uninterrupted thought and distract the longing from the heart” and reflects on the reorganization of … Read more
The myth tells of the Athenian architect, sculptor, artist and inventor Daedalus and his son Icarus, who forever remained an example for many dreamers. According to legend, Daedalus built the famous Labyrinth on the island of Crete for the Minotaur. He also gave Ariadne, daughter of the Cretan king, a ball of thread, with which … Read more
King of England Uther Pendragon falls in love with Igraine, the wife of the Duke of Cornwall, with whom he is at war. The famous sorcerer and soothsayer Merlin promises to help the king to win Igreina, provided that the child gives it to him. Duke dies in battle, and the barons, wishing to put … Read more
Charles Dickens The life of David Copperfield, told by himself David Copperfield was born half-orphaned – six months after the death of his father. It so happened that when he was born, his father’s aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood, was present-her marriage was so unfortunate that she became a muzhinenavistnitsey, returned to the girl’s name and … Read more
Romain Rolland Jean-Christophe In a small German town on the banks of the Rhine, a child is born to the Kraft family of musicians. The first, still unclear perception of the surrounding world, the warmth of the mother’s hands, the tender sound of the voice, the sensation of light, darkness, thousands of different sounds… The … Read more
G. Sienkiewicz Fire and sword in 1647. Ukrainian lands that are part of the Commonwealth. Jan Skshetusky – a young handsome officer, a knight without fear and reproach, in the service of Prince Jeremiah Vishnevetsky, the owner of the vast lands on the Left Bank of the Dnieper, rescues the swarthy narrow-eyed giant from the … Read more
Charles Nodier Jean Sbogar 1807 In Trieste lives a thirty-two-year-old widow, Mrs. Alberti, with her young sister Antonia, a girl who is fragile, sad and thoughtful. In this troubled time, when “the laws have not yet entered into force,” and justice is often idle, a gang of robbers calling themselves “brothers of the common good” … Read more
The story of the girl begins with a description of the ill-fated fate of her mother, who became a victim of deception. She was seduced and thrown by her beloved man, she had a girl, and now Fantina wanders with her child in the arms around the world in search of food and work. But … Read more
The events of the novel begin with the arrival of Prince Myshkin in St. Petersburg. This man is 26 years old, orphaned early. He is the last representative of the noble family. In view of the early illness of the nervous system, the prince was placed in a sanatorium, located in Switzerland, from where he … Read more
AI Kuprin Yama Anna Markovna’s Institution is not one of the most elegant “like Treppel’s institution, but not of low-grade ones.” There were only two such ones in Yama (the former Yamskaya Sloboda), the rest – rubles and fifty rubles, for soldiers, thieves, gold coins. Late May evening, Anna Markovna in the hall for guests … Read more
Pierre Cornel Nicomedes To the court of King Bithynia Prussia two of his sons arrive. Nycomed, the son of the first marriage, left the army, at the head of which he won numerous victories, laying at the feet of his father not one kingdom; his deceit was enticed into the capital by his stepmother, Arsinoe. … Read more
Sashka, the hero of Andreev’s “Christmas story,” possessed an unruly and courageous soul, could not calmly take to evil and took revenge on life. For this purpose, he beat his comrades, rudely bribed his superiors, tore up the textbooks, and lied to the teachers and mothers all day… Before Christmas Sasha was kicked out of … Read more
Date of birth of Alexander Blok, November 28, 1921. Block, left a trace of himself, as a poet and playwright, as a participant and the founder of symbolism. His literary heritage is the most vivid phenomenon of Russian literature, which contributed to the enormous influence on the literature of the whole world. Alexander’s parents did … Read more
Once, two old friends met at the station in the crowd of passengers of the Nikolayevskaya railway. The fat passenger could see that he had just had a delicious dinner at the restaurant, and his lips were still glossy with oil. He also smelled of wine and the fresh fragrance of expensive spirits. The thin … Read more
Niels Ebbesen, the leader of the Danish peasants who rebelled against the Dutch rule, died in battle at Skanderborg on November 2, 1340. However, another event that occurred earlier in the spring of the same year glorified him. Conducted in the Danish folk ballad “Nils Ebbesen”, it later became the basis for several classic works … Read more
Notes on the screen with lotus flowers A young official named Ying went by water to the place of service. The boatman coveted their goods, threw In into the river, interrupted the servants, and the widow, Mrs. Wang, planned to betray her son. The young lady, lulled by the vigilance of the robber, in a … Read more