AA Milne Two Quiet life in a country estate, “old good England”. Reginald Wellard is happy – he is married to a beautiful woman, so beautiful that outsiders, after seeing her, cry out with delight. He is forty years old, she is twenty-five; he adores her, and she seems to him too (he is not … Read more
“Valley of Terror” – Detective story of Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1915. First Summary. In the first part of Sherlock. The basis is the stories “Dancing Men”, “The Valley of Horror” (an episode with detailed information about the content of the new series is missing, however. Sherlock Holmes receives an encrypted letter from a … Read more
Isaac Asimov Themselves Gods Earth. The second half of the XXI century. Quite an ordinary mediocre radiochemist Frederic Hallam accidentally discovers that in a dusty flask with a label “Wolfram” suddenly turned out to be some other substance. Spectrometric analysis shows that this is an isotope of plutonium, which theoretically can not exist, in addition … Read more
“Matrenin yard” Solzhenitsyn – a story about the tragic fate of an open, not similar to his fellow villagers Matryona. Published for the first time in the journal “New World” in 1963. The story is from the first person. The protagonist becomes Matryona’s lodger and talks about her amazing fate. The first title of the … Read more
The text of the first adventure novel, known in the world literature, was only fragmented: fragments of the 15th, 16th and, presumably, the 14th chapter. There is no beginning, there is no end, and everything, apparently, was 20 chapters… The protagonist is the unbalanced youth Enkolpiy, who is well-versed in the rhetoric, obviously smart, but, … Read more
LN Andreev Petka at the dacha Ten-year-old boy Petka was sent to the teachings of barber Osip Abramovich. In a cheap hairdresser he brings water, the master and apprentices constantly shout at him and swear at him. His friend Nikolka is 13 years old, Nikolka knows a lot of bad words and often tells Petka … Read more
Yaroslav Ivashkevich (Polish: Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, also known under the pseudonym Eleuter, February 20, 1894 – March 2, 1980) is a Polish writer, poet, playwright, translator, laureate of the International Lenin Prize “For Strengthening Peace Among Nations” (1970). Yaroslav Ivashkevich was born in the village of Kalnik near Kiev, in the Russian Empire. He studied at … Read more
IE Babel Odessa stories The King Barely ended the wedding and began to prepare for a wedding dinner, as a Moldovan raider Bene Creek nicknamed King comes an unfamiliar young man and reports that a new bailiff has arrived and Benya is preparing a round-up. The king replies that he knows about the bailiff, and … Read more
The action takes place in Mexico in the late XVIII – early XIX century. The novel opens with a description of the holiday in honor of the day of St. John in the small Mexican town of San Ildefonso. Here all the layers of society are having fun. Among the aristocrats stands Catalina de Cruces, … Read more
Germain Malorty, nicknamed Mushette, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the Campanian brewer, once entering the dining room with a full bucket of fresh milk, felt unwell; parents immediately guessed that she was pregnant. The obstinate girl does not want to say who the father of the future child is, but her father realized that they can … Read more