For many hours, Sherlock Holme sat hunched over a glass vial in which something unusually smelly was being cooked. His head was lowered to his chest, and he seemed to me like a strange tovtyuyu bird with dull gray feathers and a black tuft. “So, Watson,” he said suddenly, “are not you going to invest … Read more
William Lee was born and raised in a fashionable quiet suburb of one of the big cities of the Midwest. In childhood and adolescence, he did not stand out among peers, except that he read them much more. At the end of Harvard, William staggered for a year on pre-war Europe, the benefit of a … Read more
L. N. Tolstoy Hadji Murad On a cold November evening in 1851, Hadji Murad, the famous naib of Imam Shamil, drives into the inhospitable Chechen aul Mahket. A Chechen Sado receives a guest in his sakle, despite Shamil’s recent order to detain or kill the rebellious naiba. On the same night, three soldiers with non-commissioned … Read more
In the first lines of the novel Obruchev describes the appearance at the meeting of the Imperial Geographical Society of an unnamed “naval officer who performed a bold swim in the whaleboat through the Arctic Sea from the Novosibirsk Islands to the Bennett Island, to which Baron Tallle landed, who did not return from there,” … Read more
MA Sholokhov Birthmark On the table are cartridges, lamb bone, a field map, a brief, a bridle, a crust of bread. At the table sits Nikolka Koshevoy, squadron commander, he fills out the questionnaire. “A rusty sheet says sparingly: Nikolai Koshevoi, squadron commander, a surveyor, a member of the RCYU, age 18 years.” He looked … Read more
The action of the comedy takes place in a fantastic country for the English of Shakespeare’s time – Illyria. The Duke of Illyria Orsino is in love with the young Countess Olivia, but she is in mourning after the death of her brother and even does not accept the emissaries of the duke. The indifference … Read more
The story consists of 24 chapters, each of which, in fact, is a small independent finished story. From the first chapter, the reader will learn about the preparations for an interstellar journey to collect rare alien animals, Professor Seleznev and his daughter Alisa, whom he promised to take with him. Participation in the expedition of … Read more
This poem by Heinrich Heine tells of a bear named Atta Troll. The action begins in 1841 in the small resort town of Cotere in the Pyrenees, where the lyrical hero rested with his wife Matilda, whom he affectionately calls Juliet. Their balcony went out just to the city square, and they could watch every … Read more
The action takes place in the modern author of the play of Germany. The plot unfolds for two years. Drama is preceded by the epigraph of Hippocrates, which in the Russian translation reads: “What medicines do not heal, heals iron, which does not heal iron, heals fire.” In the ancestral castle of the barons von … Read more
A. Blok’s poem “Nightingale Garden” is a typically romantic work, therefore its main images are conditional, do not have the features of a specific time and space. Using his favorite method of antithesis, the poet contrasts in the poem two themes, two opposing notions about the meaning of life: the paradise existence in the nightingale … Read more