Northwest of France. Rouen. The May morning of 1819, Jeanne, a blond girl with blue agate eyes, the daughter of Baron Le Perthieux de Vaux, herself puts the suitcases and looks out the window again: the rain does not cease… And so you want to go! Jeanne has just returned to her parents’ house from … Read more
On the farm Yakimovschina, which is located three meters from the town of Vyselki, lived Stepanida and Petrok Bogatki. They had two children: the son of Fyodor (served in tank troops), and Fenya’s daughter (studied in a medical institution in Minsk). After the war began, and the front goes to the east, German soldiers appear … Read more
There was a small flower in the world. No one knew that he was on earth. He grew up alone in a vacant lot; cows and goats did not go there, and the children from the pioneer camp there never played. In the wasteland, the grass did not grow, but only the old gray stones … Read more
On one of the hottest days of 1853, two young people were lying on the shores of the Moscow River in the shade of a blooming linden tree. The twenty-three-year-old Andrei Petrovich Bersenev has just graduated as the third candidate of the Moscow University, and an academic career awaited him. Pavel Yakovlevich Shubin was a … Read more
Morning in the house of Jourdain. The teacher of music and the dance teacher discuss how they were lucky with Jourdain: “We found just the kind of person we need.” Mr. Jourdain, with his insanity on the nobility and on secular ways, is just a treasure for us, his knowledge is not great, he judges … Read more
The action takes place in Moscow. Several months have passed since Sergei Afanasievich Troitsky died. His wife, Olga, a biologist, still can not recover from the loss of her husband, who died at the age of forty-two from a heart attack. She still lives in the same apartment with his mother Alexandra Prokofievna, a woman … Read more
The action of Ch. P. Snow’s novel “Corridors of Power” takes place in Great Britain in 1955-1958. The protagonist of the novel is a young Conservative politician representing the left wing of his party, Roger Kuif. The narrative is conducted on behalf of his colleague, and later a friend of Lewis Eliot In the spring … Read more
By the end of the XVII century. After the death of Emperor Fyodor Alekseevich, a struggle for power begins in Russia. Rebellion streltsy, instigated by the princess Sophia and her lover, ambitious prince Vasily Golitsyn. There were two tsars in Moscow-the youngest Ivan Alekseevich and Pyotr Alekseyevich, and above them the ruler of Sophia. “Everything … Read more
Makar is the main character, a peasant. The author himself referred his work to “holy stories”. Written in the Yakut exile (the winter of 1883), the story was inspired by the real impressions of the young writer (he lived with peasant Zakhar Tsykunov, who became the prototype of Makar). But, calling in the original sketches … Read more
Umberto Eco Pendulum Foucault The plot of this novel by a well-known Italian writer, philologist and historian of literature falls on the beginning of the seventies of the 20th century, a time when youth riots were still raging in Italy. However, the “political choice” of the narrator, a student at the Milan University of Casobone, … Read more