Officer Zhilin served in the Caucasus. Once he receives a letter from his mother and decides to go away to rest in his native land. On the way, he meets an officer and two of them are caught by Tatars. The guilt of this situation was Kostylin, since he had to cover up Zilin, but, … Read more
The hero of the narrative, a twenty-eight-year-old Maltese Dane of Malta, Laurides Brigg, the last representative of the noble family, finds herself in Paris all alone and on the verge of poverty. His observations now focus on how the outcasts live in Paris: doss-houses, the chloroform stench in a hospital for the poor, the rumbling … Read more
A “Diavona” spaceship from the planet of Ramery is sent to Earth. As a part of the crew, the captain of the ship is a general, navigator, doctor, pilot and servant of General Ilsor. On the planet of Rameria live arzacs – talented, but trusting, like children, people, and menites, who have a supreme ruler. … Read more
VO Bogomolov Ivan The young senior lieutenant Galtsev, the interim commander of the battalion, was awakened in the middle of the night. A boy of about twelve was detained near the shore, all wet and shivering from the cold. Galtsev’s strict questions are answered only by the fact that his name is Bondarev, and demands … Read more
T. Junichiro Fine Snow The action takes place in the thirties and ends in the spring of 1941. The sisters of Makiok belong to an ancient family. At one time, their name was known to all residents of Osaka, but in the twenties the financial situation of Makiyoka’s father was shaken, and the family gradually … Read more
The plot breaks up into separate stories, and each of them has several options. Thus, for example, the narrator’s image splits into two different images, Enderlin and Gantenbein, which embody possible versions of his existence for the narrator. The author does not allow to “examine” the fate of his characters to their natural end. It … Read more
Theophile Gautier Captain Fracassus XVII century, the time of the reign of Louis XIII. In Gascony, in a dilapidated castle, Baron de Sigonyak drags on a miserable existence, the last descendant of a once noble and powerful race, a young man of about twenty-five, “who would easily be known as handsome if he did not … Read more
AA Bestuzhev Roman and Olga (The flow of the story is between 1396 and 1398. All the historical events and persons mentioned in it are presented with unrelenting accuracy. The readers can take the second chapter of Volume 5 of the History of the Russian State “Karamzin.” – From the author’s notes.) “It will not … Read more
America’s relatively short-term future, as she saw the author in the early fifties, when this novel-dystopia was written. Thirty-year-old Guy Montag is a firefighter. However, in these modern times fire brigades do not fight with fire. Quite the contrary. Their task is to find books and fire them, as well as the homes of those … Read more
The Old Woodcutter cuts wood in the woods and always remembers grief and wickedness. His niece Nastya brings him dinner. The woodcutter rebukes the girl that she is waiting for her beloved, soldier Ivan Tarabanov, who is naked as a falcon, but rejects the rich miller. The woodcutter continues to cut down the forest, remembering … Read more
There is not a single nation that does not have its own idea of the universe, the gods that rule life, and also their struggle for power and influence. Myths of Ancient Greece, a brief summary of which we will consider in this article, are also special because they pay much attention to a person. … Read more
The central heroes of the work are old man Nikitich and a young guy. The action takes place in the taiga. The old man Nikitich, who, from “small years dragged along the taiga”, sometimes lives in huts, which are cut down in the taiga. So it was this time. Uninhabited, but already warmed by the … Read more
In 1917, Constance Reid, a twenty-two-year-old girl, the daughter of the famous Royal Academy artist Sir Malkom Reid, is married to Baron Clifford Chatterley. Six months after the wedding, Clifford, all this time participating in the war in Flanders,. Returns back to England with severe wounds, as a result of which his lower body remains … Read more
A fairy tale was first published in 1954. In 2 years the work was awarded the prestigious award – the German prize of youth literature. “Myo, my Mio” – the first work of the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, created in the genre of epic fantasy. The first screen version of the story took place in … Read more
William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew Mednyk Christopher Sly falls asleep drunken sleep at the threshold of the inn. The lord rejoins with the huntsmen and servants and, finding the sleeper, decides to play a joke with him. His servants include Sli in a luxurious bed, washed in fragrant water, dress in an expensive … Read more
A. P. Chekhov The Black Monk Andrei Vasilievich Kovrin, Master, falls ill with a breakdown of nerves. On the advice of a friend, the doctor decides to go to the village. This decision coincides with the invitation to visit from a childhood friend Tanya Pesotskaya, who lives with her father, Yegor Semyonitch, on the estate … Read more
Jean Zhirod Trojan War will not be The plot is a free interpretation of the ancient Greek myth. The Trojan prince Paris had already stolen Helen Spartan, but the war had not yet begun. Still alive King Priam and Hector, did not become Andromache’s slaves and the prophesying Cassandra, young Polixena did not die under … Read more
S. Richardson Pamela, or Rewarded Virtue Pamela, barely fifteen children, the daughter of a poor but virtuous married couple Andrews, informs in a letter to her parents that the noble lady, in whose service she spent the last few years of her life, died from a serious illness. Her nobility and kind attitude towards Pamela … Read more
The seventeen-year-old teenager Holden Caulfield promises to tell the reader the crazy story that happened to him last Christmas. He does not intend to disclose his biography in detail and especially talk about parents who do not like to take out “dirty underwear”. Holden’s native brother – DB lives in Hollywood, next to the sanatorium … Read more
Descendants of the ancient aristocratic family William Legrand pursue a setback, he loses all his wealth and falls into poverty. To avoid ridicule and humiliation, Legrand leaves New Orleans, the city of his ancestors, and settles on a desert island near the Atlantic coast. In the thickets of the myrtle grove, Legran constructs a hut … Read more
Sinbad the Sailor was a brave and courageous traveler. During the second voyage Sinbad’s ship came to a beautiful island. On the ship, besides Sinbad, there were merchants. Everyone went out for a walk on the island. Sinbad sat down to rest and grab a bite. Unbeknownst, he fell asleep. When he woke up, he … Read more
In the prologue Machiavelli says that everyone considers him dead, but his soul flew across the Alps and he arrived in Britain to his friends. He considers religion a toy and asserts that there is no sin, but there is only stupidity, that power is affirmed only by force, and the law, like the Dragon, … Read more
AF Pisemsky Bitter fate In anticipation of the return from earnings from St. Petersburg quitrent Ananias Yakovlev, “a man from the soul of the proud, own”, hardworking and economic, in a festively cleaned hut, anxiously glancing at the marked road, talking two old women – Spiridonievna and Matryona, the mother of Lizaveta, Anania’s wife, in … Read more
Jean Cocteau Orpheus The action takes place in the living room of the country villa Orpheus and Eurydice, reminiscent of the illusionist’s salon; despite the April sky and bright lighting, it becomes obvious to the audience that the room is in the power of mysterious charms, so that even the usual objects in it look … Read more
Ten years before the war, the narrator rested on the Riviera, in a small boarding house. In a nearby hotel, a major scandal broke out. A young Frenchman arrived by day train, who immediately attracted everyone’s attention with his beauty and courtesy. He very quickly met all of them and, two hours after his arrival, … Read more
IB Singer Shosa Red-haired blue-eyed Arele – Aaron Gradinger, the son of a well-educated rabbi, lives with his family in Krohmalnaya Street, in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw. He has known three languages since childhood and is educated in the Talmud. The eight-year-old boy is friends with his coeval, daughter of neighbor Basie Shosha. She … Read more
Corporal Petrov, nicknamed Fidel – an illiterate man with a broken psyche, he drank with catastrophic speed. He severely wounded his comrade in the service of Alikhanov and does not feel the slightest remorse. In his prayer addressed to God, the hopelessness of the situation in which the hero fell and the cruelty of his … Read more
Edward Albee What happened in the zoo The action takes place in the central park in New York on a summer Sunday We see two garden benches facing each other, behind them bushes, trees. Peter is sitting on the right bench, he is reading a book. Peter is about forty years old, very ordinary, wearing … Read more
The author (narration is conducted on his behalf) gets to know the woman Lera in the summer of 1963. The old woman lives in an abandoned village with Anisya Polikarpovna – Anisha. Both women went through the Gulag before settling down together. Anisya is prone to short drinking bouts. She treats new people with suspicion. … Read more
All gathered this terrible body – the thirteenth, cancerous. Persecuted and persecuted, silent and vigorous, hard workers and money-grubbers – they collected and depersonalized everyone, all of them are now only seriously ill, torn from the habitual situation, rejected and rejected all the familiar and native. They do not have anybody else’s house, no life … Read more
Fabrizio, the youngest son of the Marquis of Valserra del Dongo, spends his childhood in the family castle of Griante built in the 15th century over the beautiful Lake Como. He has two sisters and an older brother, in everything surprisingly similar to his father. The marquis is rich, but stingy, his wife and daughters … Read more
KATERINA ISMAILOVA Opera in four acts (nine scenes) Libretto by N. Leskov A. Preiss and D. Shostakovich Characters: Boris Timofeevich Izmaylov, merchant Zinovy Borisovich Izmailov, his Son, merchant Katerina Lvovna Izmailova, wife Zinoviy Borisovich Sergey, employee The crooked man Aksinya Worker with a mill The clerk 1st employee 2 nd employee 3rd employee Coachman Janitor … Read more
The plot of this tale by KG Paustovsky is uncomplicated. Pyotr Terentyev leaves the village for war. His young son Stepa gave the father of the old rhinoceros beetle, which he caught in the garden. Planted in a box of matches, the rhinoceros beetle went with the soldier to the front. Pyotr Terentyev fought, was … Read more
On the Kyogin Street, there were women – very young and older – and for knitting they spent time before the fishermen returned. At Donna Pasqua and Donna Libera in the sea husbands left, at Luchetta and Orsetta – suitors. The boatman of Toffolo passed by, and he wanted to chat with the beauties; First … Read more
Altsest did not cease to amaze his people with his temper, convictions and actions, and now even his old friend Philint refused to consider his friend – for the fact that he talked too warmly with a man whose name could only then be remembered with great difficulty. From the point of view of Alzest, … Read more
Norman Mailer Naked and dead World War II. Pacific theater of military operations. The history of the landing and capture by the Americans of the fictional island of Anapopey, where the Japanese concentrated, develops as it were on several levels. This is a chronicle of military operations, a detailed reconstruction of the atmosphere of the … Read more
Petersburg. Rodion Raskolnikov goes with a mortgage to the interest-bearing Alena Ivanovna, with whom the gray sister Lizaveta lives. A former student plans to kill the old woman, calculating all the details. Having received money for a mortgage, Raskolnikov meets a drunk official Marmeladov, who talks about his family – his wife, her three children … Read more
I. Turgenev Bachelor Actors (shortened list). Mikhailo Ivanovich Moshkin, 50 years old. lively, busy, good-natured. Pyotr Ilyich Vilitsky, 23 years old. indecisive, weak, self-interested man. Rodion Karlovich von Funk, 29 years old. Cold, dry creature. Philip Yegorovich Shpundik, landowner of 45 years. with claims of education. Marya Vasilievna Belova, an orphan who lives near Moshkin, … Read more
Thought to start the diary came to Chelkatourine on March 20. The doctor admitted finally that he had to live for two weeks. Soon the rivers will burst. Together with the last snow they will take away his life. Who can tell his gloomy thoughts at the last hour? Only the old and the near … Read more
AP Platonov Chevengur After four years in the fifth hunger drove people to the city or to the woods – there was a crop failure. Zakhar Pavlovich remained alone in the village. During the long life of his hands, not a single product, from a frying pan to an alarm clock, was missing, but Zakhar … Read more
The site of the novel is the homeland of the author, the forests of the southern province of Verand, to be more exact, the Brendabol village. People living in the twelve courtyards of Brendbol are dependent on a new neighbor – the landowner Cleven, who came from Germany: he serves at the court of the … Read more
Wise Answers The soldier comes home from service, after serving twenty-five years. Everyone asked him about the tsar, but he did not even see him in person. The soldier goes to the palace to see the king, who is testing the soldier and making various riddles. The soldier so reasonably answers that the king remains … Read more
VG Korolenko The Paradox Jan Krishtof Zaluski is the main character. A cripple who has no hands from birth; he has a big head, a pale face “with moving sharp features and large, penetrating running eyes.” “The body was very small, the shoulders narrow, the breasts and abdomen were not visible from under a broad … Read more
Wilkie Collins Woman in white The action takes place in England in 1850. The young London artist Walter Hartright, on the recommendation of his friend, the Italian professor Pesca, receives the place of a drawing teacher in Limmeridge in Cumberland, on the estate of Frederick Fairley, Esq. Before leaving, Walter comes to say goodbye to … Read more
The biggest house on the Arbat is between Nikolsky and the Money Lanes. In it there live four former classmates. Three of them: Sasha Pankratov, the secretary of the Komsomol cell of the school, the son of the lifter Maxim Kostin and Nina Ivanova – were a cohesive group of activists in the school. They … Read more
The story of usurer Gobsek, the solicitor Dervil tells in the cabin of the viscountess de Grandlieu – one of the most distinguished and wealthy ladies in the aristocratic Saint-Germain suburb. Once in the winter of 1829-30, two guests sat by her: the young handsome Count Ernest de Resto and Derville, who was accepted simply … Read more
V. S. Makanin Klyucharev and Alimushkin “A man suddenly noticed that the more luck he has in his life, the less luck he has for some other person,” he remarked casually, and even unexpectedly, “It did not please the man.” But it turned out that way or almost so. .. “ A typical researcher, Klyucharev, … Read more
On the Law given by Moses, and on the Grace and Truth revealed by Jesus Christ, and how the Law passed, and Grace and Truth filled the whole earth, and faith spread throughout all nations up to our Russian people; and praise to our great prince Vladimir, to whom we were baptized; and prayer to … Read more
In 1927 A. Platonov’s story “The Sandy Teacher” was written. The prototype of the main character was the bride of the writer M. Kashintsev, who, like Maria Naryshkina from the work, was engaged in the elimination of illiteracy in a remote village near Voronezh. In the story, Platonov refers to the theme of the struggle … Read more
From England to Russia A hero, a young man, talks about his travels through foreign lands. We do not know his name or age. We only know that England was the extreme limit of his journey, where he told himself that it was time to return to the fatherland, and sat in London on a … Read more