“Tamango” by Prosper Merimee is a story not only about how clever, cruel and heartless the whites bought and secretly transported slaves, but also about how intimidated, disenfranchised, unarmed Negroes managed to capture the ship of slavers, not knowing, however, that with to do next. Receiving huge profits from the sale of “ebony”, White took … Read more
In the middle of summer, the hayfields began to boil over the Desna. Immediately on the shore we mowed out a clearing for the brigade camp, weaved from the lozenge low show booths, each to his family, at a distance, tore the kazan into the general kulesh, and so many hayfields arose temporarily. There was … Read more
JRR Tolkien Hobbit, or There and Back The hobbits are cheerful, but at the same time a solid little fellow. They are just like people, only half the size of us, and their legs are overgrown with hair, and they live not in houses, but in “burrows” – comfortable dwellings dug up in the earth. … Read more
Mathematician Kharlampi Diogenovich differed noticeably from his slovenly colleagues. With his appearance in the class, strict discipline was established. The lessons were so quiet that the principal could not believe that the students were in their places, and not at the stadium. Silence reigned as soon as the teacher entered the class, and lasted until … Read more
Charles Dickens Posthumous notes of the Pickwick Club May 12, 1827, at a meeting of the Pickwick Club, dedicated to the message of Samuel Pickwick, Esq., Entitled “Reflections on the origins of the Hamsted ponds with the addition of some observations on the theory of stickleback”, a new department was established under the name Correspondent … Read more
Chang slumbers, recalls how six years ago in China he met his current master, the captain. During this time, their fate changed abruptly: they no longer swim, live in the attic, in a large and cold room with low ceilings. The captain sleeps on the crushed bed, but Chang remembers what bed his master had … Read more
Henri Barbusse (born 17 May 1873 – August 30, 1935, Moscow) is a French writer, journalist and public figure in the international communist movement. Foreign Honorary Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1933). Member of the French Communist Party since 1923. Fame for Henri Barbusse came thanks to the anti-war novel “Fire” (Le Feu, … Read more
In the tavern “The coachman and horses”, owned by Mrs. Hall and her henpecked husband, in early February, there appears a mysterious stranger wrapped from head to foot. To get a guest on a winter day is not easy, but a visitor generously pays. His behavior seems more strange, more and more alarming to others. … Read more
The book is written in the first person. Exupery dedicated it to one of his fellow pilots – Henri Guillaume. A person reveals himself in the fight against obstacles. The pilot is like a peasant who cultivates the earth and thereby extorts from nature some of its secrets. The pilot’s work is also fruitful. The … Read more
Basil the Coriot, being the son of an impoverished nobleman, asks his father to let him go to the service so that he can help the family by sending part of his salary to his parents. The young man begins his career in St. Petersburg, settling down as a simple sailor. For hard work, diligence … Read more