In this comedy, the main thing is not the plot, but the hero, the “boastful warrior”. In the old days in Greece there were no professional soldiers, there were militiamen. And then, when the war became a profession, there were dashing mercenaries who went to serve anyone, even to the edge of the world, mostly … Read more
EI Nosov Shumit arched fescue In the middle of the summer, haymaking began to boil over the Desna. Immediately on the shore, a clearing was cut out for a brigade station, low salaflanes were poured from the lozenges, each into their own family, and at a distance they tore the kazan under a common kulesh, … Read more
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn So Huck returns to the kind widow Douglas. The widow meets him with tears and calls the lost sheep – but this, of course, is not from evil. And again, life on the phone, even at the table, relies first to mutter something over the food. Although the … Read more
Tsarevich Kandarpaketu, the son of Tsar Chintamani, sees an unknown girl in a dream and falls passionately into her. Together with his friend Makaranda, he goes to her search. One night, being in the vicinity of the Vindhya mountains, he accidentally overhears the conversation of two birds. One of them, the lane, reproaches the other, … Read more
A. V. Vampilov Farewell in June Action 1 In the street, at the bus stop, in anticipation of transport is Tanya, a girl of 19 years, reading posters. Student of the last course Nikolai Kolesov, a young man of 24 years old, is persistently trying to meet her. Soon he explains that he promised to … Read more
JL Borges Fictional Histories The Secret Miracle On the night of March 14, 1936, in an apartment in Celetnaya Street in Prague, Jaromir HladÃk, the author of the unfinished tragedy “Enemies”, the work “The Justification of Eternity” and the study of the implicit Judaic sources, Jacob Boehme, sees in a long chess game. The game … Read more
William Shakespeare Othello Venice. At the house of Senator Brabantzio the Venetian nobleman Rodrigo, unrequitedly in love with the daughter of Senator Desdemona, reproaches his friend Iago for taking the rank of lieutenant from Othello, the noble Moor, the general in the Venetian service. Iago is justified: he himself hates the self-willed African because he, … Read more
TS Eliot Barren land The action takes place in England after the First World War. The basis of the poem is the myth of the search for the Holy Grail and the legend of the poor fisherman. Parts of the poem are fragmentary and do not form unity. The poem begins with an epigraph – … Read more
Maxim Gorky Konovalov Storyteller Maxim tells us about his meeting with a certain Konovalov, and the reason for the story was a newspaper article stating that in the prison cell, the philistine of the city of Murom, Aleksandr Ivanovich Konovalov, who was arrested for vagrancy, hanged himself, apparently, hanged himself. Maxim his story decided to … Read more
JF Cooper Pathfinder, or On the Shores of Ontario Nineteen-year-old Mable Dunchen, accompanied by his uncle – the old seaman Cap – and two Indians (Fowling Arrow and his wife, the June Dew) have been for many days making their way through the endless American jungle from New York to a small English fortress on … Read more