FG Lorca Bloody wedding Spain, early XX century. Mountain village. The play begins in the house of the Bridegroom. Mother, learning that he is going to the vineyard and wants to take a knife, breaks into curses to the one who invented the knives, and the guns and pistols are all that can kill a … Read more
Turning to his children and to all who will ever read his message, Prince Vladimir Monomakh (1053-1125) calls them to have, first of all, the fear of God in the heart and do good, bearing in mind that the days of man on earth are fleeting and terribly dying, not repent of their sins. The … Read more
The most long-awaited event for the seminary is vacancies, when bursaks (kazennokoshtnye seminarians) are dismissed to their homes. Groups they are sent from Kiev along the high road, earning livelihood with a spiritual hymn to well-to-do farms. Three bursaks: the theologian Freebies, the philosopher Homa Brutus and the rhetorician Tiberius Horobets, – straying into the … Read more
MM Prishvin At the walls of the city of the invisible. Bright Lake My native land is a small estate of the Orel province. There, after listening to arguments at religious and philosophical meetings in St. Petersburg, I decided to go to look around, to find out what the wise forest elders think. So began … Read more
Mechanic Etienne Lantier in search of work wandered into coal mines. There he meets an old man, the Immortal (Vincent Mahe), so nicknamed that he was taken three times from the ground where he was to die. The Mae family has been working for the Coal Mining Company for a hundred and six years. Morning … Read more
The first book. The Sisters Beginning in 1914, St. Petersburg, “tormented by sleepless nights, deafening his longing for wine, gold, bezlyuboy love, tearing and powerless sensual sounds of tango – the death hymn lived as if waiting for a fateful and terrible day.” A young, clean girl, Daria Dmitrievna Bulavina, arrives in St. Petersburg for … Read more
Colonel Pryamikov and the Dobrov Raisee meet in the house of the chairman of the Civil Chamber, Krivosudov. Straicomov complains that his neighbor started a lawsuit against him. Dobrov, wishing to regret his unlucky friend, calls Pravolov (neighbor) a cunning and a vicious nonsense. He says that Pravolov went through so many cases that he … Read more
N. G. Garin-Mikhailovsky Engineers A 25-year-old young man, a graduate of the Institute of Railway Transport, appears before the reader, for whom “what for fourteen years he strove with a risk of many thousands to fall through” happened. After graduation, Kartashev wants to find a job “where they do not take bribes.” Full of such … Read more
W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair England, early 19th century. Europe is at war with Napoleon, but this does not prevent a lot of people, possessed by ambition, to pursue the pursuit of worldly goods – status, titles, ranks. Vanity Fair, the Bazaar of everyday life Fusses day and night… Two young girls leave the boarding … Read more
Henry Fielding The story of the adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Abraham Adams Starting with a narrative about the adventures of his hero, the author discusses two types of depiction of reality. “Historians,” or “topographers,” are satisfied that they are engaged in “cheating from nature.” The author considers himself to be a “biographer” … Read more