R. Akutagawa In more often The story of the Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunoske is considered the best in the world story ever written. Several people talk about the murder, everything is different, and it is difficult for the reader to establish what really happened in the thicket of the forest and in the wilds of … Read more
A. Bestuzhev Latnik “On November 22, Seslavin sent me to clear the left side of the Vilna road, with a hundred Sumy hussars, a platoon of dragoons of the Tver regiment and a dozen of donts.” So the dragoon captain begins his story. The detachment moves along the road, along the roadsides, with terrible decorations, … Read more
Main characters: Savel Prokofievich Dikoy – a merchant, a significant person in the city. Boris Grigoryevich is his nephew. Marfa Ignatyevna Kabanova is a rich merchant. Tikhon Ivanovich Kabanov is her son. Katerina is his wife. Varvara is Tikhon’s sister. Vanya Kudryash is a clerk of the Wild. Kuligin – a philistine, watchmaker, self-taught, looking … Read more
At the age of 60 the Sorbonne was crowded with crowds of students. Then, reluctantly, the university announced that not everyone will be able to continue their education in Paris. The philological faculty took a difficult decision for him: to send the lion’s share of students to the deserted Nanterre. In 1964, when the faculty … Read more
William Faulkner City It’s been ten years since Flem Snoops, with his wife and baby, arrived in Jefferson and settled at the restaurant counter, half the share in which he traded from VK Ratliff to a third of the abandoned Old Frenchman’s manor. Soon he was already the sole owner of this institution, and some … Read more
N. G. Chernyshevsky What should I do? July 11, 1856 in a room of one of the large St. Petersburg hotels find a note left by a strange lodger. The memo says that its author will soon be heard on the Liteiny Bridge and that no one should have any suspicions. The circumstances are being … Read more
George Sand Indiana The novel takes place in the era of Restoration, a time when everyone still remembers both the events of the revolution and the rule of Napoleon. In the living room of the castle of De la Bree near Paris, three men sit: the master of the house, Colonel Delmar, once a brave … Read more
In the evening, Stets played cards. Among those present was Thomas Garvey, a young man who was stranded in Lisse because of a serious illness. During the game, Harvey heard a woman’s voice, clearly pronounced: “Running on the waves.” And the rest of the players did not hear anything. The day before, Harvey watched from … Read more
The novel, which takes place in 1845-1855, begins with the return of Prince Sergei Myatlev and narrator Amiran Amilahvari after a duel in the spacious St. Petersburg house of the prince, filled with copies of antique masterpieces. The living room was turned into a fencing room, card tables were demolished in one room, and the … Read more
A dull autumn day. In the garden, in the alley under the old poplar, a table is set for the tea. The samovar has an old nanny Marina. “Eat, Father,” she offers to the tea doctor Astrov. “I do not feel like it,” he replies. Telegin appears, an impoverished landowner, nicknamed Waffles, who lives in … Read more