Father Ellen served in India as a major artillery major. He died, leaving a decent state. When the girl and her twin sister Julia were two years old, the mother married Dr. Grimsby Roylott, the offspring of one of England’s richest families. One of his relatives lost all his fortune, and Roylott had to earn … Read more
P. B. Shelley The Rise of Islam Shelley dedicated her romantic poem in twelve songs to “the cause of broad and liberating morality”, to the ideas of freedom and justice. The poem is written in the so-called Spencer’s stanza. During the thunderstorm raging above the earth, the poet suddenly opens up among the clouds a … Read more
ACT FIRST Paris, the times of Louis XIV. In the toilet of the theater, the Pale-Royalshtilshchik of the candles of Islam, Jean Baptiste Moliere. The bud gives water to the run-down diminished Moliere. The famous artist is very worried, because in the hall – the king. Having translated a spirit, the actor again runs to … Read more
Andrey Bely Petersburg Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov is a senator of a very respectable kind: he has his ancestor Adam. However, if we talk about times not so remote, then during the reign of Anna Ioannovna, the Kirkiz-Kaisak Mirza Ab-Lai entered the Russian service, was baptized by Andrew and received the nickname of the ears. He … Read more
Yu. K. Olesha Three Fat Men In one city the doctor once lived. His name was Gaspard Arneri. He was a scientist, and there was no one in his country wiser for him. The country where Gaspard Arneri lived was ruled by Three Fat Men, gluttonous and cruel. One summer, in June, a clear clear … Read more
Maxim Gorky Chelkash “The dark blue southern sky, darkened by the dust, is cloudy, the hot sun looks out into the greenish sea, as though through a thin gray veil, it hardly reflects in the water… There is vanity and confusion in the port. they enslaved and depersonalized them. ” A string of stevedores, carrying … Read more
The word “metamorphosis” means “transformation.” There were a lot of ancient myths that ended in the transformations of the heroes – into the river, to the mountain, into the animal, into the plant, into the constellation. The poet Ovid tried to collect all such myths about the transformations that he knew; there were more than … Read more
Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (March 6, 1929, Sukhum, Abkhazia, USSR) is an outstanding Soviet and Russian prose writer and poet of Abkhaz origin. Born in the family of the former owner of a brick factory of Iranian origin. In 1938, the writer’s father was deported from the USSR. He was brought up by his mother’s relatives … Read more
It was in 1917. The twenty-two-year-old daughter of the famous talented artist of the Royal Academy named Malkom Reid marries a beautiful baronet, known as Clifford Chatterley. Her daughter has a beautiful name – Constance Reid. Six months after the ceremony, Clifford, who all this time fought in France all this time, returns to England. … Read more
AP Chekhov Ivanov The action takes place in one of the counties of the central strip of Russia. Nikolai Alekseyevich Ivanov, a landowner, sits in his garden and reads a book. Misha Borkin, his distant relative and the manager of his estate, drunkenly returns from the hunt. Seeing Ivanov, takes aim at him with a … Read more