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Creativity of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin. unquestionably, is one of the best pages of Russian literature. And although he did not accept Soviet power, he emigrated to the West and wrote almost all his works there, for which he received the Nobel Prize, his works were and remain completely Russian in spirit. His favorite subject of … Read more

The author, in strict sequence, titled each of his aphorisms, writes the following: At this time, the personality has reached maturity. All the advantages are strung on two bars – nature and culture. To achieve success, you need to “act discreetly” and unexpectedly. In the basis of greatness lie “wisdom and valor”. Reason and strength … Read more

FA Abramov Two winters and three summers, Mishka Pryaslin did not have long to live at home. From autumn to spring – on logging, then rafting, then suffering, then again the forest. And how will appear in Pekashina – women are piled: this fix the roof, then lift the door. There are no peasants in … Read more

A brief summary of Oseeva’s novel “Dinka” · Brifly. Part one. Revolutionary Alexander Dmitriyevich Arsenyev has been forced to hide from the tsarist authorities abroad for several years. His family, Marina’s wife, who works as a proofreader in the editorial office, and three daughters, live in Samara. Together with them live Katya, Marina’s younger sister, … Read more

Alphonse Dode was born May 13, 1840 in the (provencial) city of Nimes in the family of the owner of a small silk fabric factory Vincent Dode (1806–1875). In 1848, his father went bankrupt, the factory was sold, and the family moved to Lyon. Without a financial opportunity to pursue higher education, a future writer … Read more

Having met Yulia’s father in society, he tries to convince him that marriage ties with the unknown, but talented and noble Saint-Pre do not infringe on the noble family of the Ethanj family. However, the baron is adamant; moreover, he forbids his daughter from seeing Saint-Pre. In order to avoid a scandal, Sir Edward takes … Read more

The action takes place in a village near Athens. Tie: a quarrel between two slaves – Dava and Sirisk. Recently, in a thicket, Dove found an abandoned baby, and in his diapers – various trifles and jewelry left in such cases by an unhappy (or carefree) mother. But Siriek, his wife recently had a baby … Read more

In Petrograd, a strange announcement appears on Krasniy Zori Street: an engineer Mstislav Sergeevich Los invited his comrades to fly to Mars on August 18. The announcement is noted by the correspondent of the American newspaper Skylys. He is shocked, wants more information. A posterior broad-shouldered soldier approaches Skrils at the same time. He admires … Read more

T. Williams The Glass Menagerie This, in fact, is a memory. Tom Wingfield talks about the time – between the two wars – when he lived in St. Louis with his mother Amanda Wingfield – a woman endowed with great zest for life, but unable to adapt to the present and desperately clinging to the … Read more

The action takes place in the provincial town of Skotoprigonjevsk in the 1870s. In the monastery, in the skete of the famous old man Zosima, the famous ascetic and healer, Karamazovs – father Fyodor Pavlovich and sons – the elder Dmitri and the middle Ivan – gather to find out their family property matters. At … Read more

Ovid Metamorphosis 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 … Read more

Action I Sicily. Servant of Don Juan, Sganarelle, talks with the stables of his wife, the daughters of Elvira, Gusman. He says that the woman went in vain after Don Juan. Guzman asks to say why he thinks so. Did Don Juan stop loving his wife? Sganarelle describes his master as a monster who, for … Read more

On one of the construction sites in Irkutsk, two girls work at the grocery store – Valya and Larisa. Valya is a cashier, she is twenty-five years old. This is a cheerful girl who does not think much about her behavior and way of life, for which she earned the nickname Valka-cheap. Her friend Viktor … Read more

1925 Rosemary Hoyt, a young but already famous after the success in the film “Father’s daughter” Hollywood actress, together with her mother comes to the Cote d’Azur. Summer is not a season, only one of the numerous hotels is open. On a deserted beach, two companies of Americans: “white” and “black”, as Rosemary called them … Read more

Fifteen years ago, the author heard this story, and he does not know why, she lives in it and burns her heart. “Maybe it’s all about her depressing routine, in her disarming simplicity?” It seems to the author that the heroine was called Lyudochka. She was born in a small endangered village Vycugan. Parents are … Read more

O. Henry Jimmy Valentine’s Appeal The famous safe burglar Jimmy Valentine, once again going free, calmly mistaken for the old. There is a series of daring robberies, losses are significant, and the evidence is negligible. The case takes such a serious turn that the investigation is entrusted to the famous detective Ben Price, which allows … Read more

A few centuries before the birth of Christ in the heart of Hindustan there was a strong, albeit a small number of people. His name has already been blotted out of history, but the zealous guardians of the legends say that this people conquered all of Hindustan. The people worshiped this woman – the goddess … Read more

White Fang’s father is a wolf, a mother, Kichi, half a she-wolf, half a dog. So far, he has no name. He was born in the Northern Glush and survived the only one of the whole brood. In the North, one often has to starve, this has ruined his sisters and brothers. A father, a … Read more

IA Goncharov Ordinary story This summer morning in the village of Grachi began unusually: with the dawn, all the inhabitants of the house of the poor landowner Anna Pavlovna Adueva were already on their feet. Only the culprit of this fuss, the son of Aduyeva, Alexander, slept, “how to properly sleep a twenty-year-old boy, a … Read more

Graham Green The Quiet American Alden Pyle is a representative of the economic department of the American Embassy in Saigon, an antagonist of Fowler, another hero of the novel. Being a generalized depiction of quite concrete political forces and methods of struggle in the world arena, the figure of O. P. carries a deeper and … Read more

Once upon a land of uladov birds of an unknown breed flew and began to devour all the fruits, cereals, grass, all the greenery to the very root. Then, in order to save their livelihood, the ulas decide to equip the nine chariots and set out to hunt the birds. On the hunt go and … Read more

SOROCHINSKAYA FAIR Opera in three acts (four scenes) Libretto of M. P. Mussorgsky with the participation of A. A. Golenishchev-Kutuzov Characters: Cherevik Khivrya, Cherevik’s wife Parasya, daughter of Cherevik, step-daughter of Khivri Kum Gritsko, a couple Afanasy Ivanovich, Popovich Gypsy Chernobog Bass Mezzo soprano Soprano Bass Baritone Tenor Characteristic tenor Bass Bass Merchants, merchants, gypsies, … Read more

The work is written in the form of a dialogue. His characters – the narrator and nephew of Jean-Philippe Rameau – the largest representative of classicism in French music of the times of Diderot. The narrator first gives a characterization to Rameau’s nephew: he certifies him as one “one of the most bizarre and strange … Read more

MA Bulgakov Kabala svjatosh (Moliere) The play takes place in Paris in the age of Louis XIV. Actors Zhan Batist Poquelin de Moliere – the famous playwright and actor Madlena Bezhar, Marietta Rival, Armanda Bezhar Moliere – Actress Charles Varlet de La Grange – actor, nicknamed the “Register” Zahariya Muarron – the famous actor-lover Philibert … Read more

The action takes place in the kingdom of Judea, in the temple of Jerusalem. Joram, the seventh king of Judah from the dynasty of David, married to Athaliah, daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, who ruled over the kingdom of Israel. Athaliah, like her parents, an idolater who inclined her husband to build a temple in … Read more

A resident of a small town of Salvador in the outskirts of Bahia, Floripedes Paiva Guimaraes, a young hostess of the culinary school “Taste and Art,” becomes a widow. Her husband Valdomiro, nicknamed Gulyak, a drunkard, gambler, womanizer and merry fellow, dies in the color of years in the midst of a carnival from a … Read more

The seventh journey of Sinbad the Sailor. Sinbad for the seventh time goes on a journey. He is traveling from Baghdad to Basra. His ship reached China. But, when Sandbad almost sailed to the shore, his ship was blown away by the wind, a storm began on the sea. Here the captain of the ship … Read more

This is, in fact, a memory. Tom Wingfield talks about the time – between the two wars – when he lived in St. Louis with his mother Amanda Wingfield – a woman endowed with great zest for life, but unable to adapt to the present and desperately clinging to the past, and sister Laura, a … Read more

IS Turgenev Mumu “In one of the remote streets of Moscow, in a gray house with white columns, a mezzanine and a crooked balcony, once lived a lady, a widow surrounded by a large courtyard… Of all her servants, the most remarkable person was the janitor Gerasim, a man twelve heights of growth, built by … Read more

The story “Adolescence” by Leo Tolstoy was written in 1852 – 1853, becoming the second work in the pseudo-autobiographical trilogy of the author. The story refers to the literary direction of realism. In “Adolescence” Tolstoy describes the events from the life of a teenager – how he reacts to the world around him and what … Read more

RUSLAN AND LUDMILA Opera in five acts (eight scenes) Characters: Svetozar, the Grand Duke of Kiev Lyudmila, his daughter Ruslan, the Kiev hero, the groom of Lyudmila Ratmir, Prince of Khazar Farlaf, Knight of Varangian Gorislav, captive of Ratmir Finn, kind wizard Naina, the evil sorceress Bayan, singer Chernomor, an evil wizard, Carla Bass Soprano … Read more

JD Passos USA The trilogy included novels “42 parallel”, “1919” and “Big Money” (1936, not translated into Russian). They give a general picture of America’s life in the first three decades of the twentieth century: “42 parallel” – the rise of the labor movement in the United States; “1919” – the First World War and … Read more

G. E. Lessing Minna von Barnhelm, or Soldier’s Happiness The retired Major Von Tellheim lives in a Berlin hotel with his faithful servant Just, with no means of subsistence. The owner of the hotel moves him from a decent room to a miserable little room. The last two months, Tellheym did not pay bills, but … Read more

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When we think of good stories, Chekhov, Turgenev, Bunin come to mind more often. But a mistake would be to think that, for example, in the second half of the 20th century there is no worthy representative of this genre. We bring to the attention of the reader a work (short summary) of Kazakova’s “Quiet … Read more

James Jones From now on and forever The protagonist of the narrative – Private Robert Lee Pruit – was born and spent his childhood in the mines in Garlan village, which in the thirties became known throughout America thanks to a strike of miners brutally suppressed by the police. In this strike the father of … Read more

The action takes place in the late 70’s. our century. Moscow. House on Tverskoi Boulevard. Kai Leonidov lives in a spacious three-room apartment. His mother with his stepfather abroad, they left for several years, so he lives alone. One day a girl Nelya comes to his apartment. She is nineteen years old. She came from … Read more

AN Radishchev Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow The story opens with a letter to a friend Alexei Mikhailovich Kutuzov, in which Radishchev explains his feelings that made this book write. This is a kind of blessing for work. Departure Having said goodbye to friends, the author-narrator leaves, suffering from parting. He dreams that he … Read more

The narrative “beginning” of the four-part poem boils down to several lines about a flawlessly educated English youth from a very distinguished family, a secular dandy who, by nineteen years, was fed up with pleasures, disillusioned with the intellectual abilities of his countrymen, the charm of compatriots, and set off on a journey. In the … Read more

German anti-fascists – dead and alive – are devoted to this book. The action takes place in Germany in several villages around the Vestgofen Concentration Camp. Chapter first The narrative is led by one of the prisoners, but it is not clear who, because he always says “we”. Near the barracks number three were cut … Read more

SERGEY SERGEYEVICH PROKOFIEV 1891-1953 Among the largest Soviet composers, Prokofiev is one of the first. His rich artistic heritage was widely recognized in the Soviet Union and abroad. Prokofiev left more than 130 works, including 8 operas, 7 symphonies, oratorios and cantatas, instrumental concerts and ensembles, numerous piano works, romances, songs, music for theater and … Read more

In the preface to the novel, a famous Czech writer briefly tells the story of the moves – the border guards. “From ancient times, the natural and reliable protection of the Czech kingdom was served by dense forests.” Then they began to cut down, but along the edges of the royal forests, in the valleys, … Read more

L. M. Leonov Russian Forest A young girl with a sonorous name Apollinary Vikhrova (actually, everyone calls her Paul) comes after school in Moscow to study. Her mother stayed there, on the Yenge, in the Pashutinsky forestry, but her father was a professor in the capital, a specialist in the forest. Only to see him, … Read more

Emelyan Pugachev was an ordinary subject of Russia, born in 1742 and (presumably), in the village of Zimoveyska. However, at that time no one suspected that historians would actively study the history of Pugachev’s uprising in the future. Briefly his biography can be described as follows: in 1769 he passed military service, participating in the … Read more

Rodolphe Tepfer Library of my uncle. The action takes place at the beginning of the XIX century. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the protagonist. In the secluded quarter of Geneva, in a house located near St. Paul’s Cathedral and the episcopal prison, a young contemplative is growing up, who soon lost his parents … Read more

The village of the landowners Prostakov. Mistress Prostakova in anger: the fortress tailor Trishka, she believes, sewed too narrow a caftan to her beloved son, a sixteen-year-old underbog Mitrofanushka. Trishka is justified by the fact that he did not study tailoring, but the lady does not want to listen. Her husband, Prostakov, a narrow-minded and … Read more

Guy de Maupassant Life Northwest France. Rouen. The May morning of 1819, Jeanne, a blond girl with blue agate eyes, the daughter of Baron Le Perthieux de Vaux, herself puts the suitcases and looks out the window again: the rain does not cease… And so you want to go! Jeanne has just returned to her … Read more

Sixty years have passed since the return of Hobbit Bilbo Baggins to the Shire. He is one hundred and ten years old, but outwardly he does not change at all. This brings the wizard Gandalf to a frightening thought: the magic Ring, stolen by Bilbo from Gollum, is in fact the Ring of Power. Millennia … Read more

IA Goncharov Oblomov In St. Petersburg, on Gorokhovaya Street, in the same, as always, morning, lies in bed, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov – a young man of thirty-two to thirty-three, not burdening himself with special occupations. His lying is a certain way of life, a kind of protest against the existing conventions, because Ilya Ilyich so … Read more

Great by choice. In the library you can download the book only for reference. This book is not about any one individual company from ours. Book J. My colleague, to. How the great ones perish. Oh, it’s ugly of course, but thanks for the direct link to download. This audiobook tells how a good company … Read more