To Sherlock Holmes appeals for the help of Miss Dobney with the request to find her ward lady Frances. Once every two weeks, Lady Francis writes to her old governess, but for five weeks she has not heard from her. The state of Lady Francis is small, but she inherited the rarest jewels and always … Read more
Once it was predicted to the king of Argos Akrisia that his daughter Danai would have a son, from whose hand he was destined to perish. To avoid the fulfillment of the prediction, then King Akrisii locked his daughter in a copper-stone dungeon, but Zeus fell in love with Dana, penetrated there in the image … Read more
The journalist Gilles Lantier, now thirty-five, is depressed. Almost every day he wakes up at dawn, and his heart pounding from what he calls fear of life. He has an attractive appearance, an interesting profession, he has achieved success, but his melancholy and hopeless despair are gnawing at him. He lives in a three-room apartment … Read more
The main character of the novel “Kaspar Hauser” was a prototype – a real person, about whom much was written and spoken throughout Europe. He suddenly appeared in 1828 in Nuremberg, this young stranger of sixteen or seventeen, whose past was shrouded in mystery and whose short life was soon forcibly interrupted. The novel begins … Read more
VP Aksenov The search for the genre The artist of the original genre Pavel Durov spends the night in the penalty area of the traffic police of a provincial town. The bumper of his “Zhiguli” is broken “ZIL” – polowalko, shelter for the night he has nowhere. Reflecting on why he travels all over the … Read more
It constantly rains on Venus, and the sun appears every seven years only for two hours. Thousands of days filled with rain, entirely composed of rain; rumble and shower, crystal waterfalls of hail, violent hurricanes, like tsunamis that flood the islands. None of the colonists, except the girl Margot, does not remember what the sun … Read more
The place of action is a small town on the eve of the arrival of enemy troops in it. According to the author’s words, the events described in the novel are strictly real, that is, they do not pretend to any allegorical significance, however, reality is represented in it not that which is familiar to … Read more
King Udayana, the ruler of the country of Watts, was defeated in battle and lost half of the kingdom. His wise minister Yauhandharayana understands that it is possible to restore the lost only with the help of the mighty king Magadha Darshaki. To do this, Udayans need to enter into a kindred union with him … Read more
A long epic is considered by many to be fiction, comparing it with fairy tales. However, epic, that is, byl, differs significantly from folk fantasy. Of course, the events described in the stories are much exaggerated. But scientists find confirmation that they took place in real life. For example, in the caves of the Kiev … Read more
They say that there are no rules without exception, and any exception just confirms the rule. Maybe that’s the way it is. However, this statement, apparently, has nothing to do with the genius of the Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and bypasses the tenth party of himself, and his famous postulate: “Brevity is the sister … Read more