On one fine July morning I drove to my young neighbor Ardalion Mikhailovich with a proposal to hunt for grouse. He agreed with the condition that on the way we would go to him in Chaplygin, where the oak forest was being cut. The neighbor took with him the Tenth Arkhip, a fat and stocky … Read more
Georges Sand Oras The action takes place immediately after the establishment of the July Monarchy. Nineteen-year-old Opac Dumont, the son of a small provincial official, after receiving the title of bachelor, arrives in Paris. Parents deny themselves everything in order to provide the son with decent content and give him the opportunity to get into … Read more
Events unfold in 1850 in the UK. Young artist from London Walter Harthright, thanks to the acquaintance of his friend, Professor Peski from Italy, is getting a job as a drawing teacher in Limmeridge in Coumuerlende. Before leaving, Hartright goes to the suburbs of London to say goodbye to his sister and mother. He came … Read more
KG Paustovsky Hare paws Vanya Malyavin came to the vet in our village from the Urzhen Lake and brought a small warm hare wrapped in a tattered cotton wool jacket. The hare wept and often blinked red eyes from tears… – Are you stupid? the vet shouted. “You’ll soon be dragging mice to me, bastard!” … Read more
EI Nosov Red wine of victory Spring of the 45th found us in Serpukhov. After all that was on the front, the hospital whiteness and silence seemed to us somewhat improbable. Budapest was fallen, Vienna was taken. The ward radio did not turn off even at night. “In the war as in chess,” said Sely … Read more
Edward Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Every act here has its own subtitle: “Games and fun”, “Walpurgis Night”, “Exorcism of the Devil.” Forty-six-year-old George, Ph. D., a teacher at a college in New England, and his wife Martha (six years older than her husband) return home late at night after receiving the father of … Read more
AP Chekhov Cherry Orchard (in summary of the actions) Action first Manor of the landowner Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya. Spring, the cherry orchard blooms. But this wonderful garden will soon be forced to sell for debts. Five years before the events of the play “The Cherry Orchard” Ranevskaya and her daughter Ania were seventeen years abroad. … Read more
The book begins with a kind of introduction – a letter from Thomas More to a friend Peter Egidia with a request to read “Utopia” and write whether some important details had escaped Mora. First book The narration is conducted on behalf of Thomas More. He arrives in Flanders as an ambassador and meets Peter … Read more
Narration on behalf of the main hero I Died father. Mother half naked beside him on the floor. Grandmother arrived – “round, big-headed, with huge eyes and a funny loose nose, she’s all black, soft and surprisingly interesting… she spoke kindly, cheerfully, and smoothly.” I made friends with her from the very first day. ” … Read more
The narrator recalls how six or seven years ago he lived in Belokurov’s estate in one of the counties of the T-th province. The owner “got up very early, walked in a podevke, in the evenings he drank beer and all complained to me that he did not find sympathy anywhere in anyone.” The narrator … Read more