PART ONE “Evenings…”, consisting of 8 stories, are divided into exactly 2 parts, and each is preceded by a preface of the imaginary publisher. In the first, describing his farm, he gives the characteristics of some particularly colorful inhabitants of Dikanka that they woo in the evenings in the “Pasichnikov hovel” and tell those strange … Read more
The hottest place in hell is destined for those who remain neutral during a moral crisis. All works of art and literature, as well as scientific data and historical events, mentioned in this book, are real. The consortium is a private organization with offices in seven countries. Its name has been changed for security reasons … Read more
Edgar Allan Poe Unusual adventure of a certain Hans Pfaal An extraordinary event happened in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. Namely: gathered in the square, the citizens could observe the following picture: a balloon dropped from the sky. Glued from old newspapers, the balloon was generally of a strange shape, resembling a hood topped down … Read more
Opens the poem of stanzas about the beautiful nature, torn by the storms of violence and arbitrariness of Greece, the country of the heroic past, bent under the heels of the invaders: “Here and these islands: / Here – Greece, she is dead; / But in the coffin is good; / One scares: where Is … Read more
Roman Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons” was written in 1861. He was immediately destined to become a symbol of the age. The author particularly clearly expressed the problem of the relationship between two generations. For an understanding of the plot of the work, we suggest reading the “Fathers and Sons” in a summary of the chapters. … Read more
Part one. Robinson Exploring the space, the Earthman Maxim Kammerer crashes and lands on an unknown planet. Maxim remains unharmed, but his ship explodes, and he finds himself in the forest. The atmosphere is suitable for breathing, the surrounding situation is similar to the terrestrial. After a while, Maxim meets several Aborigines who bring him … Read more
Mozdok steppe. There is a war with fascist Germany. I’m a fighter, mortar. I’m a Muscovite, I’m eighteen years old, the second day at the front line, a month in the army, and I’m bringing the regimental commander “a very responsible package.” Where this commander is unknown. And for the failure to complete the assignment … Read more
I. A. Brodsky Marble In the second century after our era, two people are sitting in the prison cell – Tullius Varro and Publius Marcellus. The prison is located in a huge steel tower, about a kilometer in height, and the chamber Publius and Tullia is located approximately at an altitude of seven hundred meters. … Read more
The author’s father was born in Switzerland, in Basel. His grandfather Ivanovsky had three sons. Father was the youngest in the family, as they say – misinic, that is, little finger. When his father graduated from college and was preparing to enter the university, the idea arose to go to Russia, to the homeland of … Read more
GK Chesterton The Return of Don Quixote The amateur performance staged in the halls of the former medieval abbey, now the estate of Baron Sivud, changed the fate of its participants and many other people, contributed to the age-old struggle of social revolutionists and conservative aristocrats, proved to be very instructive an episode in the … Read more