In the theater – the premiere, in the main role – a mediocre actor Monfleri. But the poet and the brethren, the Gascon of Cyrano de Bergerac, forbade this “foolish jester” to appear on stage, and, as soon as Cyrano’s menacing voice is heard in the hall, the actor runs away frantically from the stage. … Read more
The story-parable “The Green Lamp” by A. Green talks about the amazing life story of two completely different people. First – the pauper John Eve, an Irishman who came to London in search of work and later became a wealthy man. The second is Stilton, a millionaire whose fortune totaled 20 million pounds, which went … Read more
Joseph Heller Amendment-22 The fictional island of Pianosa in the Mediterranean, invented by the author’s fantasy base of the US Air Force. Quite real World War II. However, each of the numerous characters of this extensive literary fresco has its own war, for the sake of victory in which they spare no effort, no life, … Read more
The novel “Nineties” is the first part of the famous trilogy, which also includes the novels “Golden Miles” and “Winged Seeds”. The trilogy covers sixty years of Australian history, dating back to the nineties of the last century. It has the same heroes; their fate and relations the writer traces with unflagging attention. Nineties – … Read more
Florent returned to Paris, where seven years ago, in December 1851, after a barricade battle in the night city, was sent into exile, to the hell of Cayenne. He was taken only for the fact that he, like a lost man, wandered around the city at night and his hands were bloody-he was trying to … Read more
The old people Afanasy Ivanovich Tovstogub and his wife Pulcheria Ivanovna live alone in one of the remote villages, called Old Rus in the Little Russia. Their life is so quiet that a guest who has unexpectedly come to a low bar-house, buried in the greenery of the garden, the passions and unsettling worries of … Read more
The peasant and front-line soldier Ivan Denisovich Shukhov turned out to be a “state criminal”, a “spy” and got into one of Stalin’s camps, like millions of Soviet people, guilty without conviction at the time of the “personality cult” and mass repressions. He left home on June 23, 1941, on the second day after the … Read more
Leaving on a business trip to Siberia, my father instructed me to buy a gift for my mother’s birthday – he did not have time to return to the holiday. So I got ten rubles in my hands. I changed the top ten the next day. My bosom friend Sashka Smolin did not believe that … Read more
Two young girls, “poplar and birch”, Lizaveta Grigoryevna Bakhareva and Eugenia Petrovna Glovatskaya return from Moscow after graduation from the institute. Along the way, they enter the monastery to Aunt Bakhareva, Mother Superior of Agnia, where Lisa shows new views on the role of women in the family and life. There, the girls get acquainted … Read more
Summer of 1914. In his Ukrainian estate Molinci lives a beautiful young landowner Evelina Royskaya. She has two sons: Yuzek is seventeen, a sweet, serious boy, and unbridled Valerek fourteen years old. Her husband studied agriculture in English agronomic journals and tried to instill in the Ukrainian estate English ways of farming. In the estate … Read more