Herman Melville White Pea Jacket In 1843, in a harbor of the Pacific, a young sailor – it is easy to recognize the hero of the novel “Taipi”, continuing his journey home – enters the American frigate “Neversink.” Since there is not a single extra sailor’s jacket on the ship after many years of sailing, … Read more
The action takes place in the thirties and ends in the spring of 1941. The sisters of Makiok belong to an ancient family. At one time, their name was known to all residents of Osaka, but in the twenties the financial situation of Makiyoka’s father was shaken, and the family gradually became poor. There were … Read more
From the county town of the N-provincial province, a battered britzka departs in the July morning, in which the merchant Ivan Ivanovich Kuzmichev, the rector of the N-th church of Fr. Christopher of Syria and nephew of Kuzmichev Egorushka, a boy of nine, sent by his mother, Olga Ivanovna, the widow of the college secretary … Read more
N. Gogol Dead Souls Volume One The proposed story, as will become clear from the following, occurred somewhat shortly after the “glorious expulsion of the French.” In the provincial town of NN comes the college counselor Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov (he is not old and not too young, neither fat nor thin, looks rather pleasant and … Read more
The main character of the poem is Vasily Terkin. It’s a guy at least where he can stand up for himself and the eater is excellent. Terkin is a veteran fighter. This is his second war, the first was Finnish. Terkin is talking about that old war. He remembers how one day his squad stopped … Read more
The central character of Ivan Bunin’s story has never been mentioned for the entire story by name. On the ship, in Capri and in Naples, he is called the gentleman from San Francisco. In the described time period he is 58 years old, and he goes on a two-year tour of the Old World, accompanied … Read more
Prosper Merimee The chronicle of the reign of Charles IX of 1572. In France religious wars between Catholics and Huguenots are in full swing. There is a fierce struggle for power in which the interests of the three main parties – Protestants or Huguenots – are colliding (after the death of Prince Conde, the valiant … Read more
LN Andreev Grand Helmet Four players play in the “screw” three times a week: Evpraksiya Vasilievna with his brother Prokopy Vasilievich against Maslennikov and Yakov Ivanovich. Yakov Ivanovich and Maslennikov absolutely do not approach each other as partners: the thin old man Yakov Ivanovich is extraordinarily cautious and pedantic, he never takes risks, unlike the … Read more
LP Hartley Mediator Aging Lionel Colston recalls the days he spent with a boy from his school friend Markus Model at the Brande Hall estate in the summer of 1900. The belief in the inviolability of the centuries-old order, when everyone should occupy a strictly defined position in society, corresponding to its origin, is the … Read more
F. Sacchetti Three hundred novels In the preface to his book, the author confesses that he wrote it, following “the example of the excellent Florentine poet, Messer Giovanni Boccaccio.” “I, the Florentine Franco Sacchetti, an ignorant and rude man, asked himself to write a book for you, collecting in it stories about all those unusual … Read more