AP Chekhov The lady with the dog Dmitry Dmitrievich Gurov married early, his wife does not like, the children are more likely to be uneasy. He does not miss the chance to make a romance on the side. On vacation in Yalta, he drew attention to a lady strolling along the embankment with a dog. … Read more
L. N. Tolstoy Albert Five people of rich and young people came one night to have fun on a Petersburg balik. Champagne was drunk a lot, the girls were beautiful, dancing and noise did not stop; but it was somehow boring, awkward, everyone seemed to think that it was all unnecessary. One of the five … Read more
Events take us to Connecticut, the farmer’s house, Phil Hohen. The action takes place in early September 1923 and at the dawn of the next day. The three sons of Hogan fled from the house in turn, very disagreeable in the father’s way, and the hand is not easier. Only twenty-eight-year-old daughter of Josie gets … Read more
The author remembers one “monstrous act” committed in the days of childhood. “Nobody knows about this deed, and the wild act for children is unheard of: at the base of a large yellow rock, on the seashore, near Sevastopol, in a deserted place, I buried in the sand, I buried one Englishman and one Frenchman…” … Read more
This work Swift can be attributed immediately to several genres: a novel-narrative, a novel-journey, a pamphlet and at the same time it contains features of an anti-utopia (and at the end of a book of utopia), and also contains elements of fiction. But most importantly this novel can in fact be considered prophetic, since all … Read more
1950’s. France. The main heroine Cecil was born in a well-to-do bourgeois family, for several years she was in a Catholic boarding house where she received a secondary education. Her mother died, and she lives in Paris with her father, Reimon. The father, a forty-year-old widower, easily flits through life, not hiding from his daughter … Read more
A. P. Chekhov Chamber No. 6 In the county town in a small hospital wing there is a room number 6 for the mentally ill. It “smells of sour cabbage, wick fumes, bugs and ammonia, and this stench makes you feel at first like you are entering a menagerie.” There are five people in the … Read more
V. M. Hugo Vengeance On December 2, 1851, President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon I, made a coup d’etat by dissolving the National Assembly and arresting the figures of the parliamentary opposition. On December 4, the army suppressed the uprising that had begun in Paris, and many unarmed townspeople, including women and children, were … Read more
Who Moduya, known as Syunkin, was born in Osaka in the family of an apothecary in 1828. She was the most beautiful and most gifted of all the children of an apothecary, moreover, she had an even, cheerful disposition. But at eight, the girl suffered a misfortune: she was blind. Since that time, she left … Read more
P. Calderon The Hidden Caballero In Madrid, Casade Campo, the favorite park of the townspeople, don Juan Carlos and his servant Mosquito await twilight. They can not appear in the city during the day: two months ago, Don Carlos killed a noble caballero Alonso, the son of Don Diego and the brother of Lysard, in … Read more