Zemsky doctor Dmitry Iontovich Startsev comes to work in the provincial city of S., where he soon gets acquainted with the Turks. All members of this hospitable family are famous for their talents: witty Ivan Petrovich Turkin puts amateur performances, his wife Vera Iosifovna writes stories and novels, and her daughter plays on the piano … Read more
Chapter I The story opens a story about the family of Petrusha Grinev and about his childhood. Seeking to teach the windy son “to the languages and all sciences” Father Andrei Petrovich hires the Frenchman Beaupre, who is more drunk. After some time the Frenchman is fired, after which Andrei Petrovich decides to send his … Read more
Russian military steam clipper “Zabiyaka” quickly goes to the south. Sailors cleaned, washed, scrubbed and cleaned the deck: a military ship begins the day. Suddenly there was a loud, alarming cry from the sentry: “A man in the sea!”. All rushed to the deck and saw among the waves a fragment of the mast and … Read more
From the mouth of the Oka to Saratov and further down the right side of the Volga “Mountains” is called. They are engaged here in the field of farming and in various trades. Marco Danilovich Smolokurov in his youth was going to get married together with his elder brother in one day, but Mokey went … Read more
The “seducer’s diary” is a part of the most famous book of the Danish philosopher and writer Seren Kierkegaard “Ili-Ili”, sometimes printed and separately, in the form of a novel. In the “Preface” to the book, her imaginary publisher Victor Eremita explains: the notes he publishes are found in the old office he bought on … Read more
Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky is rightly considered the singer of the merchant’s environment. His pen belongs to about sixty plays, the most famous of which are “His people – we will be counted”, “Groza”, “Bespridnitsa” and others. “Storm,” as Dobrolyubov characterized it, is “the most resolute work” of the author, since the mutual relations of tyranny … Read more
John Osborn Look back in anger Action of the play takes place in a one-room apartment of Jimmy and Alison Porter in Birmingham, in one of the major cities of Middle England on Sunday evening. Jimmy and his friend Cliff, who lives in a neighboring apartment, sit in armchairs and read newspapers. Jimmy, a young … Read more
A young rake and a mote, having neglected the affairs of the family, did not know how to keep in a boggling expenditure. He let all his possessions go in the wind, and none of his relatives wanted to shelter him. Hungry, he hung around the city, complaining and moaning. Suddenly an unknown old man … Read more
A. Pushkin The Miserly Knight The young knight Albert is going to come to the tournament and asks his servant Ivan to show a helmet. The helmet is penetrated through the past duel with the knight Delormej. It is impossible to put it on. The servant comforts Albert by the fact that he repaid Delorzhu … Read more
Hero-narrator Bromden – the son of a white woman and an Indian leader – pretends to be weak, deaf and weak-minded. He has long been in a psychiatric hospital, escaping in its walls from the cruelty and indifference of “normal America.” However, the years spent by Bromden in the psychiatric hospital, make themselves felt. The … Read more