The calm current of the working morning in laboratory No. 2 was violated by the sudden arrival of the chef of Corresponding Member AN Golitsyn. He made the dispatch to the employees, and then in a grumbling voice ordered that Sergei Krylov apply for the post of nachalab. There was silence. It was believed that … Read more
M. Bulgakov Dyavoliada The tale of how the twins killed the clerk While all the people were jumping from one service to another, Bartholomew Korotkov, a gentle, quiet blond was firmly serving in the Glavtsentrbaspispate (abbreviated as Spimat) as a clerk and served in it as a whole 11 months. On September 20, 1921, the … Read more
Thomas Mine Reed Quartononka, or Adventures in the Far West The action takes place in the 1850s. in the United States of America, when slavery prevailed in the South. The narration is from the first person. The hero – a young rich Englishman named Edward in search of romance comes to the US and stops … Read more
In the autumn of 1919 Andrey Startsov came from the city of Mordovia in Semidol to Petrograd. He was mobilized in the army and arrived at the duty station. But instead of the expected dispatch to the front, Andrei is left as a clerk at the headquarters. Soon Rita comes to see him – a … Read more
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 at about seven hundred meters. Tullius and Publius did not commit any … Read more
Ian Banks Coma Bridge We literally break into the stream of the hero’s consciousness, which conveys his sensations from the “weave” to the wreckage of the car. We understand that this man was in an accident and is on the verge of life and death. He himself realizes his “problem” and talks about it in … Read more
In the “smoke” of Turgenev Potugin said: “Venus Milo is undoubtedly the principles of the eighty-ninth year.” What does this word mean? In fact, everyone is on the same line: the principles, and Venus Milo, and I, the village teacher Tyapushkin. Yesterday I went to the provincial town and was depressed by the fact that … Read more
IA Bunin Sunstroke They met in the summer, on one of the Volga steamers. He is a lieutenant. She is a charming little, tanned woman (she said she is coming from Anapa). “… I’m completely drunk,” she laughed, “I was really crazy, three hours ago I did not even know you existed.” The lieutenant kissed … Read more
Rachel gets a summons, but does not want to go to court. Jack scolds her for not respecting the law, they quarrel. Jack feels that he and Rachel are different people, that they are far from each other. In April 1971, Jack accidentally meets Elina on the street and follows her, several times finding himself … Read more
In Leningrad there live sisters – Nadia and Lida Ryazayev. They early left without parents and grew up in an orphanage. Now Nadia works at a construction site and studies in a technical school. Lida is a schoolgirl. Having come home one day, Nadia finds Lida’s friend at the school of Cyril. They argue about … Read more
L. de Gongora Polyphemus and Galatea The abundant island of Sicily, the “horn of Bacchus, the garden of Pomona” is beautiful, its fertile fields are golden, like the white wool of sheep grazing on mountain slopes. But there is a horrifying place on it, “a shelter for a terrible night,” where there is always darkness. … Read more
The action takes place in Moscow. The mother of the protagonist, thirty-seven-year-old engineer Viktor Dmitriev, Ksenia Feodorovna is seriously ill, she has cancer, but she herself believes that she has a peptic ulcer. After the operation, she is sent home. The outcome is clear, but she alone believes that the matter is on the mend. … Read more
The article is devoted to Ostrovsky’s drama “The Thunderstorm” At the beginning of the article Dobrolyubov writes that “Ostrovsky has a deep understanding of Russian life.” He then analyzes the article about Ostrovsky by other critics, writes that there is “no direct view of things” in them. Then Dobrolyubov compares the “Storm” with the dramatic … Read more
First a list of actors with detailed characteristics. Here are some of these individuals and characteristics. Pavel Nikolaevich Yeletsky, 32 years old. Petersburg official, not clever. A man is not evil, but without a heart. Olga Petrovna Yeletskaya, born Corina, his wife, 21 years old. A kind, gentle creature. Vasily Semyonitch Kuzovkin, a nobleman, who … Read more
Action 1 Phenomenon 1 Morning, living room. Lisa wakes up in her chair. Sophia did not let her go to sleep the day before, because she was waiting for Molchalin, and Lisa had to watch out for them not to be found together. Sophia asks how much time, and to convince her that it is … Read more
Distant future. D-503, a talented engineer, the builder of the spacecraft Integral, writes notes for posterity, tells them about “the highest peaks in human history” – the life of the United State and its head the Benefactor. The title of the manuscript is “We”. The D-503 admires the fact that citizens of the United State, … Read more
When Yurin Uncle Nikolai Nikolayevich moved to Petersburg, other relatives, Gromeko, took care of him, who was left an orphan in ten years, in the house of which there were interesting people at the Sivtsev Vrazhka, and where the atmosphere of the professorial family quite contributed to the development of the Jurassic talents. The daughter … Read more
N. M. Karamzin The Island of Bornholm From England to Russia A hero, a young man, talks about his travels through foreign lands. We do not know his name or age. We only know that England was the extreme limit of his journey, where he told himself that it was time to return to the … Read more
The novel “Rob Roy” gives a broad and complex picture of Scottish and English public relations of the early XVIII century. Action develops quickly, more lively than in other novels of Walter Scott. The protagonist, Francis Osbaldiston, was suddenly recalled from Bordeaux to his father on an important matter. Arriving in London, a twenty-year-old young … Read more
SA Esenin Country of scoundrels The action takes place in the Urals in 1919. The protagonist of the poem is the bandit Nomah, a romantic character, an anarchist rebel who hates “all those who grow fat on Marx.” He went once behind the revolution, hoping that it would bring liberation to the whole human race, … Read more
Family Ramsey: father – Mr Ramsey, mother – Mrs. Ramsey, children – Nancy, James, Cam, Pro, Rosa, Andrew, Jesper, Roger. They live on the island of Skye. A lighthouse is visible in the distance. First in the narrative there are a lot of thoughts of the mother, she gives an assessment of all that is … Read more
The comedy “Nedorosl” was written by D. I. Fonvizin in 1781. The main problem of the work is the condemnation of the traditional education of the nobles, in particular the provincial, their stupidity and maliciousness. The play “The Minor” is written in the classic style, which is reflected in the “talking” names of heroes, a … Read more
England, early thirties. Hercule Poirot with his old friend and assistant captain Hastings come to the seaside resort of Saint-Loup in the south of England. Near the hotel “Majestic”, in which they stopped, they meet a young girl. Nick Buckley. In conversation for a cocktail it turns out that she is the owner of the … Read more
EI Zamyatin We are a far future. D-503, a talented engineer, the builder of the spacecraft Integral, writes notes for posterity, tells them about “the highest peaks in human history” – the life of the United State and its head the Benefactor. The title of the manuscript is “We”. The D-503 admires the fact that … Read more
V. P. Kataev embezzlers courier Nikita placed before chief accountant Filippom Stepanovichem Prohorovym cup of tea, but not gone. He clearly wanted to talk. Newspapers were full of reports of embezzlement and embezzlement and a general raid in Moscow their escape from justice. Even in the house on Myasnitskaya, where their office is located, five … Read more
Plan The lyrical digression of the author about station wardens, his reflections on this estate. Meet the narrator at one of the post stations with station warden Samson Vyrin and his daughter Dunya. A new meeting between the narrator and Samson Vyrin. The story told by the caretaker: the arrival of the hussar, his imaginary … Read more
A. C. Clark Space Odyssey 2001 Planet Earth, Pleistocene, Savannah Equatorial Africa. A small tribe of Pithecanthropus is on the verge of extinction. Nature did not endow them with powerful fangs, no sharp claws, no fast legs, but in their eyes glimpses of consciousness flicker. Probably, it is these qualities that attracted the attention of … Read more
Candide, a pure and sincere youth, is brought up in the impoverished castle of a beggar, but a vain Westphalian Baron, along with his son and daughter. Their home teacher, Dr. Panglass, a homegrown philosopher-metaphysician, taught the children that they live in the best of the worlds, where everything has a cause and effect, and … Read more
Ten years have passed since Flem Snopes, with his wife and baby, arrived in Jefferson and settled behind the counter of the restaurant, half the share in which he traded from VK Ratlif to a third of the abandoned estate of the Old Frenchman. Soon he was already the sole owner of this institution, and … Read more
L. Feuchtwanger Jewish Suess The action takes place in the first half of the XVIII century. in the German Duchy of Württemberg. Isaac Simon Aandauer, the court banker of the Duke of Eberhard-Ludwig and his favorite Countess von Wurben, a rich and very influential person, has long been eyeing Josef Süss Oppenheimer, who has been … Read more
Thomas Mine Reed White Leader The action takes place in Mexico in the late 18th – early 19th century. The novel opens with a description of the holiday in honor of the day of St. John in the small Mexican town of San Ildefonso. Here all the layers of society are having fun. Among the … Read more
Chang (dog) sleeps, recalls how six years ago in China he met his current master, the captain. During this time, their fate changed abruptly: they no longer swim, live in the attic, in a large and cold room with low ceilings. The captain sleeps on the crushed bed, but Chang remembers what bed his master … Read more
William Faulkner Noise and Fury “Life is a story told by a cretin, full of noise and fury, but devoid of meaning.” To retell this story differently from what it was originally told means to try to tell a very different story, except that the people in it will have the same names, they will … Read more
Wonderful powder In the Blue Country, which was inhabited by kind and kind-hearted Munchkins, lived the morose, solitary carpenter Oorfene Deuce, who was trying to be different in everything from his fellow tribesmen. Oorfene was a master of his craft, but the things he did, turned out to be as evil as he was. They … Read more
Part one The novel begins in the Moyunkum Nature Reserve, where a wolf pair lived – Akbar and Tashchaynar. In the summer they were born cubs, and when the first snow fell, the wolves, going hunting, found that the reserve is full of people. Hunters arrived in the reserve to fulfill the plan for the … Read more
Novella, or rather a novel, “Carmen” is perhaps the most famous work of Merimee. The theme chosen for “Carmen” already had a romantic tradition, but the writer made her realistic development. The central character of the work is the Gypsy Carmen. The realistic character of this image is clearly more vivid when comparing it with … Read more
N. S. Leskov Soboryane The subject of the story is the “life-be” of the representatives of the St. Catherine’s Popovka: Protopriest Saveliy Tuberozov, priest Zakhary Benefaktov and deacon Achilla Desnitsyn. Childless Tuberozov keeps all the ardor of the heart and all the energy of youth. Personality of the Benefit – the embodiment of meekness and … Read more
Agatha Christie At 4:50 from Paddington Mrs. Elspeth McGillicady, a middle-aged woman tired of Christmas shopping in London, sits down on the train at Paddington Station, flips through the magazine and falls asleep. Half an hour later she wakes up. It’s dark outside the window. The train crashes with a crash. Then, for a while, … Read more
The poet – a handsome, twenty-two-year-old – teases a philistine, softened thought with a bloody patch of his heart. In his soul there is no old tenderness, but he can turn himself inside out – so that there are only solid lips. And he will be impeccably tender, not a man, but a cloud in … Read more
N. Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter In the introductory essay to the novel tells of the author’s native city – Salem, his ancestors – puritan fanatics, his work in the Seyme customs and the people he had to face there. “Neither the ceremonial, nor the back door of customs does not lead to paradise,” and the … Read more
Prologue. London. Soho. Fair. The street singer sings a ballad about the Mackey knife: “The shark has teeth-wedges / All stick out like a show.” And Mackey only has a knife, / And that’s hidden from the eyes. / If the blood spills the shark, / All the water is red. Mackey knife gloves, / … Read more
Sergey Lvovich Pushkin had a son, whom he named in memory of his grandfather Alexander. After the christening in Pushkin’s house on German street in Moscow a modest “kurtag” is arranged: in addition to relatives, the Frenchman Montfort and Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin are invited. A pleasant conversation with refined poetic games is interrupted by the … Read more
The story is from the first person. A narrator named Misail Poloznev, along with his father-architect and sister, Cleopatra, live in a provincial town. Their mother died. Father raised children in severity and, when they became adults, continues to demand complete submission. He succeeds in this with Cleopatra, but Misail came out of submission. He … Read more
“Kochubei is rich and glorious, / His meadows are boundless,” he owns many treasures, but the main wealth of Kochubei is his daughter Maria, who is equal in all Poltava. Maria is not the only beauty, but everyone knows her gentle nature. A lot of suitors are wooing to her, but Maria’s heart is unapproachable. … Read more
Shorty lived in one fantastic city. They were called short men because they were very small. Each short man was a small cucumber. “Babies and babies: Dunno, Znayka, Dr. Pilyulkin, mechanic Vintik and his assistant Shpuntyk, Sakharin Saharinich Syrupchik, hunter Pulka and dog Bulka, artist Tube, musician Guslya, Toropyzhka, Grumbler, Molchun, Donut, Rasteryayka, brothers Avoska … Read more
In a poorly furnished apartment Gavrilovy returned from prison Ivanov, a roommate of the thirty-eight-year-old Frontier. He says that he wants to see his newly born daughter Galya and live a quiet family life. The Gavrilovs do not believe him. Especially irreconcilably opposed to the drunkard Ivanova, the eldest daughter of Grani, eighteen-year-old Nina. She … Read more
This book is not a novel, not a story, not a lyric diary and no memoirs. Chronological connections are replaced here by associative, and the search for beauty – by searching for authenticity, no matter how bad it may seem. This is Moovism. It is a free flight of fantasy, generated by true events. Therefore, … Read more
King Eric is a strange and eccentric figure, he is extremely suspicious and inclined to unexpected decisions. Outraged by the courtyard, he settled in his Stockholm palace a mistress – a soldier’s daughter Karin, who sincerely loves and who already has two children. But at the same time, as befits a monarch, he is building … Read more
In the autumn of 1919 Andrey Startsov came from the city of Mordovia in Semidol to Petrograd. He was mobilized in the army and arrived at the duty station. But instead of the expected dispatch to the front, Andrei is left as a clerk at the headquarters. Soon Rita comes to see him – a … Read more
Max Frish Homo Faber The events unfold in 1957. Walter Faber, a fifty-year-old engineer of Swiss descent, works at UNESCO and is engaged in setting up production equipment in industrially backward countries. At work he has to travel often. He flies from New York to Caracas, but his plane due to malfunctions in the engine … Read more