V. V. Nabokov Invitation to execution “In accordance with the law, Cincinnatus C. declared a death sentence in a whisper.” Unforgivable Cincinnatus wine – in its “impenetrability”, “opacity” for the rest, to the horror
Two young people – a medical student Busygin and a sales agent Semyon, nicknamed Silva – priodararili for unfamiliar girls. Passing those to the house, but not meeting the further hospitality, which they counted
KG Paustovsky Telegram October was unusually cold, rainy. The cinder roofs turned black. The tangled grass in the garden lay down, and everything blossomed and there was no way to knead it and showered
A young American, Winterbourne, who has lived in Europe for many years and has become unaccustomed to American customs, comes to a small Swiss town of Vevey to see his aunt. In the hotel,
There was a nuclear explosion. A group of teenagers who were taken to evacuation was on a desert island. Ralph and the boy, nicknamed Piggy, find a large shell. They call all the guys.
Romantic story of Maxim Gorky “Old Woman Izergil” was written in 1894. The composition of the work is “a story in a story”. The narration is conducted on behalf of the author and the
Peter Handke Short letter to a long farewell The work of Handke is written in the first person. We still do not recognize the name of the narrator. There are not many external events
Tribute, the throne heir of the Yan kingdom, lived hostage in the Qin country. The prince there mocked him, did not let him go home. The insulted Tribute planned to take revenge on the
On the one hundred and eighty-fourth kilometer from Moscow along the Ryazan railway, “from the good half a year after that train slowed down, almost as if to a touch.” The passengers clung to
The western coast of Norway. Cloudy weather, morning half-light. Brand, a middle-aged man in black clothes and a knapsack behind his shoulders, makes his way west over the mountains to the fjord, where his