A. P. Chekhov I want to sleep Night. Nurse Varka, a girl of about 13, shakes the cradle and sings a lullaby a little audibly. The child cries and does not fall asleep, Varka
This book was one of my favorites when I was a child. Now I remember, I can not say exactly what I liked about it, but I re-read it several times. The book tells
Walter Scott Rob Roy 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
Curculion means “Bread worm”. This is the nickname of a one-eyed freeloader, he took root, a cunning and a glutton who leads the intrigue in this comedy. His breadwinner and patron – an ardent
The author argues on how good the neighborhood of Moscow is, but best of all about the Gothic towers of the Si… new monastery, hence the whole of Moscow with an abundance of houses
The book consists of two parts. Some of the stories tell of Mowgli, about his life in the jungle among wild animals. At the age of two, the little son of a lumberjack is
Georg Buchner Death of Danton Georges Dunton and Ero-Seschel, his companion in the National Convention, play cards with ladies, among them Julie, Danton’s wife. Danton apathetically rant about women, their charm and cunning, about
Sophocles Trachyonians Almost all Greek heroes were kings in different cities and towns, except Hercules. His future divinity, he practiced forced labor in the service of an insignificant king from South Greece. For him,
Don Abbondio, the priest of a small village located in that part of Lake Como, where it wraps south between two mountain ranges and is all riddled with protrusions and bays, returns home after
VP Astafyev The Shepherd and the Shepherdess On the desert steppe along the railway line, under the sky, in which the Ural mountain range emerges with heavy cloudy delirium, there is a woman. There