Main characters: Gordei Karpich Tortsov is a rich merchant. Pelageya Yegorovna is his wife. Lyubov Gordeyevna is their daughter. We love Karpich Tortsov – his brother, got lost. African Savzhich Korshunov – the manufacturer. Mitya is the steward of Tortsov. The action takes place in a county town, in the house of merchant Tortsov, during … Read more
During his life, Dvorak wrote not a few operas, but the most famous and loved by the viewer was the latter – “Mermaid”. The sea maiden of Undine, or, as it is called by the Slavs, the Rusalka, worried the imagination of artists before and after Dvorak. Her image was inspired by F. de la … Read more
E. G. Kazakevich Star A platoon of Soviet intelligence officers entered the village. It was an ordinary western Ukrainian village. The commander of scouts Lieutenant Travkin thought about his people. Of the eighteen former, proven fighters, he has only twelve left. The rest have just been recruited, and what they will be in the case … Read more
O. Henry Department of Philanthropology After another successful scam, Peters and Tucker decide to become philanthropists. Once in the provincial town of Floresville, they, with the consent of local residents, open the “World University” there, and they themselves become his trustees. On the first of September, the newly-opened educational institution hospitably opens the doors to … Read more
O. de Balzac Father Gorio The main events take place in the boarding house of “mother” Voke. At the end of November 1819, seven permanent “spongers” are found here: on the second floor – the young young lady Quiz Tyfer with a distant relative of Madame Couture; on the third – a retired officer Poiret … Read more
KI Chukovsky Crocodile In Petrograd Crocodile walks the streets. He smokes cigarettes and speaks Turkish. And people go after him, scoff, tease and offend. And then the dog also expresses his contempt for him – he bites it in the nose. And the crocodile swallows the doggie. The people are indignant, angry: “Hey, hold him, … Read more
The text of Bradley Pearson’s book The Black Prince, or the Feast of Love is framed by the foreword and afterword of the publisher, from which it follows that Bradley Pearson died in prison of transient cancer, which he opened shortly after he finished the manuscript. Wanting to restore the honor of a friend and … Read more
The novel takes place in England in the early sixties. The heroine of the novel, Emma Evans, on whose behalf the story is narrated, recalls the events that happened to her a few months earlier. Emma’s husband David is an actor. He acts mainly on television, but once the famous theater director Wyndham Ferrer invites … Read more
Part 1. Two murdered girls Paul serves as the head of the prison guard in the suicide bomber, which because of the green linoleum is called the Green Mile. In the adjoining to the Mile room there is an electric chair. In that year, three more Miley guards are added one more – Percy. This … Read more
Once, during the hunting, the author was caught in a strong thunderstorm and he had to look for shelter in the forester’s cottage. The forester was incredible growth and enormous strength. His name was Foma Kuzmich, he had the nickname Biryuk. The author had already heard about him. The peasants believed that no more such … Read more