The main character lived in the village of Lamanchsky, his property was small – a spear, a shield, an old horse and a dog. His name was Kehan. The age of the hero was approaching fifty years. He was fond of reading knightly novels and gradually introduced himself as a traveling knight. He polished his … Read more
Julia Lambert is the best actress in England. She is forty-six years old; she is beautiful, rich, famous; busy with the favorite thing in the most favorable conditions for this, that is, playing in your own theater; her marriage is considered ideal; she has an adult son… Thomas Fennel is a young accountant hired by … Read more
Peru, the famous writer of the twentieth century, Herbert Wells, owns many works, including the novel Invisible Man. Characters of the novel: Griffin is a scientist and protagonist of the narrative, Dr. Kemp, vagabond Marvel. The work begins with the description of the tavern Kucher and horses, owned by Mrs. Hall and her henpecked husband. … Read more
Six-year-old girl Nadia is ill, according to Dr. Mikhail Petrovich, “indifference to life.” The only way to cure it is to cheer. But the girl does not want anything and every day becomes weaker. So she lies whole days and whole nights, quiet, sad. Sometimes she sleeps for half an hour, but in a dream … Read more
Characters. Mikhailo Ivanovich Moshkin, 50 years old. lively, busy, good-natured. Pyotr Ilyich Vilitsky, 23 years old. indecisive, weak, self-interested man. Rodion Karlovich von Funk, 29 years old. Cold, dry creature. Philip Yegorovich Shpundik, landowner of 45 years. with claims of education. Marya Vasilievna Belova, an orphan who lives near Moshkin, is 19 years old. Ekaterina … Read more
THE FLYING HOLLANDER (MARIYAK-SKITALETS) Romantic opera in three acts R. Wagner’s libretto Characters: Dutchman Daland, Norwegian sailor Senta, his daughter Eric, the hunter Mary, the nurse of Senta Helicopter ship Dalanda Baritone Bass Soprano Tenor Mezzo soprano Tenor Norwegian sailors, the crew of the Flying Dutchman, the girl. The action takes place on the Norwegian … Read more
The action takes place in our city today. A room in the style of the fifties. Evening tea. In the chair Valentina’s grandmother, next to Valina’s mother, near the mirror – Zhenya, the elder sister. Waiting for Valya. Mother is indignant. It seems to her that Valya is too dissolute: in the metro she went … Read more
Childhood and youth of Alexander Ryzhov В царствование Екатерины II, в городке Солигалич, Костромской губернии в семье мелкого канцелярского служителя Рыжова родился сын Алексашка. Потеряв в малолетнем возрасте отца, воспитывался матерью, продававшей на рынке пироги собственного изготовления. Грамоте мальчик выучился у бедного дьяка. И тогда уже стал зарабатывать свои первые копейки тем, что писал старухам … Read more
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, along the neighboring rails in the … Read more
When the narrator, old Thomas, was still small, an unusual story happened to his grandfather. He claims that evil forces will freeze anyone. Here’s how it happened. My father went to the Crimea to sell tobacco. Grandfather and Foma went to live on a shovel (a piece of land), where watermelons, melons and various vegetables … Read more