The story begins like this: “I was brought to the hospital with typhoid fever.” The hero got “some special hospital,” where he did not like everything. For example, I did not like that the patient was “brought, wrote it in a book, and suddenly he reads on the wall a poster:” The extinction of corpses … Read more
D’Artagnan, in response to the inquiries of de Bragelon about what was happening in Paris in his absence, is indignant: “Do you really want me to instill disgust at your dear and teach you to curse the women, which is the happiness of our life?” A friend of Louise Ora Montale sends Raul for all … Read more
The action of the play from beginning to end takes place in the solemn atmosphere of the Trondheim cathedral in Nidaros, the medieval capital of Norway. On the sides of the scene – funerary niches, in the center – the tomb of Harald, the grandfather of the ruling king Hakon Shirokoplechego. The closest to the … Read more
For the first time we get to know the heroes in March 1848 in the Californian Sierra, when they almost die of starvation, as they have long since lost their way into a snowstorm and set up camp in some canyon. Two of them, Philip Ashley, a young man of uncommon mind and solid character, … Read more
KD Syamak The Choice of the Gods The main events of the novel unfold on the American continent in the eighth millennium of our era. On Earth live a few tribes of Indians, several thousand robots, created at the beginning of the third millennium, and two elderly people – Jason Whitney and his wife Martha. … Read more
The book is opened with a short copyright notice that after the death of Joaquin Monegro in his papers were found notes, something like “Confessions”, addressed to the daughter of the deceased. Some of these notes illustrate the story told by the author. Abel Sanchez and Joaquin Monegro grew up together from infancy, from the … Read more
The action takes place in the provincial town, in the house of the Prozorovs. Irina, the youngest of the three sisters of the Prozorovs, is twenty years old. “It’s sunny and fun in the yard,” and a table is set in the hall, waiting for the guests-officers of the artillery battery quartered in the city … Read more
“Cincinnatus Ts. Announced the death sentence in a whisper.” He was not forgiven for “impenetrability”, “opacity” Unforgivable Cincinnatus wine – in it for the rest, to the horror of the like (the jailor Rodion now and then turns into the director of the prison, Rodrig Ivanovich, and vice versa, the lawyer and the prosecutor by … Read more
AK Tolstoy Death of Ivan the Terrible. The action takes place in Moscow in 1584 and begins with a quarrel in the Boyar Duma: Mikhail Nagoy, brother of Queen Maria Feodorovna, argues for a place with Saltykov and draws other boyars into a match. Zakharin-Yuryev, the brother of the first tsareva wife, interrupts the debate … Read more
Two landlords, honorable people, well-intentioned, respected. One of them was retired Major-General Vyacheslav Illarionovich Khvalynsky. A tall, once slender, he is a little aged and flabby, but still “stands briskly, laughs sonorous, jingles his spurs, twists his mustache.” He has some oddities. Talking “with the nobles not rich or not,” he somehow looks at them … Read more