G. H. Andersen Nightingale Behind the garden of the Chinese emperor was a forest, and in the woods there lived a nightingale who sang so well that even a poor fisherman forgot about his seine, but then again took up his business and did not think about the nightingale until the next night. Travelers said … Read more
KG Paustovsky Cat of the thief We came in despair. We did not know how to catch this red cat. He robbed us every night. He was so cleverly hiding that none of us really saw him. Only a week later, it was finally possible to establish that the cat had a ruptured ear and … Read more
Charles Dickens Cold House Childhood Esther Summerston takes place in Windsor, in her godmother’s house, Miss Barberi. The girl feels lonely and often sentences, addressing her best friend, a ruddy doll: “You know perfectly well, doll, that I’m stupid, so be kind, do not be angry with me.” Esther seeks to learn the secret of … Read more
The protagonist of the narrative – Private Robert Lee Pruit – was born and spent his childhood in the mines in Garlan village, which in the thirties became known throughout America thanks to a strike of miners brutally suppressed by the police. In this strike the father of the hero was wounded and imprisoned, and … Read more
The theme of the last war always found and continues to find its reflection in modern poetry, and every poet in his own way comprehends and experiences it, giving birth to images in which his own ideas of the war were embodied. Rasul Gamzatov also devoted a lot of lines to the military theme. One … Read more
Beginning of the story of how God gave the victory to the Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich for the Don over the perverse Mamai and how the Orthodox Christianity praised the Russian land as the prayers of the most holy Virgin Mary and Russian miracle workers. The godland elevated the Russian land, and disgraced the Hagarians. … Read more
In one village, near the Bludov Marsh, near the city of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, two children were orphaned. Their mother died of illness, his father died in the Patriotic War. In the village, the children were helped as best they could. Nastya was often compared to the Golden Chicken, and Mitrasha was called the Muzhik in a … Read more
Alexander Green Scarlet Sails Longren, a man reserved and unsociable, lived by making and selling models of sailboats and steamships. The countrymen did not really like the former sailor, especially after one incident. Somehow during a cruel storm, the shopkeeper and innkeeper Menners was carried away in his boat far into the sea. The only … Read more
L. N. Tolstoy Morning of the landlord Prince Nekhlyudov was nineteen years old when, from the third year of university, he came to summer vacations to his village and one stayed there all summer. In the autumn he wrote to his aunt, Countess Beloretskaya, who, in his opinion, was his best friend and the most … Read more
GI Uspensky Morals Rasteryaevoy Street In the city of T. on the squalid and dirty Rasteriaev street there are many poor people: small officials, petty bourgeois, craftsmen. Among them – a young pistol master Prokhor Porfirych. He is “of the noble”: the illegitimate son of a master, a police official. But the origin did not … Read more