Patten’s lawyer is not the full strength and fervor of the dodger and the scoundrel, as everyone around him knew. He grew old, became sick and weak and feels the approach of the end. When he was young, he easily earned money, now his strength is running out and he is of no use to … Read more
AI Kuprin Elephant Little girl Nadia (6 years old) fell ill, according to Dr. Mikhail Petrovich, “indifference to life.” The only way to cure is to cheer. But the girl does not want anything. Once she asked for an elephant. Half an hour later, my father brought her an “expensive beautiful toy” – a gray … Read more
The protagonist of the novel, Jacob Wasserman, was written according to a real person, who was often mentioned and written in Europe. They suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, this young stranger, he was sixteen or seventeen years old, whose past was shrouded in mystery, and his life was interrupted soon. The beginning of the … Read more
The end of XIX century. Countryside in Russia. Mironositskoe village. The veterinarian Ivan Ivanovich Chimsh-Himalayan and the teacher of the grammar school of Burkin, after having spent the whole day, are staying for the night in the barn of the village elder. Burkin tells Ivan Ivanych the story of the teacher of the Greek language … Read more
No matter how people try to gather together in one small place several hundred thousand, mutilate the land on which they huddle, no matter how they pile stones on the ground, so that nothing grows on it, no matter how scraping any trampling grass, no matter how fumed with coal and oil, – spring remains … Read more
H. R. Jimenez Platero and I “Platero and I” is a cycle of lyrical sketches of the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. The hero of the cycle is the gray donkey Platero, who throughout the year is almost the only friend, companion and companion of the author. In the first lines a portrait of this charming … Read more
Late in the evening on the street of Ujjayini Samsthanaka, the ignorant, rude and cowardly brother-in-law of the king of Palaka, pursues the rich geteru beauty Vasantasen. Taking advantage of the darkness, Vasantasena eludes him through an unlocked gate into the courtyard of one of the houses. By chance, it turned out that this is … Read more
The action of the parable novel was moved to medieval England. The abbot of the Cathedral of the Most-Pure Virgin Mary Joslin planned to finish building the spire that was supposed in the original design of the cathedral, but for some reason remained on paper. Everyone knows that the cathedral has no foundation, but Joslin, … Read more
John Gardner Autumn Light The novel “Autumn Light” takes place in the American province, far from the big cities. The quiet life of small towns, far from the senseless fuss and the frenzied rhythm of megacities, is not alien to the “accursed” problems of technocratic civilization, the dark, vile sides of big business and big … Read more
PART I The prologue tells about the events that occur in the poem itself. That is, about how seven peasants from the villages of Zaplatovo. Poorly. Dyryavino. Znobishino. Ridovo. Neelovo. Gorelovo began a dispute on the topic “Who lives weight ate, free in Russia?”. This nonsensical social question, Nikolai Alekseevich, not without reason gives to … Read more