The central heroes of the work are old man Nikitich and a young fellow. The action takes place in the taiga. The old man Nikitich, who, from “small years dragged along the taiga”, sometimes lives in huts, which are cut down in the taiga. So it was this time. Uninhabited, but already warmed by the … Read more
Part 1 Ilya Ilyich Oblomov lives in one of the big houses on Gorokhovaya Street. “It was a man of about thirty-two or three of a kind, of medium height, of pleasant appearance, with dark gray eyes, but with no definite idea, any concentration in facial features.” The thought was walking with a free bird … Read more
With the story “After the Ball”, created in 1903, the readers met only in 1911, after the death of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. The plot was based on events that occurred with the writer’s brother. The realism of the image of reality, the unusual ring composition helped the author draw a parallel between the past and … Read more
B. Gracian Pocket oracle, or Science of prudence The author, in strict sequence, entitled each of his aphorisms, writes the following: At this time, the personality has reached maturity. All the advantages are strung on two bars – nature and culture. To achieve success, you need to “act discreetly” and unexpectedly. In the basis of … Read more
Songs about the gods The Song of Hymire Since the gods return from hunting with prey and feast they start, and the boiler is not enough for them. And here is the god Tyr, in friendship with Torah, Odin’s son, the advice is kind: “He lives in the East… Hymir the Wise” and he keeps … Read more
While all the people were jumping from one service to another, Bartholomew Korotkov, a gentle, quiet blond was firmly serving in Glavtsentrbaspispate (abbreviated to Spimat) as a clerk and served in it for 11 months. On September 20, 1921, the cashier of Spimat covered himself with his nasty long-eared hat, grabbed his briefcase and left. … Read more
“Pied Piper” – the first poem Tsvetaeva, written in exile, in Prague. This is a prophecy about the fate of the Russian revolution, the romantic period of which ended and began a deadly, bureaucratic, dictatorial one. It is the verdict of any utopia about the possibility of a people’s celebration, people’s power. This is a … Read more
E. de Filippo Naples – the city of millionaires The action takes place in 1942, at the end of the second year of the war in Italy. The Jovine family, consisting of 50-year-old Gennaro Jovine, his wife Amalia, a beautiful thirty-seven-year-old woman, their children – the elder Mary Rosary and Amedeo and the youngest Rita, … Read more
The work is preceded by the author’s introduction, which is a dedication to a certain Arabella Fermor. Pope warns Arabella that she is too serious about his creation, explaining that it pursues “the only goal: to entertain a few young ladies” endowed with sufficient common sense and sense of humor. The author warns that in … Read more
The narrative begins with a sad event. A wounded horse stands clearly in front of the reader. The animal regretted the miller of Berezhki village and sheltered it at home. But it was not easy for the elderly man to feed his horse in the winter. In fact at this time there is no fresh … Read more
Kai Munk Nils Ebbesen Nils Ebbesen, leader of the Dutch peasants who rebelled against the Holstein rule (Holstein – the Russian name of the historic German province of Hollytein, adjacent to Denmark), died in the battle of Skanderborg on November 2, 1340. However, he was glorified by another, which occurred earlier in the spring of … Read more
In the village house of Darya Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, a former beauty and a capital lioness who, far from civilization, still organizes her salon, awaits a baron, an erudite and a connoisseur of philosophy who promised to acquaint her with her scientific research. Lasunskaya takes the conversation with the audience. This … Read more
ORPHEUS Opera in three acts Libretto by R. Calzabigi and de Molina Characters: Orpheus Eurydice Amur Tenor (mezzo soprano) Soprano Soprano Shepherds, cowherds, furies, hellish spirits, blissful shadows. The plot is borrowed from the ancient myth. PLOT In the beautiful secluded grove of laurels and cypresses – the tomb of Eurydice. Orpheus laments his girlfriend. … Read more
Osip Ivanovich Dymov, titular counselor and doctor of thirty-one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: an intern and a draftor. From nine o’clock in the morning until noon he takes the sick, then goes to open the corpses. But his income is barely enough to cover the costs of his wife – … Read more
Analytical abilities are not peculiar to every mind and are inaccessible to analysis. To this conclusion comes the Narrator, having met in Paris in the summer of 1818 with a certain Auguste Dupin, a descendant of an impoverished noble family, who astonished him at the first meeting with extensive erudition and fresh imagination. Young people … Read more
Joyce Carey Out of love for one’s neighbor England, 1990 – 1920’s. The history of Chester Nimmo, a man who was only one step away from the post of prime minister of England, is told by his ex-wife. Nina Woodville gets acquainted with Chester when he serves as a clerk in an office for the … Read more
The memo book describes the first 10 years of the child’s life, which he spent in Ufa and the villages in the Orenburg province. The narrator reproduced the perception of children, for which everything is absolutely new and all equally important, events he does not divide into secondary and main: therefore in this book there … Read more
Achilles Tatiye Leucippa and Clitophon In the Phoenician city of Sidon the author meets a young man who tells him an unusual story of his love. A native of Tire, the young man Clitophon was already preparing to marry Kadligon – his daughter’s daughter from a second marriage. But here from the city of Byzantium … Read more
Peace is not for Robinson, he hardly hangs out in England for several years: thoughts about the island are haunted him day and night. His wife’s age and sensible speeches keep him for the time being. He even buys a farm, intends to engage in rural labor, to which he is so accustomed. The death … Read more
Novella is a different version of the same event, expressed by different people. The woodcutter told during the interrogation that he had found the corpse of a man in a grove under a mountain, where bamboo grows interspersed with young cryptomeria. The man was lying on his back, he had a light blue suikan, in … Read more
KG Paustovsky Smoke of the Fatherland Having received from the famous Pushkinist Schweitzer the invitation to come to Mikhailovskoye, the Leningrad artist-restorer Nikolai Henrykovich Vermel put aside his urgent work on the frescoes of the Trinity Church in Novgorod, and together with his partner and pupil Pakhomov went to Schweitzer, who rummaged in the Mikhailovsky … Read more
Pushkin’s story “The Snowstorm” was written in 1830 in Boldino. The story was the last product of the prosaic cycle “The Tale of Belkin,” published in St. Petersburg in 1831. The story “Snowstorm” is written in the traditions of the literary realism direction. The events of the work cover a period of time from 1811 … Read more
The action takes place in 1984 in London, the capital of the Runway number one, the province of Oceania. Winston Smith, a short, frail man of thirty-nine, is going to start a diary in an old thick notebook recently bought in a junk shop. If the diary is found, Winston is waiting for death or … Read more
VV Nabokov The Real Life of Sebastian Knight “Sebastian Knight was born on December 31, 1899 in the former capital of my fatherland” – this is the first phrase of the book. Her younger brother Knight, pronounced in the novel by the letter “V.”, pronounces it. Sebastian Knight, the famous writer, a native of Russia, … Read more
Zhenya Lyuwers was born and grew up in Perm. In the summer they lived on the banks of the Kama River at the dacha. One day, waking up in the middle of the night, Zhenya was frightened by the lights and sounds on the other side of the river and burst into tears. Father, entering … Read more
The narrative is conducted on behalf of a certain N. N. He was then at the age of 25, he had just “broken free” and went abroad not so much to continue his education as to see the world. Traveling without a goal and plan, he observed people, made acquaintances, not including the need to … Read more
If the military ranks were appropriated to the birds, then this goose should have been given to the admiral. All he had was an admiral: a stance, a gait, and a tone, as he talked to other village geese. He walked important, pondering every step. When the goose on the shallows rose to its full … Read more
SA Esenin Anna Snegina The action takes place on the Ryazan land in the period from the spring of 1917 to 1923. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the author-poet Sergei Yesenin; The image of “epic” events is transmitted through the attitude of the lyric hero towards them. In the first chapter we are … Read more
A well-known writer R. after a three-day trip to the mountains returns to Vienna and, looking at the number in the newspaper, recalls that on this day he turns forty-one. After reading the accumulated mail, he puts aside a thick letter written in unfamiliar handwriting. A little later, comfortably sitting in a chair and lighting … Read more
One of the features of the composition of the novel is the so-called “framework narrative”. The general plot canvas serves as a frame for numerous false novels. However, in the novel of Maturin, the attentive reader will catch the absolute sequence of the general plot, in which the author does not for one moment lose … Read more
To Sherlock Holmes, the big financial tycoon Neil Gibson, nicknamed the Golden King, is asking for help. Gibson’s wife was found in a park at the entrance to the Torsky Bridge, dressed for dinner, with a shot through the flight head. Near the corpse, no weapons were found. Suspicion fell on governess Gibson’s children, Miss … Read more
Nicholas Erfa was born in 1927 in the family of a brigadier general; after a brief service in the army in 1948, he entered Oxford, and a year later his parents were killed in a plane crash. He was left alone, with a small but independent annual income, bought a second-hand car – among the … Read more
The leader of the northern nomads brought to the Great Wall a hundred thousand soldiers to call himself a tribute to the Chinese sovereign, to whom he sent an ambassador. with rich gifts. The ambassador must also ask the Chinese princess to marry a nomadic ruler. In the meantime, the cunning and treacherous dignitary Mao … Read more
LF Baum The Amazing Wizard of Oz The girl Dorothy lived with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in the Kansas steppe. Uncle Henry was a farmer, and Aunt Em was farming. In these places, hurricanes often raged, and the family escaped from them in the cellar. One day Dorothy hesitated, did not have time to … Read more
Andrei Erin, a carpenter of a small workshop, decided. Arriving home, he tells his wife Zoya that he lost money – one hundred and twenty rubles, for which it was planned to buy jackets for children. Having received such unpleasant news, his wife grabs a skillet and starts to fight and swear with her husband. … Read more
“The Tale of the Barrel” is one of the first pamphlets written by Jonathan Swift, however, unlike the “Battle of Books” that was created around the same period, where it was mainly about subjects of literary character, “The Tale of the Barrel,” with its relatively small volume, contains, as it seems, practically all conceivable aspects … Read more
In the small town of Oldershote, where the military unit is quartered, Colonel James Barclay, a valiant veteran who began serving as an ordinary soldier, was killed and was promoted to officers for bravery. In his youth, he married the daughter of a sergeant of his regiment, Nancy. After living for thirty years, the couple … Read more
Ruprecht met Renata in the spring of 1534, returning after ten years of service to the Landsknecht in Europe and the New World. He did not have time to reach Cologne before dawn, where he once studied at the university and near which was his native village Lozgeym, and spent the night in a lonely … Read more
“All the mathematicians with whom I had to meet at school and after school were people who were sloppy, weak-spirited and quite genius.” But one mathematician in our school was different from all the others. He was neither weak-willed nor slovenly. “His name was Harlampy Diogenovich, like Pythagoras, he was of Greek origin.” He appeared … Read more
BI Balter Goodbye, boys! That spring we finished the ninth grade. Each of us had plans for the future. I (Volodya Belov), for example, was going to become a geologist. Sasha Krieger was supposed to go to the medical institute, because the doctor was his father. Vitka Anikin wanted to become a teacher. Sasha and … Read more
During a break in the meeting, the members of the Trial Chamber are informed from the newspaper about the death of Ivan Ilyich Golovin, which followed on February 4, 1882, after several weeks of incurable illness. The companions of the deceased, who loved him, involuntarily count the possible relocation in the service, and everyone thinks: … Read more
Henrik Ibsen Ghosts The action takes place in the modern Ibsen of Norway in the Fru Alwing Manor on the west coast of the country. There is a fine rain. With a rustle of wooden soles, Engstrand’s carpenter enters the house. The servant Regina orders him not to make noise: upstairs the son of Frou … Read more
The protagonist of the story – Chudik, with whom something happens all the time – is going to the Urals, to his brother, whom he has not seen for twelve years. Collected things, the next day went to buy train tickets. Before departure there was a lot of time, and he decided to buy gifts … Read more
Homer the Odyssey The Trojan War was started by the gods in order to end the heroes’ time and the present, human, iron age came. Who did not die near the walls of Troy, he had to die on the way back. Most of the surviving Greek leaders sailed to their homeland, as they sailed … Read more
V. Irving The ghost-ghost In the mountains of Odenwald in southern Germany stood the castle of Baron von Landshort. He fell into decay, but his owner – a proud descendant of the ancient genus Katsenelenbogen – tried to maintain the appearance of former grandeur. The baron had a beautiful daughter, brought up under the vigilant … Read more
The narrative begins in the early morning, when the maid Lisa knocks on the bedroom door of Sofya Famusova. Sophia is not alone – she spent the whole night talking with the secretary of her father Molchalin, but she does not want anyone to know about it. Leaving Sophia’s room, Molchalin faces her father. Famusov … Read more
A. de Saint-Exupery The Planet of Men The book is written in the first person. Exupery dedicated it to one of his fellow pilots – Henri Guillaume. A person reveals himself in the fight against obstacles. The pilot is like a peasant who cultivates the earth and thereby extorts from nature some of its secrets. … Read more
S.-G. Colette My angel She is almost fifty, he – half as many, their relationship lasts for seven years. She calls him an Angel. He is going to marry: his mother found him a bride – a young Edmey. Leonie Walson, known as Lea de Louval, completes the successful career of a secured courtesan. She … Read more
Two German soldiers – Hans and Willy – went to the French farm to ask how to drive to Soissons (one of the counties of France). The door was opened by a young girl who answered that she did not know the way. Then the soldiers went into the house and obtained an answer from … Read more
The novel tells of one day of the sixteenth day of June 1904 from the life of a 34-year-old Dublin Jew Leopold Bloom and twenty-two-year-old Stephen Daedalus. Three parts of a huge book, divided into eighteen episodes, should, according to the author, relate to the Homeric Odyssey (Ulysses – the Latin transcription of the name … Read more