The action of Bulgakov’s story “The Dog’s Heart” takes place in Moscow. Winter of 1924-25. In the big house on Prechistenka there lives and conducts patients’ reception Professor Philip Philipovich Preobrazhensky. He lives and
In a provincial town, a young merchant of Bavarian kvass meets a walking woman in the evening. She, drunk, stands in a puddle and stomps her feet, sprinkling mud like children. The trader leads
Cesare Pavese Beautiful summer of Italy in the thirties of this century, the working suburb of Turin. In these dim scenery unfolds a sad story of the first love of the young girl Ginia
FM Dostoyevsky Poor people Makar Alekseevich Devushkin is a titular counselor for forty-seven years, rewriting for a small salary of paper in one of the St. Petersburg departments. He has just moved to a
Moliere Plutni Scapien, from the experience of his own youth, knowing full well that his sons need eyes and eyes, Argant and Geront, when they left Naples on business, were entrusted with the care
Patrick White The Human Tree This is a story about the life of two simple Australians – farmer Stan Parker and his wife Amy. Their life begins with the century, and in it the
G. Hauptmann Before sunrise The action takes place in the contemporary writer of Silesia. In the estate of Krause appears Alfred Lot, he would like to see the master of engineer. Frau Krause –
Georges Duroy, the son of the well-to-do peasants, the keepers of the vegetable marrow, is endowed with a happy appearance on the whim of nature. He is slender, tall, blond, he has a wonderful
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
In Yelets, my hometown, all the old merchants’ surnames were double. Our first name, Prishvin, was clan, official, and the second, “street”, was the Alpatovs. I was born in 1873 in the village of