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 works in an apartment, where there are seven rooms, which can not fail to pay attention to “zhilotovarchestvo”, carrying out a … Read more
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 her to her house; she agrees to go with him, thinking that he is her client. “House” is a basement hole … Read more
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 to the artist Guido. Ginia works in the studio and leads the company with the factory workers and the neighborhood guys. … Read more
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 new apartment in the “capital” house near Fontanka. Along the long corridor are the doors of the rooms for the tenants; … Read more
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 of the children to servants: Octave, son of Argant, was left under the supervision of Sylvester, and the son of Geront … Read more
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 events of its history and the processes taking place in the Australian reality are reflected in its own way. A story … Read more
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 – a screaming peasant woman, appreciating the modest look and rustic clothes of a stranger, takes him for a petitioner and drives … Read more
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 mustache… He really likes women, and he is in Paris. But he has three francs in his pocket, and his salary … 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
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 Khrushchevo, Solovyov volost, Yelets county, Oryol province. The village of Khrushchev was a small village with thatched roofs of earthen floors. … Read more