Anna Markovna’s institution is not one of the most luxurious ones, as, say, Treppel’s institution, but not of low-grade ones, there were only two such in the Yama, the rest – rubles and fifty rubles, for soldiers, thieves, gold coins. Late May evening, Anna Markovna in the hall for guests housed a company of students … Read more
The first of the surviving Greek novels dates back to the 5th century. BC. e. – the time of the highest power of the Persian kingdom, the Peloponnesian conflict, Greco-Persian wars and many other historical events. The beautiful Kalliroya, the daughter of the famous Syracuse strategist Germokrat, and the young Hereey fell in love. And … Read more
“This is an unusual comedy,” warns the actor, who reads the prologue, “there are no obscenities, no pimp, no whore, no boastful warrior, no foundling, no lover, abducting a lover, but only a game of fate, a vanity of human intentions and nobility of the perfect valor “. There were two neighboring regions in Greece, … Read more
G. H. Andersen Magic Hill Lizards discuss that they are preparing to meet noble guests in a magical hill. When the hill opened, an old forest fairy came out of it, which wore an amber heart on its forehead. She asked the kozodoy to blow up the invitations: on the big ball – everyone, even … Read more
The Tang military commander Zhang Shou-gui sends his subordinate, the Turk of An Lu-shan, against the Khitan. Anh is defeated. Zhang sends him to the capital. Emperor Xuan-tsong is carried away by the young concubine of Yan-guifei and is indifferent to the affairs of the government. Despite the warnings of the dignitary Zhang Jiu-lin, he … Read more
The main characters of the story are the king of Persia Solomon and his beloved Sulamith. The story consists of twelve parts. The first part depicts before the reader Persia during the reign of Solomon, tells of Solomon and his deeds. The king was about forty-five years old, when the fame of him, his wisdom … Read more
Before the revolution, the author worked as an instructor of a spare armored battalion. In February of the seventeenth year he arrived with his battalion to the Tauride Palace. The revolution saved him, as well as other spare ones, from months of wearisome and humiliating sitting in the barracks. In this he saw the main … Read more
L. Pirandello The late Mattia Pascal Matthia Pascal, a former curator of books in a library, bequeathed by a certain Signor Bokkamats to his native city, writes the story of his life. Father Mattia died early, and the mother remained with two children – six-year-old Roberto and four-year-old Mattia. All affairs were conducted by the … Read more
M. Kharitonov Lines of Fate, or Milashevich’s Chest, Anton Andreevich Lizavin, philologist, Ph. D. thesis wrote about his countrymen – writers of the 1920s. In the course of these studies, he was carried away by the work of the unknown, but very original writer Simeon Milashevich. One of the strangest stories of the latter was … Read more
Gustave Flaubert Education of the senses In the fall of 1840, eighteen-year-old Frederick Moreau returned to the home town of Nogent-on-the-Seine. He had already received a bachelor’s degree and soon had to go to Paris to study law. Dreamy, capable of science and artistic, “he found that the happiness that deserves the perfection of his … Read more