Jayadeva Sung Govinda Erotic-allegoric poem in honor of Krishna – Govinda (“Shepherd”), the earthly incarnation of the god Vishnu. In the blossoming spring time in the Vrndavana forest on the bank of the Yamuna, Krishna’s beloved Radha languishes in separation from her beloved. The friend tells that Krishna leads cheerful round dances with charming cowherd … Read more
Kuchum lives in the world, and he owns all of the Siberian land, works: he writes royal orders, collects tribute, he does not pay anyone. Rich very king Kuchum, he has plenty of everything: both precious necklaces and monsters and furs. He has two beautiful wives, one blue-eyed, the other black-eyed, Kuchum loves wives, cherishes, … Read more
Events take place many years ago in a distant African country. Boas tirelessly hunt for rabbits, and monkeys and elephants observe neutrality. Despite the fact that rabbits usually run very fast, at the sight of boas they seem to fall into a stupor. Boas do not choke rabbits, but as if hypnotize them. Once a … Read more
1902 President of the United States – Teddy Roosevelt. City of Kew-Rochelle, New York. On the fashionable Avenue of Krugozor, in a house on a hill surrounded by Norwegian maples, the family – Grandfather, Father, Mother, Baby and Younger Brother Mother – live. The life of the family is full of spirituality and is blessed … Read more
The action takes place in the first half of the XVIII century. in the German Duchy of Württemberg. Isaac Simon Aandauer, the court banker of the Duke of Eberhard-Ludwig and his favorite Countess von Wurben, a rich man and very influential, has long been eyeing Josef Süss Oppenheimer, who works as a financier in various … Read more
William Faulkner Mansion For the murder of a Houston farmer Mink Snoups was sentenced to life imprisonment in the prison prison of Parchment, but he did not regret a moment that he then pulled the trigger. Houston deserved death – and not by the fact that, according to the verdict of Bill Warner, Mink spent … Read more
The action takes place in Italy, in a seaside hotel. The main characters are Americans, a married couple. The husband’s name is George, the author does not mention the name of his wife. The husband lies on the bed in the hotel room and reads the book. An American is standing by the window and … Read more
AN Ostrovsky Profitable place The action of comedy takes place in Moscow, in the first years of the reign of Alexander II. The old important official, Aristarkh Vladimirovich Vyshnevsky, who goes out into the big “richly furnished hall” with his young wife Anna Pavlovna (both in the morning negligee) from her rooms, reproaches her in … Read more
The work precedes the author’s instruction about the possible double reading of his work: one option is a sequential reading of fifty-six chapters forming the first two parts of the novel, ignoring the third, combining the “optional chapters”; another option is a whimsical order of movement according to the chapters in accordance with the table … Read more
Kalidasa Shakuntala The powerful Dushyant king comes hunting in a peaceful forest of hermits and meets three young girls, watering flowers and trees. In one of them, Shakuntala, he falls in love at first sight. Posing himself as a servant of the king, Dushyanta asks who she is, for she fears that, being of a … Read more