“Tamango” by Prosper Merimee is a story not only about how clever, cruel and heartless the whites bought and secretly transported slaves, but also about how intimidated, disenfranchised, unarmed Negroes managed to capture the ship of slavers, not knowing, however, that with to do next. Receiving huge profits from the sale of “ebony”, White took … Read more
In the middle of summer, the hayfields began to boil over the Desna. Immediately on the shore we mowed out a clearing for the brigade camp, weaved from the lozenge low show booths, each to his family, at a distance, tore the kazan into the general kulesh, and so many hayfields arose temporarily. There was … Read more
JRR Tolkien Hobbit, or There and Back The hobbits are cheerful, but at the same time a solid little fellow. They are just like people, only half the size of us, and their legs are overgrown with hair, and they live not in houses, but in “burrows” – comfortable dwellings dug up in the earth. … Read more
Mathematician Kharlampi Diogenovich differed noticeably from his slovenly colleagues. With his appearance in the class, strict discipline was established. The lessons were so quiet that the principal could not believe that the students were in their places, and not at the stadium. Silence reigned as soon as the teacher entered the class, and lasted until … Read more
Charles Dickens Posthumous notes of the Pickwick Club May 12, 1827, at a meeting of the Pickwick Club, dedicated to the message of Samuel Pickwick, Esq., Entitled “Reflections on the origins of the Hamsted ponds with the addition of some observations on the theory of stickleback”, a new department was established under the name Correspondent … Read more
Chang slumbers, recalls how six years ago in China he met his current master, the captain. During this time, their fate changed abruptly: they no longer swim, live in the attic, in a large and cold room with low ceilings. The captain sleeps on the crushed bed, but Chang remembers what bed his master had … Read more
Henri Barbusse (born 17 May 1873 – August 30, 1935, Moscow) is a French writer, journalist and public figure in the international communist movement. Foreign Honorary Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1933). Member of the French Communist Party since 1923. Fame for Henri Barbusse came thanks to the anti-war novel “Fire” (Le Feu, … Read more
In the tavern “The coachman and horses”, owned by Mrs. Hall and her henpecked husband, in early February, there appears a mysterious stranger wrapped from head to foot. To get a guest on a winter day is not easy, but a visitor generously pays. His behavior seems more strange, more and more alarming to others. … Read more
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. The pilot’s work is also fruitful. The … Read more
Basil the Coriot, being the son of an impoverished nobleman, asks his father to let him go to the service so that he can help the family by sending part of his salary to his parents. The young man begins his career in St. Petersburg, settling down as a simple sailor. For hard work, diligence … Read more
VALKYRIE The first day of the tetralogy “Ring of the Nibelung” in three acts R. Wagner’s libretto Characters: Sigmund Hunding Sieglinde, his wife Wotan, the supreme god Frika, his wife Brünnhilde, Valkyrie, his daughter Tenor Bass Soprano Bass Mezzo soprano Soprano Soprano Soprano Mezzo soprano Mezzo soprano Soprano Mezzo soprano Mezzo soprano Mezzo soprano Valkyrie: … Read more
Morozova is the main character, a political prisoner. In the center of the narrative of this early work of the writer is the story of the escort gendarme Gavrilov about the girl-politician Morozova, whom he accompanied to exile. She seemed to the narrator a child: “hair is fair-haired, in one braid collected, on the cheeks … Read more
VP Astafyev Sad detective Forty-two-year-old Leonid Soshnin, a former operative of criminal investigation, returns home from an local publishing house, to an empty apartment, in the worst of spirits. The manuscript of his first book, “The Life of the Most Expensive,” after five years of waiting has finally been accepted for production, but this news … Read more
Once in a library in the evening they began to talk, the characters of Russian literature about Ivan the Fool argued. “I’m ashamed,” said Poor Liza, “that he is with us.” “I’m also embarrassed to stand next to him,” Oblomov said, “he stinks of his clothes.” “Let him get the information that he’s clever,” suggested … Read more
The novel takes place in London, in the midst of the English aristocracy, in 1923, and takes only one day. Along with real events, the reader also gets to know the past of the heroes, thanks to the “stream of consciousness”. Clarissa Dalloway, a fifty-year-old socialite, the wife of Richard Dalloway, a member of parliament, … Read more
The drama takes place in Germany in the twenties of the 16th century, when the country was fragmented into many independent feudal principalities that were in constant hostility with each other, nominally all of them were part of the so-called Holy Roman Empire. It was a time of stormy peasant unrest marking the beginning of … Read more
NV Gogol the Nose The incident described, according to the narrator, happened in St. Petersburg, on March 25. Barber Ivan Yakovlevich, having eaten in the morning of fresh bread baked by his wife Praskovia Osipovna, finds in it a nose. Puzzled by this unattainable incident, having recognized the nose of the collegiate assessor Kovalev, he … Read more
In the barber’s shop a cry is heard: “Boy, water!” And then a venomous whisper: “Here, wait!” – for the fact that the boy is not quick enough or even somehow blundered. “In this barber shop, saturated with the boring smell of cheap perfume, full of annoying flies and dirt, the visitor was undemanding: porters, … Read more
The poem, left, as it is believed, was unfinished and enlarged later The powerful demon of Tarak, who for his ascetic deeds of Brahma at one time bestowed unquenchable power, frightens and humiliates the heavenly gods, so that even their king Indra is forced to pay tribute to him. The gods pray to Brahma for … Read more
“Hunting with a gun and a dog is beautiful in itself,” says the author of Zapiski, whose love of nature and freedom is fully transmitted to the reader, and talented, authentic pictures purify and inspire the soul. Here the reader, along with the hunter, leaves in the spring until dawn. “You go out on the … Read more
In this comedy, the main thing is not the plot, but the hero, the “boastful warrior”. In the old days in Greece there were no professional soldiers, there were militiamen. And then, when the war became a profession, there were dashing mercenaries who went to serve anyone, even to the edge of the world, mostly … Read more
EI Nosov Shumit arched fescue In the middle of the summer, haymaking began to boil over the Desna. Immediately on the shore, a clearing was cut out for a brigade station, low salaflanes were poured from the lozenges, each into their own family, and at a distance they tore the kazan under a common kulesh, … Read more
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn So Huck returns to the kind widow Douglas. The widow meets him with tears and calls the lost sheep – but this, of course, is not from evil. And again, life on the phone, even at the table, relies first to mutter something over the food. Although the … Read more
Tsarevich Kandarpaketu, the son of Tsar Chintamani, sees an unknown girl in a dream and falls passionately into her. Together with his friend Makaranda, he goes to her search. One night, being in the vicinity of the Vindhya mountains, he accidentally overhears the conversation of two birds. One of them, the lane, reproaches the other, … Read more
A. V. Vampilov Farewell in June Action 1 In the street, at the bus stop, in anticipation of transport is Tanya, a girl of 19 years, reading posters. Student of the last course Nikolai Kolesov, a young man of 24 years old, is persistently trying to meet her. Soon he explains that he promised to … Read more
JL Borges Fictional Histories The Secret Miracle On the night of March 14, 1936, in an apartment in Celetnaya Street in Prague, Jaromir HladÃk, the author of the unfinished tragedy “Enemies”, the work “The Justification of Eternity” and the study of the implicit Judaic sources, Jacob Boehme, sees in a long chess game. The game … Read more
William Shakespeare Othello Venice. At the house of Senator Brabantzio the Venetian nobleman Rodrigo, unrequitedly in love with the daughter of Senator Desdemona, reproaches his friend Iago for taking the rank of lieutenant from Othello, the noble Moor, the general in the Venetian service. Iago is justified: he himself hates the self-willed African because he, … Read more
TS Eliot Barren land The action takes place in England after the First World War. The basis of the poem is the myth of the search for the Holy Grail and the legend of the poor fisherman. Parts of the poem are fragmentary and do not form unity. The poem begins with an epigraph – … Read more
Maxim Gorky Konovalov Storyteller Maxim tells us about his meeting with a certain Konovalov, and the reason for the story was a newspaper article stating that in the prison cell, the philistine of the city of Murom, Aleksandr Ivanovich Konovalov, who was arrested for vagrancy, hanged himself, apparently, hanged himself. Maxim his story decided to … Read more
JF Cooper Pathfinder, or On the Shores of Ontario Nineteen-year-old Mable Dunchen, accompanied by his uncle – the old seaman Cap – and two Indians (Fowling Arrow and his wife, the June Dew) have been for many days making their way through the endless American jungle from New York to a small English fortress on … Read more
“He sings in the morning in a closet.” You can imagine what a cheerful, healthy person he is. ” Without this textbook, which has become a volatile phrase, with which Olesha’s novel begins, it is indispensable. And it is about a former revolutionary, a member of the Politkotorzhan Society, now a large Soviet business executive, … Read more
KD Vorobiev Aunt Egorich The story takes place in 1928. The narrative is conducted from the first person; the narrator remembers his childhood many years later. Ten-year-old Sanka is an orphan: his father died in a civil war, his mother died of typhus. He lives in the village of Kamyshinka with his aunt Egoricha and … Read more
The main hero of the story is a little boy Nikita. He is five years old. He lives with his mother, and Nikita’s father is at the front. Mother goes to work every day in the field, and the boy remains at home alone. He’s scared. But my mother punished him to look behind the … Read more
Ivan Bunin’s story “Dark alleys” was written in 1938 and entered the collection of stories “Dark alleys”, devoted to the theme of love. For the first time the work was published in 1943 in the New York edition of New Land. The story “Dark alleys” is written in the tradition of the literary direction of … Read more
“My dear, when you grow up, will you remember how one winter night you left the nursery in the dining room – it was after one of our quarrels – and, with your eyes down, made such a sad face? but I do not know anyone touching you when you’re quiet, you come and squeezed … Read more
An effective leader is strong support from subordinates. To be a good boss – it is first of all necessary to establish good relations with subordinates. They have an objective assessment of the chef’s leadership style. The way he looks in the eyes of his subordinates, how they relate to him and explains his successes … Read more
My first goose Correspondent of the newspaper “Red Cavalryman” Liutov is in the ranks of the First Cavalry Army, headed by S. Budyonny. The First Horse, fighting with the Poles, makes a trek through Western Ukraine and Galicia. Among the gunmen, Liutov is a stranger. Ochkarik, an intellectual, a Jew, he feels condescending, mocking, and … Read more
The young physician Charles Bovary first saw Emma Ruo when he was summoned to the farm of her father who broke his leg. Emma had a blue wool dress with three frills. Her hair was black, smoothly combed in front on the straight parting, cheeks pink, eyes of large black eyes straight and open. Charles … Read more
Each summer the narrator came for a week to the village of Malye Vezha to stay with the old hunter Mazai and to hunt with him. One day during the hunt a heavy rain began, and the narrator and Mazai took refuge in the shed. The old man began to tell stories about village hunters: … Read more
The euphoria of the Moscow pre-New Year’s Eve in December 45 coincided with the mood of the recently demobilized from Germany captain Sergei Vohmintsev, “when it seemed that everything beautiful in himself and in life he had just realized and it should not disappear.” Four years of war, the command of an artillery battery, orders … Read more
The story “Ryzhik” belongs to the pen of the writer Alexei Svirsky. The volume of the product is large, so it will take a long time to read it. To save precious minutes and hours, you can see the product in less than 10 minutes. To do this, just read the summary. Svirsky “Ryzhik” will … Read more
Stendal Vanina Vanini Vanina Vanini is a Roman aristocrat, a “black-haired girl with a fiery gaze,” feeding contempt for the timid and insignificant soul of the young people of her circle, but selflessly falling in love with the young Carbonari, whose courage and willingness to perish for liberating Italy from the Austrians meet the passion … Read more
L. N. Tolstoy The Living Corpse Elisaveta Andreevna Protasova decides to part with her husband, Fedor Vasilyevich, whose way of life becomes intolerable for her: Fedya Protasov drinks, squanders his and his wife’s fortune. Lisa’s mother approves of her decision, Sasha’s sister – categorically against parting with such an amazing, though with weakness, person, like … Read more
In one of the cold winters the poor peasant went to the woods for firewood. Having typed a huge bundle, on the way to his hut, all saturated with smoke, the man was tired, so he decided to rest. Seated on the harvested wood, the peasant began to complain aloud about his unlucky life. In … Read more
K. Marlo Maltese Jew In the prologue, Machiavelli says that everyone considers him dead, but his soul flew across the Alps and he arrived in Britain to his friends. He considers religion a toy and asserts that there is no sin, but there is only stupidity, that power is affirmed only by force, and the … Read more
A. Pushkin Caucasian captive In the village, where in the evening on the thresholds sit Circassians and talk about their battles, there is a rider dragging on the lasso of the Russian prisoner, who seems to have died from wounds. But at noon the prisoner comes to himself, remembers that with him, where he is, … Read more
Carlo Gozzi The Green Bird Since the well-known events that accompanied the marriage of Tartaglia to the daughter of the King of the Antipodes, Ninetta, who appeared from the oranges, many years have passed. A lot of things happened in Monterotondo over the years. Smuraldine and Brighella, once burned, resurrected from the ashes: he is … Read more
Apartment Sudakov in Moscow. Its owner – Stepan Alekseevich – serves somewhere in the sphere of work with foreigners. His son Proov finishes school. Father wants him to go to MGIMO. Daughter Iskra works in the newspaper in the department of letters. She’s twenty-eight years old. She is married. Iskra’s husband Georgiy Samsonovich Yesyunin works … Read more
March was the month of nine hundred and thirty-one. In the village of Steep Luki, the windows of the collective farm office were burning late, the board was sitting, then the peasants simply converged and judged without end, they talked about their affairs. Spring was approaching. Sowing. Just now the collective-farm barn was filled in … Read more
VI Belov Carpentry stories March 1966; Thirty-four-year-old engineer Konstantin Platonovich Zorin remembers how he, a native of the village, was humiliated by city bureaucrats and how he once hated everything rural. And now he is pulling back into his native village, so he came here on leave for twenty-four days, and he wants to heat … Read more