On the golden morning of the hot, stuffy, dusty Trinity, the day goes along the road to the glorious village of Tselebeyev Daryalsky, well, the very one who had been renting Fyodorov’s house for two years, and often went to his fellow-villager, Schmidt, who had spent days and nights reading philosophical books. Now in the … Read more
S. Zheromsky Ashes The time of the novel is 1797-1812, fifteen years after the failed uprising of Tadeusz Kosciuszko and the third (1795) partition of Poland between Prussia, Austria and Russia. In the center of the narrative is the young Rafal Olbromsky, the son of a poor old nobleman. At the carnival in the house … Read more
In the old Moscow apartment lives Klavdia Vasilyevna Savina. She has four children, all live with her. Senior Fedor – a chemist, Ph. D., recently married. His wife’s name is Lena. Daughter Tatiana – she is nineteen years old – is studying at the institute. Eighteen-year-old Nikolai works in repair shops. The youngest – Oleg … Read more
Maxim Gorky The Blue Life Meshchanin Konstantin Mironov lives in a remote provincial town. When he was a child, his parents drank and often scandalized. At the same time, the mother was a religious man and went on a pilgrimage to the monastery. My father was an oddball. For example, he amused himself by attaching … Read more
The story takes place in Switzerland, where the main character lives, the Englishman Alfred Jones, on whose behalf the narrative is conducted. Jones tells us about his acquaintance with Dr. Fischer and his daughter, Anne-Louise. The meeting between Jones and Anne-Louise was absolutely random, because in fact they were separated by a whole world. Anna … Read more
During the Great Patriotic War, the writer as an artilleryman went a long way from Stalingrad to Czechoslovakia. Among Yuri Bondarev’s books on the war, “Hot Snow” occupies a special place, opening up new approaches to solving moral and psychological problems posed in his first novels – “Battalions Ask for Fire” and “The Last Salvoes.” … Read more
Mikula Selyaninovich – one of the most popular epic heroes, is not just a hero, but a hero-plowman, beloved by the “damp earth”. Bylin begins with a story about the life of the prince’s son Volgi Svyatoslavovich. Svyatoslav lived ninety years, Once upon a time Svyatoslav resigned. Remained from him a child sweet, Young Volga … Read more
OD Forsh Dressed in stone The main heroes of the novel are the first revolutionary terrorists of the 60s of the XIX century. “Dressed as a stone for Empress Catherine II.” The inscription on the Trubetskoi bastion Part I I and Vera Lagutina grew up together, played, studied. At the age of seventeen, the nightingale … Read more
This story I heard from one of its participants, the prince’s grandson Inya, and remembered it almost verbatim. Ina had a relative, husband. his cousin. His name was Zheng. He was very eager for wine and women. Somehow friends went on a feast. Zheng suddenly remembered an urgent matter and set off on a donkey … Read more
Wilhelm finished with honors boarding school. Relatives decide to identify him in the newly founded Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. At a reception with Minister Razumovsky, he meets with Misha Yakovlev, Vanya Pushchin, Anton Delvig. Vasily Lvovich Pushkin brings his nephew Sasha there. On October 19, 1811, in the presence of the tsar and the persons close … Read more
On one fine July morning I drove to my young neighbor Ardalion Mikhailovich with a proposal to hunt for grouse. He agreed with the condition that on the way we would go to him in Chaplygin, where the oak forest was being cut. The neighbor took with him the Tenth Arkhip, a fat and stocky … Read more
Georges Sand Oras The action takes place immediately after the establishment of the July Monarchy. Nineteen-year-old Opac Dumont, the son of a small provincial official, after receiving the title of bachelor, arrives in Paris. Parents deny themselves everything in order to provide the son with decent content and give him the opportunity to get into … Read more
Events unfold in 1850 in the UK. Young artist from London Walter Harthright, thanks to the acquaintance of his friend, Professor Peski from Italy, is getting a job as a drawing teacher in Limmeridge in Coumuerlende. Before leaving, Hartright goes to the suburbs of London to say goodbye to his sister and mother. He came … Read more
KG Paustovsky Hare paws Vanya Malyavin came to the vet in our village from the Urzhen Lake and brought a small warm hare wrapped in a tattered cotton wool jacket. The hare wept and often blinked red eyes from tears… – Are you stupid? the vet shouted. “You’ll soon be dragging mice to me, bastard!” … Read more
EI Nosov Red wine of victory Spring of the 45th found us in Serpukhov. After all that was on the front, the hospital whiteness and silence seemed to us somewhat improbable. Budapest was fallen, Vienna was taken. The ward radio did not turn off even at night. “In the war as in chess,” said Sely … Read more
Edward Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Every act here has its own subtitle: “Games and fun”, “Walpurgis Night”, “Exorcism of the Devil.” Forty-six-year-old George, Ph. D., a teacher at a college in New England, and his wife Martha (six years older than her husband) return home late at night after receiving the father of … Read more
AP Chekhov Cherry Orchard (in summary of the actions) Action first Manor of the landowner Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya. Spring, the cherry orchard blooms. But this wonderful garden will soon be forced to sell for debts. Five years before the events of the play “The Cherry Orchard” Ranevskaya and her daughter Ania were seventeen years abroad. … Read more
The book begins with a kind of introduction – a letter from Thomas More to a friend Peter Egidia with a request to read “Utopia” and write whether some important details had escaped Mora. First book The narration is conducted on behalf of Thomas More. He arrives in Flanders as an ambassador and meets Peter … Read more
Narration on behalf of the main hero I Died father. Mother half naked beside him on the floor. Grandmother arrived – “round, big-headed, with huge eyes and a funny loose nose, she’s all black, soft and surprisingly interesting… she spoke kindly, cheerfully, and smoothly.” I made friends with her from the very first day. ” … Read more
The narrator recalls how six or seven years ago he lived in Belokurov’s estate in one of the counties of the T-th province. The owner “got up very early, walked in a podevke, in the evenings he drank beer and all complained to me that he did not find sympathy anywhere in anyone.” The narrator … Read more
AS Pushkin Eugene Onegin A young nobleman Eugene Onegin travels from St. Petersburg to the village to his dying rich uncle, annoyed at the impending boredom. Twenty-four-year-old Eugene received as a child a home education, he was brought up by French tutors. He spoke French fluently, easily danced, knew Latin a little, he knew how … Read more
1942 Wesley Jackson, eighteen-year-old resident of San Francisco, drafted into the army. He loves the song “Valencia”, reads a lot and reflects. His parents had long since separated. Mom and his younger brother Virgil went to their relatives, and where now the father, Wesley does not know. Wesley writes a letter to Mrs Fawkes, a … Read more
VE Maksimov Seven Days of Creation A novel dedicated to the history of the Lashkovs’ working class. The book consists of seven parts, each of which is called by the days of the week and tells about one of the Lashkovs. The action is, apparently, in the 60’s, but the memories cover episodes from previous … Read more
This happened in those early times when steppe peoples often attacked Kievan Rus. Some of them, Pechenegs, once came to Belgorod, but they could not seize the attack. They then surrounded the city and took a siege. The state of siege continued for a long time. There was a famine. Weakened people came to such … Read more
Albert Camus Foreign Maersot, a small French official, resident of the Algerian suburb, receives news of the death of his mother. Three years ago, being unable to support her on his modest salary, he placed her in an almshouse. After receiving a two-week vacation, Merso on the same day goes to the funeral. After a … Read more
VV Nabokov Camera Obscura 1928 Berlin. Bruno Krechmar, a successful connoisseur of painting, who has his wife Annelise and daughter Irma, and who has never betrayed his wife for nine years of marriage, is suddenly carried away by a stranger who meets in the cinema. She works there as a chaplain. Her name is Magda … Read more
Ales Adamovich Punishers The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War, in 1942, in the territory of occupied Belarus. “Punishers” is a bloody chronicle of the destruction by the battalion of Hitler’s punitive Dirlewanger of seven peaceful villages. The chapters are appropriately named: “First Settlement”, “Second Village”, “Between the Third and Fourth Villages”, etc. … Read more
A young man of twenty-six is a petty official who has lived for eight years in Petersburg in the 1840s, in one of the lucrative houses along the Catherine Canal, in a room with cobwebs and smoky walls. After the service, his favorite pastime is walking around the city. He notices passers-by and at home, … Read more
The action takes place on the Ryazan land in the period from the spring of 1917 to 1923. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the author-poet Sergei Yesenin; The image of “epic” events is transmitted through the attitude of the lyric hero towards them. In the first chapter we are talking about the poet’s … Read more
Falling in love with the royal daughter, swineherd Henry for a whole month persuades her to come to the lawn, to see how the pigs graze. Princess Henrietta agrees to come only when she finds out that Heinrich has a magical bowler that can sing, play musical instruments and guess what is being cooked in … Read more
“Life is a story told by a cretin, full of noise and fury, but devoid of meaning.” To retell this story differently from what it was originally told means to try to tell a very different story, except that the people in it will have the same names, they will be bound by the same … Read more
Watson (Dr. Watson, Var. Watson) is a constant companion of Sherlock Holmes. A doctor by training, a military surgeon who graduated from the University of London in 1878, serves as a chronicler of Holmes’s deeds. During the Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), a rifle bullet smashed his shoulder. By his own admission, he could not stand any … Read more
The hero of the novel Vladimir Sanin lived for a long time outside the family, which is probably why he easily mastered the threads of all the collisions that he noticed in his home and in a familiar city. Sister Sanina, the beautiful Lida, “a delicate and charming tangle of elegant tenderness and dexterous power,” … Read more
Once upon a time in a small town on the shores of the Mediterranean, the carpenter Giuseppe gives his friend Carlo the organ-grinder a talking log, which, you see, does not want to be heaped. In a poor little room under the stairs, where even the hearth and that was painted on a piece of … Read more
I. S. Turgenev Nahlebnik First a list of actors with detailed characteristics. Here are some of these individuals and characteristics. Pavel Nikolaevich Yeletsky, 32 years old. Petersburg official, not clever. A man is not evil, but without a heart. Olga Petrovna Yeletskaya, born Corina, his wife, 21 years old. A kind, gentle creature. Vasily Semyonitch … Read more
Nikolai Irteniev is sixteen years old. He is preparing for the entrance exams, and his soul is filled with dreams and thoughts about his further life purpose. In a separate notebook a young man writes down all the duties that are necessary for his moral perfection. In a passionate environment, their house is visited by … Read more
Yashka woke up when the sleepy roosters screamed, it was dark, his mother did not milk the cow and the shepherd did not drive the herd into the meadows. After eating milk and bread, the boy took the fishing pole and went to the porch. The village was still asleep. Having accumulated a full can, … Read more
Literature on the “Duke” is extremely large. However, none of the researchers of this epic did not notice humor and satire in it, and the question of ideological and political tendencies was not raised at all. All the usual questions were raised about the epic in general, and the most contradictory and one-by-one answers were … Read more
Krylov’s fable “The Pig Under the Oak” is distinguished by penetrating morality, which most accurately conveys the milestones of the time in which its author lived. Nevertheless, before you begin to analyze its meaning, you need to familiarize yourself with the textual content of the work. “A pig under an oak” is a fable, in … Read more
IG Chigrinov Weeping of the quail In early August 1941, Rodion Chubar, chairman of the Veremeykovsky collective farm, convened the last general meeting. The Germans were advancing, and it was necessary, according to Stalin’s directive, to steal a collective herd far away, so that the enemy would not get it. The drivers were the deputy … Read more
VD Dudintsev Not by bread alone Working village in Siberia. The first post-war year. The teacher Nadezhda Sergeevna Drozdova, Nadia, a tall, young, beautiful woman with a constant sadness in gray eyes, hears from her husband about some half-crazy Lopatkin. This eccentric, you see, invented a machine for casting cast-iron pipes and tries to introduce … Read more
Isaac (Isaac, Isaac) Bashevis Singer (July 11, 1904, Leonchin, the Kingdom of Poland, the Russian Empire – July 24, 1991, Miami, Florida, USA) – American Jewish writer, lived and worked in New York, In New York. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1978. He wrote in Yiddish. He was born in 1904 in … Read more
“Prayer”, like many other works of ancient Russian literature, is devoid of narrative about events. The whole text is the appeal of Daniel the Exile to the prince, asking him for mercy. The main thing that Daniel is supposed to rely on in life is his own mind. “I have scant clothes, but I have … Read more
Chapter 1-4 Dad’s girlfriend Alisa, professor-cosmobiologist Seleznev, pondered what to give his daughter on his birthday. At that time, there was a videophone call-it was Gromozeka, a cosmic archaeologist of enormous growth with ten tentacles, eight eyes, a shell on his chest and three good hearts. He flew to Earth and asked to visit Seleznev. … Read more
One summer in 1952, a crew of eight went to a small regional center of Likharevka for military trials. Among them – Major General Siver, clever and erudite; Major Skvortsov, an officer appointed to be in charge of the flight, a dandy, a merry fellow and a favorite of women; designer Romnich, the only woman, … Read more
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born on January 5, 1921 in Konolfingen, a village in the Swiss canton of Berne. His grandfather Ulrich Dürrenmatt was a conservative politician, Father Reinhold Dürrenmatt – a Protestant priest in the village. After 3 years Sister Vroni was born. In 1935, the family moved to Berne because of economic considerations. The … Read more
He was six feet tall, perhaps one or two inches smaller, of a strong build, and he walked straight at you, lowering his head and gazing stealthily from under his brow. He held himself as if he were stubbornly insisting on his rights, although there was nothing hostile about it, he seemed to take it … Read more
IVAN SUSANIN Opera in four acts with an epilogue New text by S. Gorodetsky Characters: Ivan Susanin, a farmer in the village of Domnino Antonida, his daughter Vanya, adopted son Susanin Bogdan Sobinin, the militiaman, the groom of Antonida Russian warrior The Polish messenger Sigismund, King of Poland Bass Soprano Contralto Tenor Bass Tenor Bass … Read more
Aristophanes of Frogs There were three famous writers of tragedies in Athens: the elder – Aeschylus, the middle one – Sophocles and the younger – Euripides. Aeschylus was mighty and majestic, Sophocles clear and harmonious, Euripides tense and paradoxical. Once having looked, the Athenian viewers could not forget how Fedra was tormented by his passion … Read more
“Two people, in Elizabethan costumes, spend their time in a place devoid of any characteristic features.” Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are playing toss; Guildenstern takes a coin from the purse, tosses it, and Rosencrantz, looking as she fell, pronounces an “eagle” and drops the coin into her purse. Guildenstern’s wallet is almost empty, Rosencrantz’s purse is … Read more