Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, whose long, fiery curls, combined with a rough chin, suggested the connection of an angel and a monkey, and Gabriel Syme, a young man in a dapper suit, with a graceful blond man, met in the romantic and strange corner of London, called Saffron Park. a beard and a poet … Read more
Victor Sosnora The Day of the Beast “The Yaureys left for Israel, the deer fled to Finland, the fish went to Japan, there were instants and dissidents in the capital, they fought.” This is how the poet who lives in Leningrad, which he calls the Capital, tells about his time. However, he calls everything in … Read more
Seventeen-year-old pioneer Seva Shcheglov lives in the Altai state farm since the day of its foundation. He remembers how his parents huddled in a snow-covered tent and raised virgin lands. Now their state farm is considered the best in the Altai. This summer, Seve sing a ticket to “Artek”. The boy understands that he is … Read more
The Second World War. Pacific theater of military operations. The history of the landing and capture by the Americans of the fictional island of Anapopey, where the Japanese concentrated, develops as it were on several levels. It is a chronicle of military operations, a detailed reconstruction of the atmosphere of the everyday life of the … Read more
In the summer of 1902, John Barrington Ashley from the town of Coletown, the center of a small coal mining district in southern Illinois, was brought to trial on charges of killing Breckenridge Lansing, a resident of the same city. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Five days later, on the night of … Read more
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 unfolds slowly about how the … Read more
Bronte Jane Eyre Jane Eyre lost her parents early and now she lived with her aunt, Mrs. Reed. Her life was not sugar. The fact is that Mrs. Reed was not her own aunt, but only a widow of her mother’s brother. About the parents of the girl, she was of the lowest opinion, and … Read more
JK Branner No one knows the night Teenagers Simon and Lydia were neighbors around the house in Copenhagen. The boys in the yard shouted that Lydia had a whore’s mother; Lidia teased and tore them, and she was beaten, and she fought back, and one day Simon, unable to stand it, rushed to the offenders, … Read more
Rodion Potapych Zykov – “the oldest steder” “in all the Balchugov goldfields” of the Urals. He directs the prospecting works on the Fotyanovskaya placer, which gave the treasury “more than a hundred poods of gold.” This placer was discovered by Andron Kishkin, the “old office clerk” with “small, curious, thieving” eyes. Zykov does not like … Read more
Sir Palem Granville Woodhouse KBE (English Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) is a popular English humorist writer, playwright, comediographer. Knight of the Order of the British Empire. Throughout his work, the works of the “king of comedy” Wodehouse enjoyed tremendous success, he was admired by many celebrities from Kipling … Read more
The illustrious Venetian adventurer, whose name became a household name, was a brilliant narrator; gradually he began to write down his stories; these records grew into memoirs. Like any true adventurer, Kazakova spends life on the road. Arriving one day in Constantinople, he meets the venerable philosopher Yusuf and the rich Turk Ismail. Admired by … Read more
All gathered this terrible body – the thirteenth, cancerous. Persecuted and persecuted, silent and vigorous, hard workers and money-grubbers – they collected and depersonalized everyone, all of them are now only seriously ill, torn from the habitual situation, rejected and rejected all the familiar and native. They do not have anybody else’s house, no life … Read more
My head plows with its ears, Like a bird with wings. She can not rest her legs on the neck anymore. S. A. Yesenin. Black man “Black Man” – one of the most mysterious, ambiguous and understandable works of Esenin. The poet began working in 1922, and basically it was written abroad, in February 1923 … Read more
The hero of the “underground”, the author of the notes, is a collegiate assessor who recently resigned after receiving a small inheritance. Now he is forty. He lives “in the corner” – a “crappy, nasty” room on the edge of Petersburg. In the “underground” he is psychologically: almost always alone, he is betrayed by an … Read more
The action takes place in the city of Messina in Sicily. The messenger informs the Governor Leonato about the arrival in the city after the victorious end of the war of Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, with his retinue. Talking about the battle, the messenger mentions distinguished on the battlefield the young noble Florentine Claudio. … Read more
The action takes place in Sweden, in the count’s, a manor in the kitchen on the night of Ivan Kupala, when, according to folk tradition, among all who celebrate this religious and magical holiday all the class boundaries are temporarily canceled. Christina, a cook of thirty-five years, is standing by the stove, preparing a potion … Read more
Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel The story of the exhilarating life of the great Gargantua, the father of Pantagruel, once composed by the master Alcobribas Nazier, who extracts the quintessence. A book full of pantagruelism Turning to the glorious drunkards and venerable Venus, the author invites them to have fun and have fun reading his … Read more
The play is based on genuine historical events – the unsuccessful trip to Africa of the Portuguese troops under the command of the infants Fernando and Enrique, who tried in vain to storm the city of Tangier in 1437. King Fetz wants to beat off the Portuguese city of Ceuta. Prince Taroudant promises to send … Read more
Chapter I Early autumn brings a lot of work to philistine gardeners. Those hired men – mainly for collecting apples, the smell of which fills the manors. On public holidays the burghers are engaged in brisk trade – they are selling their crops to white-headed boys, dressed-up girls, an important old age. In the evening, … Read more
In the zemstvo hospital for the absence of a doctor who went to get married, the reception of a paramedic Kuryatin is taking. He is a fat man of about forty, wearing a worn vest and worn trousers. He has an expression of duty and pleasure on his face, and a cigar in his hand … Read more
VA Kaverin Two captains Once in the city of Ensk, on the riverbank, a dead postman and a bag with letters were found. Aunt Dasha read each day aloud to her neighbors one letter each. Sanya Grigoryev especially remembered the line about distant polar expeditions… Sanya lives in Ensk with her parents and sister Sasha. … Read more
Andrei Sokolov Spring. Upper Don. The narrator and his friend rode on the carriage, harnessed by two horses, to the village of Bukanovskaya. It was difficult to drive – the snow began to melt, the dirt impassable. And here near the farm Mokhovskogo river Elanka. Shallow in summer, now spilled a full kilometer. Together with … Read more
Events take place in 1478 during the reign of Iann III, which assimilates the leveled principalities into a single power. Novgorodians do not want to part with these grand dukes freemen, do not agree to join their lands to Muscovy and decide to resist the numerous army of the sovereign. The sound of the bell … Read more
Joseph Conrad Lord Jim 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 … Read more
Engaged in the affairs of the sculptor Timofeev, Nastya does not have time to come to the dying mother. The old woman is escorted to the last path by strangers. The story was written in 1946. In this cold and rainy October Katerina Petrovna became even more difficult to get up in the morning. The … Read more
William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, or Anything The action of comedy takes place in a fairy-tale country for the English of Shakespeare’s time – Illyria. The Duke of Illyria Orsino is in love with the young Countess Olivia, but she is in mourning after the death of her brother and even does not accept the emissaries … Read more
Eugene Ionesco Bald singer Bourgeois English interior. English Evening. The English couple are Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The English clock beats seventeen English punches. Mrs. Smith says that it’s already nine o’clock. She lists everything they ate for dinner, and builds gastronomic plans for the future. She is going to buy Bulgarian yogurt, because it … Read more
FAMILY OF TARAS Opera in four acts (eight scenes) Libretto by SA Tsenin Characters: Taras Efrosinya, his wife Nastya, their daughter Stepan, their son Andrew, their son Antonina, wife of Andrey Pavlik, Komsomol member Nazar Grandfather Semyon, Forester Vasya, Komsomol member Vanya, Komsomol member 1st collective farmer 2nd collective farmer (headman) 1st Worker 2nd working … Read more
Turning to the crowd, V. Mayakovsky tries to explain why he carries his soul on a platter for dinner going years. Sticking unnecessary tears from the unshaven cheeks of the squares, he feels himself to be the last poet. He is ready to reveal to people their new souls – simple words, like mooing. V. … Read more
RICHARD WAGNER 1813-1883 Wagner is the largest foreign composer of the second half of the 19th century. With his work he completed the development of the German romantic opera and made a significant contribution to the history of the world’s musical art. The central place in Wagner’s heritage is occupied by operas (altogether there are … Read more
One fine evening, the equally fine executor, Ivan Dmitrievitch Chervyakov, sat in the second row of armchairs and looked through binoculars at the “Corneville Bells.” He looked and felt at the top of bliss. But suddenly. In stories, this is often “but suddenly.” The authors are right: life is so full of surprises! But suddenly … Read more
Vassa Borisovna Zheleznova, 42, the owner of the shipping company, a very wealthy and influential person, lives in her own house with her husband, Sergey Petrovich Zheleznov, 60, a former captain and brother, Prokhor Borisovich Khrapov, careless, drinking a man who collects all kinds of locks. In the house also live Natalia and Lyudmila – … Read more
ME Saltykov-Shchedrin Karas-idealist Carp-idealist – the hero of the fairy tale of the same name. Living in a quiet backwater, the dreams of the triumph of good over evil and even the possibility of petitioning Shchuk (who never saw him off) are blessed and cherished, that she has no right to eat others. He eats … Read more
Teacher of French literature, Thirty-Seven Humbert Humbert has an unusual attraction to very young girls from nine to fourteen years old. This novel-confession was written to them in prison, and the action takes place in the summer of 1947. Living in Paris, ten years before, was married, but his wife left him for the sake … Read more
Laurence Stern Life and opinions Tristram Shandy, gentleman At the beginning of the narrative, the narrator warns the reader that in his notes he will not adhere to any rules for creating a literary work, he will not observe the laws of the genre and adhere to the chronology. Tristram Shandy was born on November … Read more
At King Tref, Silvio, his only son and heir, the prince of Tartaglia, suddenly becomes very ill. The king is constantly in a state of agitation and oppression. The best doctors of the state invited by the king diagnosed him with the “deepest hypochondria” and unanimously admitted that he could not help him. The only … Read more
Enamored swineherd Henry convinces the Princess Henrietta to visit the lawn where the pigs graze and succeeds in a month, only telling her about a certain singing and playing a variety of musical instruments on his kettle, which, besides, is able to guess what dish to cook in the kitchen at any person. The daughters … Read more
In Greece, there were many myths about the exploits of individual heroes, but only four – about such exploits, to which heroes from different parts of the country united. The last was the Trojan War; penultimate – the campaign of the Seven against Thebes; before this – Kalidon’s hunt for a giant boar, headed by … Read more
The novel takes place at the end of the second decade of the 20th century. in one of the Latin American countries. In the evenings, under the shade of the portal of the Lord, beggars and cripples from all over the city are flocking, accustomed to spending the night on its cold stairs. This time … Read more
The most beloved hero of Greek myths was Hercules, a mighty toiler who saved the gods from destruction, and people from terrible monsters, but he did not make himself a kingdom or happiness. The Greeks composed songs about him first, then tragedies, then comedies. One of such comedies also reached us in the Latin processing … Read more
Venichka Erofeev travels from Moscow to the regional center near Moscow called Petushki. There lives a sweetheart hero, delightful and unique, to which he travels on Fridays, buying a bag of sweets “Cornflower” as a gift. Venichka Erofeev has already begun his wanderings. The day before, he had taken a glass of teeth, and then … Read more
“Almost all this happened in fact.” This phrase begins a novel, which, as it appears from the author’s warning, “is partly written in a slightly telegraph-schizophrenic style, as they write on the planet Tralfamador, from where the flying saucers appear.” The protagonist of the book, Billy Pilgrim, according to the narrator’s expression, “disconnected from time”, … Read more
Amazing journeys on land and sea, military campaigns and fun adventures of Baron von Munchausen, about which he usually tells for a bottle in the circle of his friends The time of the adventures described in the book of Baron Munchausen – the end of the XVIII century., During the plot the main character is … Read more
N. G. Pomyalovsky Essays of the bursa Huge dirty room of the school. Classes are over, and bursaks play games. Most recently, the “period of violent education” ended, when everyone, regardless of age, had to undergo a full course of science. Now the “law of overgrown age” began to operate: after reaching a certain age, … Read more
The last day before Christmas passed, and a clear starry night came. Through the trumpet of one house a witch on a broom rose and began to collect stars. And the devil at this time stole a month. He did it because he knew that today Chub was invited by a deacon on the kutu, … Read more
All the inhabitants of the village called Yegor Polushkin a poor man. Where the first two letters disappeared, no one remembered. Even Polushkin’s wife, Kharitina, called her husband “a non-human overseas” and “a devil’s poor creature.” Kharitin’s family was from Zaoneezhye, and her insults began from early childhood, when a drunken priest gave her this … Read more
Philippe Eria Family Bussardel The novel is a family chronicle with a sequel. The events described in the novel unfold in Paris in the 19th century. and begin with the fact that in 1815, after serving in the French National Guard, Florent Bussardel, the son of a recently deceased prominent customs official, returns to the … Read more
In the work – two story lines, each of which develops independently. The first action takes place in Moscow during several May days in the 30s. XX century, the action of the second is also in May, but in the city of Yershalaim almost two thousand years ago – at the very beginning of a … Read more
Almost one hundred and thirty years have passed since the Norman Duke William the Conqueror defeated the Anglo-Saxon armies and captured England at the Battle of Hastings. The English people are going through hard times. King Richard the Lionheart did not return from the last crusade, taken prisoner by the treacherous Duke of Austria. The … Read more
AN Ostrovsky Wolves and sheep In the morning at the house of Meropia Davydovna Murzavetskaya, “a girl of about sixty, who has great strength in the province”, assembled craftsmen – she owed them. Suitable Chugunov, a former member of the district court. Murzavets prudish and slanderous, Chugunov leads her affairs and manages the estate of … Read more