Moscow, the beginning of the reign of Alexander II. The action begins with the exit to the richly decorated hall of the old and very important official Aristarkh Vladimirovich Vyshnevsky. He is accompanied by
KG Paustovsky Romantic Maksimov with Stashevsky, Alexei and Winkler was driven into this port by a cruel autumn storm. Young people lived in a crappy hotel, stuffed with sailors and prostitutes, spending time in
On the dusty road among the maize fields of Oklahoma is a man of about thirty. This is Tom Jowd. After serving time in prison for an accidental murder, he returns home to the
The author-narrator remembers the recent past. He recalled the early weathering autumn, the entire golden, dried up and thinned garden, the delicate aroma of fallen leaves and the smell of Antonov apples: the gardeners
Spacious and comfortable kitchen. There is no one, only at the burning hearth warms the Cat. A tired passer-by comes in the house. This is Lancelot. He calls someone from the hosts, but there
One quiet, clear evening, the boys and girls gathered to sing songs. Levko, the son of a village head, drags a song near one of the huts, calling a beautiful girl named Ganna. Ganna
G. de Broin Buridanov donkey Karl Erp, head of the district library in Berlin, the capital of the GDR, a forty-year-old family man with a nascent abdomen, wakes up in his room with a
There is a myth about the hero Jason, the leader of the Argonauts. He was the hereditary king of the city of Iolc in Northern Greece, but his elder relative, the powerful Pelius, seized
Some American millionaire, whose name no one has remembered and whom the author calls “the gentleman from San Francisco”, is making a trip on a luxurious, steamy boat “Atlantis” to Europe. The companions of
Emile Zola Doctor Pascal Doctor Pascal is a sixty-year-old scientist, an innovator, out of his pen goes medical works. He is engaged in healing, using his own methods and giving hope to the sick.