The main character lived in the village of Lamanchsky, his property was small – a spear, a shield, an old horse and a dog. His name was Kehan. The age of the hero was approaching fifty years. He was fond of reading knightly novels and gradually introduced himself as a traveling knight. He polished his … Read more
Julia Lambert is the best actress in England. She is forty-six years old; she is beautiful, rich, famous; busy with the favorite thing in the most favorable conditions for this, that is, playing in your own theater; her marriage is considered ideal; she has an adult son… Thomas Fennel is a young accountant hired by … Read more
Peru, the famous writer of the twentieth century, Herbert Wells, owns many works, including the novel Invisible Man. Characters of the novel: Griffin is a scientist and protagonist of the narrative, Dr. Kemp, vagabond Marvel. The work begins with the description of the tavern Kucher and horses, owned by Mrs. Hall and her henpecked husband. … Read more
Six-year-old girl Nadia is ill, according to Dr. Mikhail Petrovich, “indifference to life.” The only way to cure it is to cheer. But the girl does not want anything and every day becomes weaker. So she lies whole days and whole nights, quiet, sad. Sometimes she sleeps for half an hour, but in a dream … Read more
Characters. Mikhailo Ivanovich Moshkin, 50 years old. lively, busy, good-natured. Pyotr Ilyich Vilitsky, 23 years old. indecisive, weak, self-interested man. Rodion Karlovich von Funk, 29 years old. Cold, dry creature. Philip Yegorovich Shpundik, landowner of 45 years. with claims of education. Marya Vasilievna Belova, an orphan who lives near Moshkin, is 19 years old. Ekaterina … Read more
THE FLYING HOLLANDER (MARIYAK-SKITALETS) Romantic opera in three acts R. Wagner’s libretto Characters: Dutchman Daland, Norwegian sailor Senta, his daughter Eric, the hunter Mary, the nurse of Senta Helicopter ship Dalanda Baritone Bass Soprano Tenor Mezzo soprano Tenor Norwegian sailors, the crew of the Flying Dutchman, the girl. The action takes place on the Norwegian … Read more
The action takes place in our city today. A room in the style of the fifties. Evening tea. In the chair Valentina’s grandmother, next to Valina’s mother, near the mirror – Zhenya, the elder sister. Waiting for Valya. Mother is indignant. It seems to her that Valya is too dissolute: in the metro she went … Read more
Childhood and youth of Alexander Ryzhov В царствование Екатерины II, в городке Солигалич, Костромской губернии в семье мелкого канцелярского служителя Рыжова родился сын Алексашка. Потеряв в малолетнем возрасте отца, воспитывался матерью, продававшей на рынке пироги собственного изготовления. Грамоте мальчик выучился у бедного дьяка. И тогда уже стал зарабатывать свои первые копейки тем, что писал старухам … Read more
Mrs. Elspeth McGillicady, a middle-aged woman tired of Christmas shopping in London, sits down on the train at Paddington Station, flips through the magazine and falls asleep. Half an hour later she wakes up. It’s dark outside the window. The train crashes with a crash. Then, for a while, along the neighboring rails in the … Read more
When the narrator, old Thomas, was still small, an unusual story happened to his grandfather. He claims that evil forces will freeze anyone. Here’s how it happened. My father went to the Crimea to sell tobacco. Grandfather and Foma went to live on a shovel (a piece of land), where watermelons, melons and various vegetables … Read more
Katerina Lvovna, “outwardly a very pleasant woman,” lives in the prosperous house of the merchant Izmailov with widowed father-in-law Boris Timofeevich and the elderly husband Zinovy Borisovich. There are no children for Katerina Lvovna, and “with all the contentment” her life “for an unskilful husband” is the most boring. On the sixth year of marriage … Read more
The time of events refers to the twelfth century. The 12th century is the period of the crusades to the south of Europe and Asia. In one of the biggest battles, the crusaders suffer a complete defeat. Many of the knights are captured by the Arab Sultan Saladin. Most of the knights are executed, but … Read more
Preparations for departure to the capital begins the third part of the trilogy. The main character – Kartashev’s theme is full of dreams about how he “will become serious, will be engaged, will be a scientist”, and for his loved ones this is a time of regrets about that ideal theme they wanted to see … Read more
Herzen’s book begins with the stories of his nurse about the troubles of the Herzen family in Moscow in 1812, occupied by the French; ends with European impressions of 1865-1868. Actually, memories in the exact sense of the word “Past and thoughts” can not be called: a consistent narrative is, I think, found only in … Read more
Venedikt Erofeev was born in the village of Niva-2 (suburb of Kandalaksha). Father – the head of the railway station, repressed and serving a prison sentence in 1939-1954. According to other sources, Venedikt Erofeev’s father voluntarily went north as a settler, on conditions of preferential travel, large lifts, with free housing [the source is not … Read more
The action takes place in a taiga district center in the early summer morning. Valentina, a slender, pretty girl of about eighteen, goes to the teahouse where she works, and on the way she looks around the front garden in front of the house: again the boards are taken out of the fence, the gate … Read more
To Robert and Fred Kaplen in Chantbari Kloe came friends and relatives for dinner. Among the invited married couple are Gordon and Betty Whitehouse, an employee of the publishing house Oluen Peel, one of the newly appointed directors of this English publishing house Charles Trevor Stanton, and finally the writer Maud Mokridge. While the men … Read more
The watchdog was not tall, but squat and broad-chested. Thanks to the long, slightly curly wool, there was a distant resemblance to a white poodle, but only with a poodle, which was never touched by soap, comb or scissors. In the summer he constantly ran from head to end of the tail with spiny “thongs”, … Read more
Apollodorus and his friend Apollodorus, at the request of a friend at a meeting with him, talks about a feast at Agathon, where Socrates, Alcibiades and others were and talked about love. It was a long time ago, Apollodorus himself was not present there, but learned about the conversations of those from Aristodem. On that … Read more
NA Ostrovsky How the Steel Was Tempered The autobiographical novel of Nikolai Ostrovsky is divided into two parts, each of which contains nine chapters: childhood, adolescence and adolescence; then mature years and illness. For an unworthy act (poured the priest to the dough in the dough) the cook’s son Pavk Korchagin is expelled from the … Read more
The story begins like this: “I was brought to the hospital with typhoid fever.” The hero got “some special hospital,” where he did not like everything. For example, I did not like that the patient was “brought, wrote it in a book, and suddenly he reads on the wall a poster:” The extinction of corpses … Read more
D’Artagnan, in response to the inquiries of de Bragelon about what was happening in Paris in his absence, is indignant: “Do you really want me to instill disgust at your dear and teach you to curse the women, which is the happiness of our life?” A friend of Louise Ora Montale sends Raul for all … Read more
The action of the play from beginning to end takes place in the solemn atmosphere of the Trondheim cathedral in Nidaros, the medieval capital of Norway. On the sides of the scene – funerary niches, in the center – the tomb of Harald, the grandfather of the ruling king Hakon Shirokoplechego. The closest to the … Read more
For the first time we get to know the heroes in March 1848 in the Californian Sierra, when they almost die of starvation, as they have long since lost their way into a snowstorm and set up camp in some canyon. Two of them, Philip Ashley, a young man of uncommon mind and solid character, … Read more
KD Syamak The Choice of the Gods The main events of the novel unfold on the American continent in the eighth millennium of our era. On Earth live a few tribes of Indians, several thousand robots, created at the beginning of the third millennium, and two elderly people – Jason Whitney and his wife Martha. … Read more
The book is opened with a short copyright notice that after the death of Joaquin Monegro in his papers were found notes, something like “Confessions”, addressed to the daughter of the deceased. Some of these notes illustrate the story told by the author. Abel Sanchez and Joaquin Monegro grew up together from infancy, from the … Read more
The action takes place in the provincial town, in the house of the Prozorovs. Irina, the youngest of the three sisters of the Prozorovs, is twenty years old. “It’s sunny and fun in the yard,” and a table is set in the hall, waiting for the guests-officers of the artillery battery quartered in the city … Read more
“Cincinnatus Ts. Announced the death sentence in a whisper.” He was not forgiven for “impenetrability”, “opacity” Unforgivable Cincinnatus wine – in it for the rest, to the horror of the like (the jailor Rodion now and then turns into the director of the prison, Rodrig Ivanovich, and vice versa, the lawyer and the prosecutor by … Read more
AK Tolstoy Death of Ivan the Terrible. The action takes place in Moscow in 1584 and begins with a quarrel in the Boyar Duma: Mikhail Nagoy, brother of Queen Maria Feodorovna, argues for a place with Saltykov and draws other boyars into a match. Zakharin-Yuryev, the brother of the first tsareva wife, interrupts the debate … Read more
Two landlords, honorable people, well-intentioned, respected. One of them was retired Major-General Vyacheslav Illarionovich Khvalynsky. A tall, once slender, he is a little aged and flabby, but still “stands briskly, laughs sonorous, jingles his spurs, twists his mustache.” He has some oddities. Talking “with the nobles not rich or not,” he somehow looks at them … Read more
G. H. Andersen Nightingale Behind the garden of the Chinese emperor was a forest, and in the woods there lived a nightingale who sang so well that even a poor fisherman forgot about his seine, but then again took up his business and did not think about the nightingale until the next night. Travelers said … Read more
KG Paustovsky Cat of the thief We came in despair. We did not know how to catch this red cat. He robbed us every night. He was so cleverly hiding that none of us really saw him. Only a week later, it was finally possible to establish that the cat had a ruptured ear and … Read more
Charles Dickens Cold House Childhood Esther Summerston takes place in Windsor, in her godmother’s house, Miss Barberi. The girl feels lonely and often sentences, addressing her best friend, a ruddy doll: “You know perfectly well, doll, that I’m stupid, so be kind, do not be angry with me.” Esther seeks to learn the secret of … Read more
The protagonist of the narrative – Private Robert Lee Pruit – was born and spent his childhood in the mines in Garlan village, which in the thirties became known throughout America thanks to a strike of miners brutally suppressed by the police. In this strike the father of the hero was wounded and imprisoned, and … Read more
The theme of the last war always found and continues to find its reflection in modern poetry, and every poet in his own way comprehends and experiences it, giving birth to images in which his own ideas of the war were embodied. Rasul Gamzatov also devoted a lot of lines to the military theme. One … Read more
Beginning of the story of how God gave the victory to the Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich for the Don over the perverse Mamai and how the Orthodox Christianity praised the Russian land as the prayers of the most holy Virgin Mary and Russian miracle workers. The godland elevated the Russian land, and disgraced the Hagarians. … Read more
In one village, near the Bludov Marsh, near the city of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, two children were orphaned. Their mother died of illness, his father died in the Patriotic War. In the village, the children were helped as best they could. Nastya was often compared to the Golden Chicken, and Mitrasha was called the Muzhik in a … Read more
Alexander Green Scarlet Sails Longren, a man reserved and unsociable, lived by making and selling models of sailboats and steamships. The countrymen did not really like the former sailor, especially after one incident. Somehow during a cruel storm, the shopkeeper and innkeeper Menners was carried away in his boat far into the sea. The only … Read more
L. N. Tolstoy Morning of the landlord Prince Nekhlyudov was nineteen years old when, from the third year of university, he came to summer vacations to his village and one stayed there all summer. In the autumn he wrote to his aunt, Countess Beloretskaya, who, in his opinion, was his best friend and the most … Read more
GI Uspensky Morals Rasteryaevoy Street In the city of T. on the squalid and dirty Rasteriaev street there are many poor people: small officials, petty bourgeois, craftsmen. Among them – a young pistol master Prokhor Porfirych. He is “of the noble”: the illegitimate son of a master, a police official. But the origin did not … Read more
Mom was going to drink a cold with a cup of tea. An old man looked in, and always had a fairy tale ready for him. When a fairy tale came to the old man suddenly, branches of an elder stood out from under the lid of the kettle, and from them a tender old … Read more
In the early spring of 1888, Dr. Watson invites Sherlock Holmes to a walk in the park. Upon their return to Baker Street, they learn from the footman boy that they were visited by a very nervous gentleman who, having waited a while for Holmes, left the house, promising to return soon. The nervous visitor … Read more
F. Durrenmatt Visit of the old lady The action takes place in the provincial Swiss town of Güllen in the 50’s. XX century. In the town comes the old multimillionaire Clara Tsakhanassyan, a nee Vesher, a former resident of Gullen. At one time several industrial enterprises worked in the town, but one by one they … Read more
Friedrich Schiller Wilhelm Tell The play takes place in three “forest cantons” – Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden, which, united in 1291, formed the basis of the Swiss Union in the struggle against the Austrian domination of the Habsburgs. It is hard for ordinary people who suffer from arbitrariness of the governors of the Austrian emperor … Read more
AI Kuprin Sulamith The main characters of the story are the king of Persia Solomon and his beloved Sulamith. The story consists of twelve parts. The first part depicts before the reader Persia during the reign of Solomon, tells of Solomon and his deeds. The king was about forty-five years old, when the fame of … Read more
Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov (Kirghiz Chynyz Torekulovich Aitmatov) (December 12, 1928, Sheker, Kirghizia – June 10, 2008, Nuremberg, Germany) is a Kyrgyz Soviet writer who wrote in Kyrgyz and Russian languages, the People’s writer of the Kirghiz SSR (1974), Hero of the Socialist Labor (1978). Member of the CPSU since 1959. He was born in 1928 … Read more
The life of Baden-Baden, a fashionable German resort, on August 10, 1862, differed little from life on other days of the season. The audience was cheerful and colorful. However, it was not difficult to single out our compatriots in it, especially near the “Russian tree”. It was here, at Weber’s coffeehouse, Litvinov’s Moscow acquaintance Bambaev … Read more
Gustave Flaubert Mrs. Bovary 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 … Read more
AI Kuprin Duel Returning from the parade ground, Second Lieutenant Romashov thought: “Today I will not go: you can not bore people every day.” Every day he stayed at the Nikolaevs until midnight, but on the evening of the next day he again went to this cozy house. “You came from the mistress of the … Read more
In 1811, Mr.. lived in his estate with his wife and daughter Masha Gavrilovich R. He was hospitable, and many enjoyed his hospitality, and some came for Marya Gavrilovna. But Marya Gavrilovna was in love with the poor army ensign named Vladimir, who was on holiday in his village next door. Young lovers, believing that … Read more