The action takes place in 1960-1961. in the GDR. The main character, Rita Seidel, a student who worked during the vacations at the car building plant, lies in the hospital after she almost fell under the carriages that were maneuvering on the tracks. Later it turns out that this was an attempt at suicide. In … Read more
In Madrid, Casade Campo, the favorite park of the townspeople, don Juan Carlos and his servant Mosquito await twilight. They can not appear in the city during the day: two months ago, Don Carlos killed a noble caballero Alonso, the son of Don Diego and the brother of Lysard, in which Don Carlos was unrequitedly … Read more
The central character of the novel Diederich Gesling was born in a German family of the middle bourgeois, the owner of a paper mill in the city of Netzig. As a child, he was often sick, he was afraid of everything and especially of his father. His mother, Frau Gasling, also lives in awe of … Read more
There are three story lines in the novel: the first is a narrative, which is conducted on behalf of the angel Agasphere, whose name means “Beloved of God”; 2 nd – a story about the life path of Paulus von Eichen, a younger contemporary of Martin Luther; 3rd – correspondence between Professor Siegfried Baifus, Director … Read more
An accidental shot from a naval gun made by the English lieutenant Bailey Land prevented the capture of the Crimea by units of the Red Army in 1920. And now, during the reign of Brezhnev, the Crimea turned into a prosperous democratic state. Russian capitalism has proved superior to Soviet socialism. Impressive Impressive Simferopol, stylish … Read more
IS Turgenev Breakfast at the head of the dining room. Morning. A set table with a snack. The action takes place in the estate of the leader of the local nobility. Nikolai Ivanovich Balagolayev invited one of his neighbors, a judge and a former leader in the morning, to resolve the dispute between Kaurova, the … Read more
“Epic poem” – according to the author’s review, and in fact – a novel in verse, “Don Giovanni” – the most important and most ambitious work of the late stage of Byron’s creativity, the subject of constant reflection of the poet and fierce polemic of criticism. Like “Eugene Onegin,” the masterpiece of the late Byron … Read more
“You can call me Jonah” – such a phrase opens a novel. The hero-narrator believes that this name is much more suitable for him than the one given at birth, for he “always somewhere brings”. One day he planned to write a book “The Day the End of the World Comes.” In it, he was … Read more
The action takes place in the village Fires collective farm “The power of labor.” The people gather near the house of the dying chairman. Evlampiy Nikitich Lykov was famous not only in the region, but also in the country. Everyone understands that changes are coming, and they remember those thirty years that Lykov headed the … Read more
In 1940, a famous fairy tale by V. Kataev appeared, “Tsvetik-Semitsvetik”, a brief summary for which the reader’s diary is offered to read. It’s about how the usual girl Zhenya had to make a difficult choice: to wish for something for herself or to help another person. Harmful dog One day my mother sent Zhenya … Read more
M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin Wise pisarer There was a “enlightened, moderately liberal” pisar. Smart parents, dying, left him to live, looking at both. Piskar realized that he was in trouble from everywhere: from big fish, from piscid neighbors, from a man (his own father was one day almost cooked in his ear). Piskar built a hole … Read more
In three hours’ walk to the north-west of the port city of Corsica, Porto-Vecchio, there are extensive thickets of poppies – the habitat of shepherds and robbers. Formed by seven to eight foot thickets of trees that survived the burning out of the forest, they are impassable not only for humans, but also for mouflons … Read more
During the sermon of the Buddha, one of the holy arhats surrendered to vain dreams. For this, the infernal torments were relied upon, but the Buddha mercifully sent the offender to the earth, that he be reborn in human form. Now his name is Liu Junzu, he is unstable in faith, can deviate from the … Read more
Tyulin – the hero of the story, the carrier on the river Vetluga. He has a youthful face, “almost without a beard and mustache, with expressive features,” a bassy chest voice, “slightly hoarse, as if from a strong hangover,” but there are “notes as direct and naive as this church, and this one pillar, and … Read more
Summary of the “Student” Chekhov. Start The narrative is conducted on the eve of the great Easter holiday. The story begins with a description of weather conditions and a dreary landscape. The weather was at first quiet and calm, but towards the night a cold wind blew through the puddles, puddles were covered with a … Read more
England, the XVIII century. The family of pastor Charles Primrose enjoys a serene existence “in a beautiful house amidst the picturesque nature”. The main treasure of the Primroses are six wonderful children: “sons are good fellows, dexterous and full of courage, two daughters are blooming beauties.” The eldest son, George, studied in Oxford, the middle, … Read more
NS Leskov The man on the clock The winter in Petersburg in 1839 was with strong thaws. Sentry Postnikov, a soldier of the Izmaylovo Regiment, stood at his post. He heard that a man came to the wormwood and called for help. The soldier for a long time did not dare to leave his post, … Read more
The tragedy opens with three introductory texts. The first is a lyrical dedication to friends of youth – those with whom the author was associated in the beginning of work on “Faust” and who has already died or is in the distance. “I again remember everyone who lived that radiant at noon”. Then follows “Theatrical … Read more
Four players play in the “screw” three times a week: Evpraksiya Vasilyevna with his brother Prokopy Vasilievich against Maslennikov and Yakov Ivanovich. Yakov Ivanovich and Maslennikov absolutely do not approach each other as partners: the thin old man Yakov Ivanovich is extraordinarily cautious and pedantic, he never takes risks, unlike the hot and enthusiastic Maslennikov. … Read more
FM Dostoyevsky Notes from the underground 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 … Read more
Folklore motifs in Lermontov’s creative work occupy a special niche, although they are not often spoken about. However, in his main poem dedicated to the Russian Federation, Lermontov most “dear heart” calls just the people’s Russia, with its uneasy, harsh, but truly Russian way of life. To the old times and people’s rites Lermontov had … Read more
English engineer William Perry, generously rewarded by the Russian Tsar Peter for diligence in arranging locks on the Voronezh River, with a letter calling his brother Bertrand to Russia for the execution of a new tsar’s plan – the creation of a continuous navigable passage between Don and Oko. There are big sluice and channel … Read more
Book One Part one I The author tells how among the Don Cossacks in the Tatarsky farm appeared a kind of Melekhovs, nicknamed the Turks. This family went from Prokofiy Melekhov, who started a Turkish wife. The locals recognized her as a witch and tried to kill her. Dying, the woman gave birth to a … Read more
The hero of the novel is Fyodor Konstantinovich Godunov-Cherdyntsev, the Russian emigre, the son of the famous entomologist, the son of an aristocratic family-is suffering in Berlin in the second half of the 1920s. earning private lessons and publishing in Russian newspapers nostalgic twelve about childhood in Russia. He feels a huge literary potential, he … Read more
On the Epiphany evening, the girls would guess: taking off her slipper, they threw him at the gate. So they tried to find out their fate, to guess the betrothed. And only Svetlana among the merry girls is sad and silent, only she does not guess and does not sing. Darling has gone far, a … Read more
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 the shore of Lake Ontario. They keep the path … Read more
The year 1910. Leo Tolstoy died. The teacher of the literature of the Odessa Gymnasium Vasily Petrovich Bachey is hotly arguing with the sister of his late wife Tatyana Ivanovna about the attitude of the tsarist government to the great writer. He decides to read the report on Tolstoy, in which he will tell about … Read more
Prince Vladimir has a feast with a mountain. Princes, boyars and heroes, having been fed up and drunk, are boasting before each other: some – wealth, others – force, merchants – goods, boyars – estates and fiefdoms. Danila Denisievich does not boast alone. Prince Vladimir asks him whether he is silent because he has nothing … Read more
Kurt Vonnegut Cradle for a cat “You can call me Iona” – such a phrase opens a novel. The hero-narrator believes that this name is much more suitable for him than the one given at birth, for he “always somewhere brings”. One day he planned to write a book “The Day the End of the … Read more
In the city of T. on the shabby and dirty Rasteriaev street there live many poor people: petty 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 make Prohor’s life easier. Glafira, … Read more
The “Great Bharat” is an ancient Indian epic consisting of approximately one hundred thousand couplets-schloks, divided into 18 books, and includes many false episodes, one way or another related to the main narrative. In the city of Hastinapur, the capital of the country of Bharat, the mighty sovereign Pandu reigned. By the curse of a … Read more
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Comic opera in four acts (five scenes) Libretto by A. Gozenpud Characters: Petruccio, a nobleman from Verona Baptista Manola, rich merchant Baritone Bass Katharina Bianca } His daughter Soprano Soprano Lucentio Hortensio } Lovers in Bianca Tenor Bass Gromio Curtis } Servants of Petruccio Bass Tenor Biondello, Baptist servant Tailor … Read more
A young woman complains to the kuma that her elderly husband is not able to extinguish the flame of her love passion. Kuma advises her to seek solace on the side and have a lover. Their conversation is eavesdropped by a monk, Brother Gilbert, a libertine and voluptuary. He offers the old man’s wife his … Read more
Charles Perrault Cinderella The new wife of the respectable man disliked his kind and beautiful daughter. Father girl stepmother kept under his heel, so Cinderella, for which there was no one to intercede, was with the evil woman and her two daughters as a servant, and spent all her free time on the ash box. … Read more
One day in August a person goes on a three-day vacation to replenish his collection of insects with rare species found in the sands. He gets on the train to station S, transits to the bus and, getting off at the last stop, goes on foot. He passes the village and goes by the sandy … Read more
Terkin is killed in battle. It’s clean, it looks like a subway. The commandant orders Terkin to get formalized. Account table, check table, table. At Turkin they demand a certificate, they require a photo card, a certificate from a doctor. Terkin undergoes medical treatment. Everywhere pointers, inscriptions, tables. There are no complaints here. The editor … Read more
Erotic-allegorical poem in honor of Krishna – Govinda, the earthly incarnation of the god Vishnu In the blossoming spring time in the Vrndavana forest on the bank of the Yamuna, Krishna Radha’s lover is languishing in separation from her beloved. The friend tells that Krishna leads cheerful round dances with charming cowherd boys, “hugs one, … Read more
EUGENE ONEGIN Lyrical scenes in three acts (seven scenes) Libretto by PI Tchaikovsky and KS Shilovsky Characters: Larin, the landowner Mezzo soprano Tatyana Olga } Her daughters Soprano Contralto Filippievna, the nurse Eugene Onegin Lensky Prince Gremin Rotum Zaretsky Trick, the Frenchman Guillot, Onegin’s valet Mezzo soprano Baritone Tenor Bass Bass Bass Tenor Without speeches … Read more
Part one “Evenings…”, consisting of 8 stories, are divided into exactly 2 parts, and each is preceded by a preface of the imaginary publisher. In the first, describing his farm, he gives the characteristics of some particularly colorful inhabitants of Dikanka that they woo in the evenings in the “Pasichnikov hovel” and tell those strange … Read more
King Demyan lived in a certain kingdom. He had three sons: Clim, Peter and Ivan. In the beautiful garden of the king grew an apple tree with golden apples. And suddenly there was a defect in apples. The king called his sons to him and ordered him to catch the thief, and as a reward … Read more
At the beginning of the fairy tale, we get to know eleven of the royal princes and the little princess, who are the children of the king. The king’s wife died, and he married a new woman. My stepmother did not like her stepchildren and stepdaughter very much. With the help of witchcraft, her stepmother … Read more
The novel, consisting of three novels, refers to the time of the economic depression of the 1930s. Florida fisherman Harry Morgan from Key West makes a living by giving his motorboat to various rich people who came here to fish. They hire a boat together with the owner – he knows well where the biting … Read more
Peace is not for Robinson, he hardly hangs out in England for several years: thoughts about the island are haunted him day and night. His wife’s age and sensible speeches keep him for the time being. He even buys a farm, intends to engage in rural labor, to which he is so accustomed. The death … Read more
G. von Kleist Michael Kolhaas The action dates back to the middle of the 16th century, to the period of the Reformation. Michael Kolhaas, the protagonist of the story, earns a living by breeding and selling horses. It is a simple and just man, highly appreciating his honor and dignity. Once he goes to Leipzig … Read more
In his palace sat the formidable Khan Girey, angry and sad. What is sad about Girey, what is he thinking about? He does not think about the war with Russia, he is not afraid of the machinations of enemies, and his wives are loyal to him, they are guarded by a faithful and evil eunuch. … Read more
A few years ago, the king and the queen lived, and every day they said: -Oh, if we had a child! But they did not have any children and were not. One day it happened that the queen was sitting in a bath and a frog came out of the water and told her: – … Read more
Two young people – a medical student Busygin and a sales agent Semyon, nicknamed Silva – priodararili for unfamiliar girls. Passing those to the house, but not meeting the further hospitality, which they counted on, they find that they were late for the train. The time later, on the street is cold, and they are … Read more
AA Kim Nightingale echo On a rainy summer night in 1912, on one of the docks of the Amur, the steamer leaves a young man alone. This is the German Otto Meisner, master of philosophy, a pet at the University of Konigsberg. The vague feeling that he once was here is stored in his soul. … Read more
The foreword to the author’s text is a fragment from the book of the Greek historian Appian Alexandrian “Syrian Wars”. The events described in the play date from the middle of the second century. BC. E., when the kingdom of the Seleucids was attacked by the Parthians. The prehistory of the dynastic conflict is set … Read more
Thought to start the diary came to Chelkatourine on March 20. The doctor admitted finally that he had to live for two weeks. Soon the rivers will burst. Together with the last snow they will take away his life. Who can tell his gloomy thoughts at the last hour? Only the old and the near … Read more