NV Gogol Old-world landowners Afanasy Ivanovich Tovstogub and his wife Pulcheria Ivanovna live alone in one of the remote villages, called Old Rus in the Little Russia. Their life is so quiet that a guest who has unexpectedly come to a low bar-house, drowning in the greenery of the garden, the passions and unsettling worries … Read more
“Sprut” is a work about life and struggle for farmers’ rights of the San Joaquin Valley, created on the basis of a real event – an armed clash between farmers and government officials in the county of Musselslaf in 1880. Poet Presley came from San Francisco to this fertile region, where immense fields of wheat … Read more
Julio Cortázar The game precedes the author’s instruction about the possible double reading of his work: one option is the sequential reading of fifty-six chapters forming the first two parts of the novel, disregarding the third, combining the “optional chapters”; another option is a whimsical order of movement according to the chapters in accordance with … Read more
“Thousand and One Nights” is a collection of fairy tales in Arabic, which became world famous thanks to the French translation of A. Gallan (incomplete, published from 1704 to 1717). The question of the origin and development of the “1001 Nights” has not been fully clarified to this day. Attempts to look for the ancestral … Read more
Spring flip-flops – a revolution in the minds of Dyushka – the main character of the narrative. Literally for one day the boy grew up and began to think about the meaning of life, about the transmigration of souls. The thirteen-year-old tried to solve the problem in mathematics, but she did not give in. At … Read more
The “seducer’s diary” is a part of the most famous book of the Danish philosopher and writer Seren Kierkegaard “Ili-Ili”, sometimes printed and separately, in the form of a novel. In the “Preface” to the book, her imaginary publisher Victor Eremita explains: the notes he publishes are found in the old office he bought on … Read more
Maxim Gorky Grandfather Arkhip and Lyonka While waiting for the ferry, the grandfather Arkhip and Lyonka lay in the shade from the shore cliff and looked at the waves of the Kuban River. Lyonka dozed off, and his grandfather, feeling a pain in his chest, could not fall asleep. Lyonka was small, fragile (he was … Read more
Sasha Sokolov Between a dog and a wolf In the summer from the invention of a pin, five hundred and forty-first, when the month is clear, and you can not keep track of the numbers, Ilya Petrikeevich Dzyzyrila writes to the investigator for special affairs Sidor Fomich the Elder about his life. He complains about … Read more
Pio Baroque Scarlet Dawn The novel takes place in the twenties. On the outskirts of Madrid, which is adjacent to several urban cemeteries, live Manuel Alcazar with the widowed sister Ignacia and settled with them Salvador with a young brother Enrique. Manuel works as a typewriter in the printing house, El Salvador works in the … Read more
The novel begins with an appeal to the reader from the last chronicler-archivist. Then follows the story of how the Foolovites settled down. Previously, they were dumbheads, because they had a habit of treading on their heads with everything that comes in their way. Once they decided to call on the kingdom of a wise … Read more