In the club of a large industrial city – sold-out. The hall is packed full, people are standing in the aisles. The event is uncommon: a novel by a young local writer has been
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Among the main gods, the Egyptians especially singled out a married couple – Osiris and Isis. Osiris was revered for teaching the Egyptians various crafts, treatment, showing how to build cities and houses, to
Saul Bellow Duke Fifty-year-old professor of history and literature Moses Herzog wrote letters, wrote decisively to everyone in the world – people personally familiar and unfamiliar, living and deceased, relatives of former and existing,
The action takes place in the 1850s. On the Texas prairie there are vans going – it’s moving from Louisiana to Texas, the ruined planter Woodley Poindexter. He is accompanied by Henry’s son, daughter
It was a long time ago, maybe forty years ago. In the early autumn, I returned from fishing on a mown meadow and near a small, dried-up boschazhina, overgrown with a tamnik, over a
The action takes place in London, at the end of the XIX century Mr. Utterson, a notary, was a self-contained man, taciturn and awkward in society, and yet very sympathetic. He was strict with
Lucian Icaromenipp, go Zaoblachny flight Menippus tells the Friend about his extraordinary journey, striking the interlocutor with precise data on the distance from the Earth to the Moon, to the Sun and finally to
Yu. G. O’Neill The Moon for the stepsons of fate Events take us to Connecticut, the farmer’s house, Phil Hohen. The action takes place in early September 1923 and at the dawn of the
The tragedy takes place in the Netherlands, in Brussels, in 1567-1568, although in the play the events of these years unfold in a few weeks. In the city square, the townspeople compete in archery,