On the first Monday of April 1625, the population of the town of Meng in the suburbs of Paris seemed to be agitated as if the Huguenots had decided to turn it into the second fortress of La Rochelle: a young man of eighteen entered the Meng, wearing a red gelding without a tail. His … Read more
It happened once to a certain Zhang Yu to drive past Lishan Mountain. He remembered the story of the sovereign Xuanzong, the beauty of Yang Taichren and the commander An Lushane. By himself, he developed poetry, He spent the night at the farmstead. Somehow vaguely felt in my heart. Hardly dozed off, two envoys appeared … Read more
Strange adventures have occurred with a young scientist named Christian-Theodore, who came to a small southern country to study history. He settled in a hotel, in a room where the storyteller Hans Christian Andersen lived before him. The master’s daughter Annunziata tells him about the extraordinary testament of the last local king. In it, he … Read more
The novel describes the events of the Patriotic War with Napoleon in 1812. In the center of the narrative is the family of Count Rostov. Volume One The book begins in the summer of 1805 in St. Petersburg. At the evening, the maid of honor Scherer is present among other guests Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate … Read more
Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea The novel is based on the principle of diary entries of the main character Antoine Roquantin, who traveled Central Europe, North Africa, the Far East and for three years already settled in the city of Buleville to complete his historical research on the Marquise de Roelbon, who lived in the XVIII century. … Read more
Summer is in full swing. The forest is ringing with songs. They say threes, thrifts. Early in the morning, the deaf “u-du-doo” of the crested hoopoe is heard. At the top of the tree loudly cooed turtledoves. Above the rain-washed glades the forest skates ring among themselves, the song of the green-eyed girl rasps. In … Read more
March 1865 In the United States during the Civil War, five brave Northmen flee from the southerly Richmond in a balloon. A terrible storm throws out four of them to the shore of an uninhabited island in the Southern Hemisphere. The fifth man and his dog are hiding in the sea near the shore. This … Read more
By the middle of the 14th century, a new philosophical trend was emerging in Europe – humanism, which marked a new era in the development of human society called the Renaissance. Medieval Europe in those days was under a heavy burden of church prejudice, every free thought was brutally suppressed. It was at that time … Read more
(1836 – 1861) Dobrolyubov Nikolai Alexandrovich (1836-1861). Russian publicist, literary critic, poet, revolutionary democrat. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Dobrolyubov was born on February 5 (in the old style – January 24) in 1836 in the family of a very wealthy priest, in Nizhny Novgorod. Nikolai Dobrolyubov had only a boundless attachment to his mother – kind, friendly, … Read more
It is difficult to imagine that in comparison with the real dimensions of the Earth on this model – a globe with a diameter of 1 m – the dimensions of the highest mountain systems and the deepest depressions would not exceed 1 mm. And the ego with the fact that the real maximum elevation … Read more