On January 29, 1873, the Pilgrim schooner-brig, equipped for whaling, sailed from the port of Oakland, New Zealand. On board are the brave and experienced captain Gul, five experienced sailors, a fifteen-year-old junior sailor - an orphan Dick Send, the ship's Negoro ship, as well as the owner’s wife ...

Candide, a pure and sincere young man, is brought up in a poor castle of a poor, but vain Westphalian baron with his son and daughter. Their home teacher, Dr. Pangloss, a homegrown metaphysical philosopher, taught the children that they live in the best of worlds, where everything has a cause and effect, and events strive ...

: A poor woman loses a diamond necklace borrowed from a rich friend, buys her the same one, lives in poverty for ten years, paying off debt, and then finds out that the stones in the necklace were fake. Elegant and charming Matilda was the daughter of a poor official. She had no chance to get out ...

Part One For the first time, this “long, phosphorescent, spindle-shaped object” of enormous size was seen by sailors in 1866. He moved incredibly fast and spewed a powerful stream of water into the air. Scientists considered the subject a huge sea monster, and journalists and cartoonists turned it into a popular ...

: 19th century. The Englishman goes around the earth for a dispute in 80 days, simultaneously rescues the Indian beauty, fights with the Indians and crosses the ocean on a stolen boat, not suspecting that he is being pursued by a detective. Division into chapters is conditional. London, England Phileas Fogg was a mysterious person. Nobody knew, ...

The novel begins with a dedication to the year two thousand four hundred and fortieth. In advance notice, the author reports that his goal is universal prosperity. The hero (he is the author) of the novel, tired of a long conversation with an old Englishman, who sharply condemns French manners and orders, falls asleep and wakes up at ...

: Italy of the 19th century. An aristocrat falls in love with an ardent young revolutionary who has escaped from prison. Their feelings are mutual, but the young man has to make a choice between love and duty to the Motherland. In the spring evening of 182 ... the banker, Duke de B. gave a ball to which the most beautiful women of Rome were invited. The queen ...

The queen, the wife of Meliaduct, King Lonua, was relieved of the burden by the boy and died, having barely managed to kiss her son and call him Tristan (in the lane with the French - sad), because he was born in sorrow. The king entrusted the baby to the Governor, and he himself soon married again. The boy grew strong and beautiful, ...

In the introduction to the “History of the Sevrambs,” the author notes that this book is not a figment of rich imagination, but the truthful notes of Captain Silenus. Confirmation of this is not only the testimony of a doctor to whom the captain, being at death, passed the main work of his life, but also the stories of those who somehow ...

Act 1. Prologue The Old Pridamant, a city dweller from Rennes, has been searching in vain for ten years now for his only beloved son, Klindor, whom he once banished, and now repents. Dorant, a childhood friend of Klindor, leads the old man to the wizard Alcandre, "working" in one grotto. Alcandra nothing else ...

Emilia is possessed by a passionate desire to avenge Augustus for the death of her father, Kai Toranius, the educator of the future emperor, executed by him during the triumvirate. In the role of the perpetrator of revenge, she sees her lover, Zinnu; no matter how painful Emilia is to realize that, raising her hand against the almighty Augustus, Zinn exposes ...

The beginning of the last century. A traveler, making a trip to Italy, in one of the provincial towns gets acquainted with a sad young man. When a young man falls ill, the traveler takes care of him, and he, having recovered, gives his manuscript in gratitude to him. Sure that the diary ...

Eliza, the daughter of Harpagon, and the young man Valera fell in love for a long time, and this happened under very romantic circumstances - Valera saved the girl from the stormy sea waves when the ship on which they both sailed wrecked. Valer's feeling was so strong that he settled in Paris and entered ...

: Instead of leading the battle, the marshal plays billiards at the headquarters. The battle was eventually lost, the army retreats, not waiting for the commander’s orders, but the marshal won his party. The battle has been going on for two days. Exhausted soldiers spent the night in the pouring rain, and now for three hours ...

The play is preceded by a dedication to Henrietta of England, the wife of the king’s brother, the official patron of the troupe. The author's preface informs readers that the answers to those who condemned the play are contained in Critique (meaning comedy in one act Critique of the School of Wives, 1663). Two old friends ...

The action takes place immediately after the establishment of the July monarchy. Nineteen-year-old Opac Dumont, the son of a small provincial official, received the title of Bachelor, arrives in Paris. Parents deny themselves everything to provide their son with decent content and give him the opportunity ...

The story takes place in the era of the Regency (1715-1723), when the mores of French society were characterized by extreme liberties. With the cheerful and frivolous regent Philippe of Orleans in France, a reaction immediately began to the "lean" spirit that reigned under the aged king. French society ...

The novel begins a series of twenty works dedicated to the Rugon-Makkarov family. By the example of this family, Emil Zola tracks the vices and virtues transmitted by inheritance. I Plassant, a town in the south of France, beginning of December 1851. In one of the back streets of St. Mithra, where before ...

: The story of an Iraqi refugee trying to hide from a war going on in his homeland for many years. On the way to Europe, he overcomes many difficulties, meets both friends and enemies. His adventures are a real modern "odyssey." The main character Saad explains that his name in Persian means ...

On February 27, 1815, the three-masted ship Pharaoh returned to Marseille from another voyage. Captain Leclair was not destined to step on his native land: he died of a fever in the open sea. The young sailor Edmond Dantes took command, fulfilling another last captain’s will: “Pharaoh” ...