How Peppy goes shopping Once on a clear spring day, when Tommy and Annika had no classes at school, Peppy decided to go shopping. Grabbing a handful of gold coins, the children went out onto the main street of the town. Peppy began by buying a hand from a mannequin, deciding that her third hand ...

How Peppy is buying a Chicken villa Before Peppy arrived, there were two sights in the town - the Museum of Local Lore and the Barrow. The townspeople hung two signs so that any visitor could find a way to these places. But now in the city there is another sign - “To the Villa“ Chicken “” - because the house, ...

How Peppy settled in the Chicken Villa On the outskirts of a small Swedish town, a nine-year-old girl, Peppy Longstocking, settled. Peppy's mother died when she was very young. The girl did not remember her at all and thought that her mother was an angel. Peppy is sure that her mother lives in heaven now and looks ...

The captain of artillery and his wife Alice, a former actress, live in a fortress on the island. They are sitting in the living room, located in the fortress tower, and talking about the upcoming silver wedding. The captain believes that it must be noted without fail, while Alice would prefer to hide their family from prying eyes ...

Mariamne, wife of Herod the Great, king of Judea (years of his life c. 73–74 BC - B.E.), belonged to the royal family of the Maccabees, enemies of Herod, and was killed by him in 37. They were killed by Herod and two of his own sons from Mariamne - Alexander and Aristobulus (not mentioned in the story). The people of Judea considered the king ...

The scene of the novel is the author’s homeland, the forests of the southern province of Verend, or rather, the village of Brendabol (fictitious name). People living in the twelve courtyards of Brendabol become dependent on their new neighbor - the landowner Kleven who came from Germany: he serves at the court of the Swedish Queen Christina ...

The tenth year after the end of the Trojan War. On the island of the nymph Calypso, where Odysseus has been living for seven years, the Messenger of the Gods Hermes arrives with a report and instructions: It is time for the wanderer to return home and put things in order there. But Odysseus does not seek Ithaca, for he understands that he will again be forced ...

The old man sits in a wheelchair at the billboard. He sees the Student talking to the Milkwoman and tells her that the day before he saved people from the rubble of a collapsed building. The old man hears the words of the Student, but does not see the Thrush, for she is a vision. The old man talks to the student and finds out that he ...

The author recalls that he sought to imitate the incoherent, but seemingly logical form of the dream. Time and space do not exist, clinging to the tiny basis of reality, the imagination spins its yarn. Heroes split, evaporate, condense, merge together. Above all, the dreamer's consciousness....

When Benjamin Bork, whose name is simply Benba, is twenty-two years old, he intends to go to America and there to carry out one of his many projects that have one goal: to get rich without spending too much effort. Nothing holds the young man in his homeland. Benbe’s father ...

Somewhere in the darkness, outside of life, the dead sat and talked. Each spoke mostly about himself, but all the others listened attentively. In the end, after discussing their situation, the dead decided on an action. One of those who sat in darkness was indignant at the living; he considered them too arrogant. Living ...

King Eric is a strange and eccentric figure; he is extremely suspicious and prone to unexpected decisions. Disturbing the courtyard, he settled in his Stockholm palace a mistress - the soldier's daughter Karin, whom he sincerely loves and from whom he already has two children. But at the same time he, as befits a monarch, ...

Events unfold over one day in the living room of a military house in the 80s. XIX century Rotmister and Pastor are examining the case of Private Noid. He received a complaint - he does not want to give money for the maintenance of his illegitimate child. Noyd makes excuses by nodding to another soldier, Ludwig: ...

The second half of the 60s. XIX century A young man who was opposed by service in the College of official salaries (this is what the ministry is called) is burning with a desire to benefit society. He meets Struve, a venerable journalist from the opposition Little Red Riding Hood, and asks for his advice and help: ...

The name of the Old Norse (Icelandic) hero - Fridhjofr (Fridhjofr) consists of two parts: fridh - peace, peace and thjofr - thief, that is, means "Thief of the world." The main source of the poem is the Old Norse saga about Fridtjof the Bold, which developed at the end of the XIII or the beginning of the XIV century. It tells about events, ...

The action takes place in Sweden, in the count's, a manor in the kitchen on the night of Ivan Kupala, when, according to popular tradition, all class frames are temporarily canceled among those celebrating this religious and magic holiday. Kristina, a cook of thirty-five years old, stands by the stove, preparing a potion for the patient ...

The novel is written in the form of a diary of a licensed medicine by Tyuko Gabriel Glass. At thirty-three, he never knew a woman. He does not hide that far from everything is telling about himself, but at the same time he doesn’t bother with his soul, believing his thoughts and feelings in the diary. The diary for him is convenient and non-binding ...

The first novel of the Leuvenschöld Ring trilogy takes place on the Hedeby estate, which old General Leuvenschöld receives as a reward from King Charles XII for his faithful service in the war. After the death of the illustrious general, fulfilling the will of the deceased, the ring, also a royal gift, is placed in him ...

The lyrical “I” on behalf of whom the narration is being conducted is “mimorob”, an unnamed engineer serving Mima - a machine that reproduces sensual images captured from the most remote corners of the Universe. Mimorob and Mima, along with eight thousand passengers and crew, are aboard the Goldonder ...