The original of this work is read in just 9 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. Struck by a serious illness and tormented by fever, the narrator finds himself in the middle of the deserted Italian mountains. His valet, not wanting to leave the owner to sleep in the open air, without asking ...

I moved to an old house in downtown Broadway. The upper floors of the house where I rented an apartment were empty for a long time. It was a kingdom of dust and cobwebs, loneliness and silence. I was embarrassed by the silence and neglect of the house, as if I had disturbed the peace of the dead. For the first time in my life, I felt superstitious fear, and when it’s sticky ...

Seventeen-year-old Holden Caulfield, who is in the sanatorium, recalls “that crazy story that happened last Christmas”, after which he “nearly lost his ends”, was ill for a long time, and now he is undergoing treatment and soon hopes to return home. His memories begin from the very day ...

: The meek bachelor goes on a pleasure trip and finds a place that he had long dreamed of.Fellow travelers do not allow him to stay, but the bachelor persuades his boss and returns there forever. Vasily Ivanovich, a Russian emigrant living in Berlin, was a modest, meek bachelor with smart and ...

Thirty-one-year-old Benjamin Driscoll dreams of seeing Mars green and filling the Martian atmosphere with oxygen. To fulfill his dream, Benjamin works tirelessly - he spends thirty days indistinguishable from each other on Mars, and all this time he plants trees. Do you think everything that gives ...

: Two boys, their friends and relatives experience the Machine of Happiness, catch the terrible Murderer, save the wax forecaster and make wine from dandelions - a concentrate of summer days. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding woke up in his grandfather's tower - the tallest building in Greentown. He looked out ...

Chapter 1-3 Sixteen-year-old Hazel Lancaster, on behalf of whom the story is being narrated, lives in a small town in Indiana. The girl has thyroid cancer and lung metastases. Hazel can only breathe with an oxygen cylinder, and at night it is connected to a large oxygen concentrator....

1915-1918 The American Frederick Henry is a lieutenant in the sanitary forces of the Italian army (the Italian because the United States has not yet entered the war, and Henry volunteered). Before the attack in the town on Plavna, where the sanitary units are located, there is a lull. Officers spend time as best they can - drink, play ...

“Consistent with the law, Cincinnatus Ts. Cincinnatus’s unforgivable fault is its“ impermeability ”,“ opacity ”for the others who are terribly similar (the jailer Rodion now and then turns into the director of the prison, Rodrig Ivanovich, and vice versa; the lawyer and prosecutor must by law to be single brothers ...

A young American with the biblical name Ishmael (Genesis says of Ishmael, son of Abraham: “He will be between people like a wild donkey, his hands on everyone and everyone’s hands on him”), bored by being on land and having difficulty in money, he accepts the decision to sail in a whaling ship....

Fourteen-year-old Baby Jerry, the son of a sailor, old Jerry, sings a sailor song and selects an anchor to sail to Frisco port. He has never seen the sea and does not know how it looks, but two hundred feet from it the river Sacramento rages. Boy's father earns money by transporting people ...

Part 1. Preliminary questions School teacher Jack Torrance is an alcoholic in the eyeballs, sometimes losing control of himself. During one of the binges, he breaks the hand of his son, who scattered the sheets with the play on which he is working. Then he beats his student when he sees that he is piercing the tires of his car....

: A well-known professor is looking for the source of the plague bred by a geneticist. The plague is a virus of infertility, which should stop the overpopulation of the planet and save civilization from death. In the prologue of the novel, a man escapes from his pursuers and throws himself from the highest tower of Florence. Before ...

: Puppy and teddy bear are alone in the forest. With the onset of winter, the teddy bear hibernates. Left alone, the puppy survives and finds a master. The little bear Neyev is born in late March. His mother, an old bear, teaches the baby how to get food, how to avoid danger. Not sparing ...

: A man buries his sister alive. Hacking the coffin, the woman returns from the crypt for her brother, and the walls of their house collapse, burying a terrible crime under the rubble. The narrator receives a letter from an old friend of Roderick Asher, whom they have not seen for many years. Asher so desperately asks him to come, ...

: To rid the world of wars, the sergeant-pacifist invents a device that turns weapons into rust. Military equipment is destroyed, and the colonel sets off in pursuit of the sergeant, armed with a leg from a chair. Colonel heard rumors about the unimportant mental state of Sergeant Hollis. Colonel calls ...

: A man tormented by memories of a deceased beloved enters into a dialogue with a raven who can only say “never”. The man on whose behalf the narration is being conducted sits in the dead of December night while studying old books. In them, he tries to drown the sorrow of his beloved - the dead Lenore....

: A man wants to give his family the longest vacation in history and wants all people on Earth to disappear. The desire comes true, the world is empty, but his little son dreams of people returning. Three people are traveling by rail in a trolley, a man, a woman and a boy are a family. Running out of gas ...

William Lee was born and raised in a fashionable quiet suburb of one of the big cities of the Midwest. In childhood and adolescence, he did not stand out among peers, except that he read them much more. At the end of Harvard, William stumbled around pre-war Europe for a year, the benefit of a stable monthly ...

: Far future. The Hunger Games are a reminder of the brutally crushed rebellion.To survive the Games, the heroine must kill a friend, but she remains herself, choosing love and friendship. The novel is written on behalf of the main character Katniss Everdeen. Part I. Attributes Panem State, formed on ...