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1) The Huntsman
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Russian
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Yegor the huntsman, walking down a country road accidentally meets his estranged wife Pelageya whom he's been married for twelve years but visited just several times, and even then, drunk and violent. She weeps and, fawning before him, implores him to visit her more often. He tries to explain why he, the best sportsman around, 'a pampered man', enjoying good tea and 'refined conversation', could not bear to live in a village.
2) The Fish
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Russian
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On a hot summer day two carpenters, Gerasim and Lyubim, sit in a pond, floundering about in the water under a willow tree, beside the unfinished bathing shed they were supposed to be working on. Blue from cold and wrangling, they struggle to drag a large eelpout by the gills, from under the root. Read in Russian, unabridged.
3) 1984 Russian
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Russian
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George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterized by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell's work remains influential in popular and political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"-describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices-is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big...
4) A Malefactor
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Russian
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A local investigating magistrate unsuccessfully tries to explain that it is wrong to take nuts off the railroad track to a peasant, Grigoryev, who simply cannot see why he's to be deprived of his right to use an iron nut as a weight for his fishing line.
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Russian
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“The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov is a timeless classic that continues to captivate audiences from around the world. An iconic play set in pre-revolutionary Russia, it tells the story of a family struggling with the impending loss of their beloved home and orchard. It is a bittersweet tale of love, loss, and longing, full of humor and poignancy. The play is often read as a dramatization of the decline of the aristocracy and other socio-economic...
6) Salomé
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Russian
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Salomé” - is a work by the Irish philosopher, aesthete, writer and poet O. Wilde (1854 - 1900). One act play was written by the author in French in 1891. It was translated into English and published in London in 1894. The basis of the tragedy - is the story of Salome, the character of the New Testament. Salome - is the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, she is the one, who tempted Herod by dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils. To her stepfather's...
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Everyone knows the effect of dealing with texts of the past as with venerable old people: here we love them, here we respect them, and there and there we tactfully turn a blind eye, because everyone understands everything. In Greenland-Green's fictional country-from any point of view one should not turn a blind eye to anything. It does not become obsolete, but only becomes closer and more modern. Greenland is a territory of freedom that has stood...
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Russian
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The Belkin Tales” by A.s. Pushkin, a great Russian prose writer and poet. It's the beginning of Russian classic literature that is highly valued by both contemporaries and further writers. The series consists of five short stories: "the Shot", "the Blizzard", "the Undertaker", "the Station Master" and "the Squire's Daughter". Each story is written in different genres: "the Shot". romanticism, "the Blizzard", "the Station Master" and "the Squire's...
10) The Lower Depths
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Russian
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The Griboyedov Prize laureate, the play «the Lower Depths» is legally considered to be the pick of Maxim Gorky's creative work. The dramatical piece was the result of almost twenty year author's observation after the impoverished people. The heroes of the play - are the inhabitants of the doss-house, people of hard destiny, who by lots appeared to be on the very bottom of the society. The author's absolute achievement is his try using this ambiguous...
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Russian
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It is restless in the capital Bureau of storage the claws and tails. Instead of storing these very claws and tails for the needs of the national economy, the bureau is divided into two warring sides and has the cat-and-dog fight with itself. The part of it which is leaded by the fiery chief and tribune comrade Fanatiuk wins. The loser tribune and chief comrade Sataniuk is removed. All the Sataniuk`s supporters as it seems, are going to have the inevitable...
12) Mumu
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Russian
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'Mumu’ is, a psychological story by Ivan Turgenev about a deaf and dumb yard-keeper Gerasim, who has to separate with his beloved and to drown his only friend, a dog just because of the mistress' caprice. The author sympathizes with a simple and kind Gerasim, and his mistress is depicted as a cruel and cinical, capricious person.
13) The Nose
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Russian
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The Nose” - is a magnificent absurd short story by a great Russian satirist Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. The unity of lambent Gogol's humor and bright sketching of the everyday life of those times make this comic work to be special.
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The Government Inspector” - is a famous play by an outstanding writer of the Xix centurynikolai Gogol, which is compulsory for all the schoolchildren. The readers are used to perceiving the official company and Khlestakov's adventures as a satiric play from the pre-revolutionary Russia. However, few people know that under the figure of real government inspector Gogol was trying to lead out to the scene not only suddenly appeared capital inspector,...
15) The Barrack
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Russian
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This is one of the first film scripts by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov. This is a mute film, so-called ‘socialistic comedy’. This is a story about the brigade of the builders-concreters, who are building a huge dam for the new hydroelectric power station and about their brigadier Bitiugov. This is a story, when the campaign of glorification and praising of the modest and simple workers reaches the grandiose and just unbelievable level, from which...
16) The Seagull
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Russian
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The Seagull” - is a celebrated comedy by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), a great Russian writer. *** The plot is based on feelings of Konstantin Treplyov and Nina Zarechnaya and their difficult life choice: fame, glory or the true love. The one of special aspects of this work is that there are no required for the drama elements: dynamic storyline and entertaining events. The admirers of A.p. Chekhov's works will get a great pleasure after reading...
18) Izumrud
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Russian
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'Izumrud’ is, a psychological short story by Aleksandr Kuprin about the humanity of animals and wildness of people. The main hero, a beautiful horse, named Izumrud does not understand the strange and cruel world of people.
19) Summer Novella
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Russian
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Novellas by Stefan Zweig. Golden classics of European psychological realism of the begging of XX century. They were filmed by geniuses of European and American cinematograph of the times of its «golden age»: Robert Land and Max Ophüls, Étienne Périer and Robert Siodmak. Every novella still enraptures, puts into rage, makes argue with the author and his characters, love them and hate, criticize them and forgive.
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The Redstone Moscow” - is a splendid essay by the famous Russian writer, playwright and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940). This is an ordinary Moscow landscape. The trams are buzzing, the children are having fun, the newspaper sellers are shouting along the whole street, trying to draw the passers-by's attention and the cars are rushing along the road.
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