stories
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The Witch and Other Stories – ebook
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A short story about an unhappy involuntary marriage. Family quarrels, like bad weather in the Russian wilderness: there is nothing worse than becoming an involuntary captive of a blizzard of someone else’s spousal abuse. The main character of the story is an ordinary woman with an unfortunate fate. All its features consist only in youth and attractive appearance, and in the still alive soul, which...Data dostępności:
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Creatures That Once Were Men and Other Stories – ebook
Maxim Gorky
A collection of short stories by a popular and influential Russian author, the founder of the literary method of socialist realism and, possibly, the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. He wrote short stories, plays, memoirs and novels that touched the imagination of the Russian people, and was the first Russian author to sympathize sympathetically with characters such as tramps and...Data dostępności:
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Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories – ebook
Maxim Gorky
The poem in prose „Twenty-Six and One” is based on the writer’s impressions related to life in Kazan and work in Semenov’s bakery. Gorky considers the image of a tramp, revealing its negative qualities. The work tells about twenty-six bakers, attitude, feelings, the behavior of which is presented by the author as the attitude of one person. This is achieved by using Gorky a huge number of pronouns...Data dostępności:
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Through Russia – ebook
Maxim Gorky
The stories, united under the name „Through Russia”, were originally printed by M. Gorky in various periodicals and collections. In the series of short stories „In Russia”. M. Gorky refers to the image of the „past in order to illuminate the paths to the future.” The writer reflected the harsh truth of the life of „little great people”, life-giving and decorating the earth with their labor.Data dostępności:
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The First Distiller – ebook
Leo Tolstoy
Such was the breadth of Tolstoy’s talents that he was unsurpassed in stories, essays and plays. A play about a demon who was stuck on the theft of the souls of peasants. The story itself is a story about juvenile morality, which seems so heavy that Tolstoy’s footprints should be on every page.Data dostępności:
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My Life – ebook
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The theme of the „little man”, which appeared in many of Chekhov’s short stories, was also touched on in the novel „My Life”. The main character, Misail Poloznev, a nobleman by birth, becomes a simple worker. In order to live the way he wants, he breaks with his father. He is opposed to lies and hypocrisy, namely they, in his opinion, reign among the intelligentsia. The quote of the old house painter...Data dostępności:
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Śpiące królewny – audiobook
Owen King Stephen King
W przyszłości tak realistycznej i bliskiej, że mogłaby być współczesnością, coś dziwnego dzieje się z kobietami, które zasypiają: szczelnie owija je zwiewna substancja przypominająca kokon. Gdy ktoś je budzi, gdy obrastający je materiał zostaje naruszony bądź zerwany, uśpione kobiety wpadają w dziką furię i stają się szaleńczo agresywne; śpiąc, przenoszą się do innego świata − świata, w którym panuje...Data dostępności:
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