Traduko de humura rakontpoemo de Puŝkino, inspirita de la Ŝekspira poemo “The Rape of Lucrece”. Komence Puŝkino volis parodii la verkon de Ŝekspiro («Kio okazus, se Lukrecia estus doninta vangofrapon al Tarkvinio?»); sed rezultus la unua...
— …Je la deka kaj dek sep laŭ Peterburga tempo, — per morta voĉo informis la anoncisto. — Gravitavio «Carido» iris de bazo Tjuratamo, kie grandprinco Aleksandro Petroviĉ troviĝis kun inspekta vojaĝo, al flughaveno...
Great Expectations chronicles the progress of Pip from childhood through adulthood. As he moves from the marshes of Kent to London society, he encounters a variety of extraordinary characters: from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham and...
The narrator of this novel is Bucky Wunderlick, a Dylan-Jagger amalgam who finds he's gone as far as he knows how. Mid tour he leaves his rock band and holes up in a dingy East Village apartment, in Great Jones Street. The plot revolves around...
Philip Roth says the novel is dead, but it would be more accurate to say the audience is dead – we're all just too polite to mention it. What is killing the novel is people's growing dependence on feel-good fiction, fantasy and non-fiction. With...
Hysterically funny "Myth Manners' Guide to Greek Missology #1: Andromeda and Perseus." which is a parody of the legend of Andromeda and Perseus featuring thinly disguised modern...