Gyula Krúdy is a marvelous writer who haunted the taverns of Budapest and lived on its streets while turning out a series of mesmerizing, revelatory novels that are among the masterpieces of modern literature. Krúdy conjures up a...
В Неаполе, где я находился в 1824 году, я слышал, как в обществе упоминали об истории Suora Scolastica и каноника Чибо. Я был тогда очень любопытен,...
Sur l'eau est un récit de voyage écrit par Guy de Maupassant en 1888.
Sur l’eau est le récit d’une croisière que fit l’auteur sur son yacht personnel le long de la côte d’Azur et en particulier à Saint-Tropez. C’est une Côte...
From preface: In naming this second part of The Forsyte Chronicles "A Modern Comedy" the word Comedy is stretched, perhaps as far as the word Saga was stretched to cover the first part. And yet, what but a comedic view can be taken, what but...
This short story was tremendously interesting with such strong and mind gripping words that totally and utterly ensnared and encaptured from beginning to...
Sweet Thursday is a 1954 novel by John Steinbeck. It is a sequel to Cannery Row and set in the years after the end of World War II. According to the author, “Sweet Thursday” is the day after Lousy Wednesday and the day before Waiting...
From the return of Jimi Hendrix, as witnessed by a hero-worshipping spaced-out roadie, to the death of Christ as witnessed by a time-traveling tourist, from the end of the universe to the creation of a new one, these are stories about martyrdom,...