Category: British literature

Travel to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Laggnegg, Glabbdobdrib and Japan

: The ship's doctor set sail, fell into the hands of pirates, reached the flying island, where some scientists lived, visited the island ruled by the sorcerer, and reached Japan, from where he successfully returned home. The narration is on behalf of the ship's physician Lemuel Gulliver. The titles of the chapters are conditional. Chapter ...

Travel to the country of guigmings

: The ship's doctor came to the country of intelligent horses and semi-wild primates. The doctor fell in love with noble horses and hated people. Returning home, he was never able to get used to his wife and children. The narration is conducted on behalf of the ship's physician Lemuel Gulliver. Chapter 1. Gulliver enters the country of the guignings ...

Travel to Brobdingneg

: During a sea voyage, a ship's doctor entered the land of giants and became a favorite pet of the royal family. Once, a giant eagle carried a doctor’s house into the ocean, where a ship picked him up and took him home. The narration is conducted on behalf of the ship's physician Lemuel Gulliver. The titles of the chapters are conditional. Chapter ...

Travel to Liliput

: During the sea voyage, the ship's doctor fell into a severe storm and ended up in the country of Lilliputians. The doctor became a prisoner of the emperor of the Lilliputians and was nearly executed, but fled in time and reached the house. The narration is on behalf of the ship's physician Lemuel Gulliver. The titles of the chapters are conditional. Chapter ...

Winnie the Poohand all-all-all

Winnie the Pooh is a teddy bear, a great friend of Christopher Robin. A variety of stories happen to him. Once, going into the clearing, Winnie the Pooh sees a tall oak tree, at the top of which something buzzes: zhzhzhzhzhzhzh! In vain no one will buzz, and Winnie the Pooh is trying to climb a tree for honey. Dumping into the bushes ...

Girl online

: An English tenth grader gets into trouble, leaves for New York, and falls in love with a guy who hides that he is a rock singer. Because of this, the girl quarrels with him, but then the lovers make peace. The narration is conducted on behalf of the Englishwoman, tenth graders Penelope Porter. Family, friends and problems ...

Unconquered

Two German soldiers - Hans and Willie - went to a French farm to ask how to get to Soissons (one of the districts of France). The door was opened to them by a young girl who replied that she did not know the way.Then the soldiers entered the house and got an answer from the girl’s parents. Having drunk a bottle of wine, Hans, ...

Six Napoleons

: Someone steals and smashes cheap busts of Napoleon cast in one enterprise. Sherlock Holmes discovers that the criminal is looking for a precious pearl stolen and hidden in one of the busts. Inspector Leystred often visits Sherlock Holmes. One day he talks about a strange incident: ...

Three Garrideb

: The culprit promises the peace archaeologist more of an inheritance to remove him from the apartment where the machine that prints counterfeit money is hidden. Sherlock Holmes exposes and catches the criminal. Sherlock Holmes seeks help from attorney John Garrydeb, an American living in London. Alexander Garideb, his ...

Five grains of orange

: Father and uncle of a young man die in accidents. Sherlock Holmes discovers that the killings were committed by members of the secret society of the Ku Klux Klan. Sherlock Holmes seeks help from a young man, John Openshaw. John's father invented particularly durable bicycle tires and a well-off ...

Three students

: Before the exam, someone is trying to write off the text of the assignment, for which they give a good scholarship. Sherlock Holmes discovers that this is the son of a ruined aristocrat, who previously worked as an examiner's servant. Sherlock Holmes is contacted by a college teacher, Greek Soames, for help. ...

Happy Prince and other tales

Happy Prince Covered with gold and precious stones, the sculpture of the Happy Prince stood on a column above the city. Everyone admired the beautiful statue. Once the Starling flew over the city - he left his beloved Trostinka, who was a homebody and did not share the love of travel, but only ...

The Taming of the Shrew

Copperman Christopher Sly falls asleep in a drunken sleep at the door of the inn. From hunting, the lord returns with the rangers and servants, and, finding the sleeping man, decides to play a joke with him. His servants carry Sly to a luxurious bed, wash in fragrant water, dress in an expensive dress. When Sly wakes up, he is told that he ...

King Henry IV

Part One The source of the plot was several anonymous plays and chronicles of Holinshed, with whom, however, Shakespeare treated very freely. The plays about the reign of Henry IV comprise, as it were, the middle part of the tetralogy, the beginning of which is Richard II and the end is Henry V. They are all connected by sequence. ...

twelfth Night, or Anything

The comedy takes place in a country fabulous for the British Shakespearean time - Illyria. The duke of Illyria Orsino is in love with the young Countess Olivia, but she is in mourning after her brother’s death and does not even accept the duke’s envoys. Olivia’s indifference only incites the duke’s passion. Orsino accepts for service ...

Christmas Carol: Haunted Christmas Tale

: The sacred spirits show the hunks his past, where he became greedy, the present, where no one loves him, and the future, where he will die alone if he does not change. The miser is changing and becoming generous. Stanza I. The spirit of Marley The old gloomy miser Ebensar Scrooge has long loved no one and nothing but his own ...

Lonely cyclist

: The girl is pursued by two swindlers to take possession of her inherited fortune.The famous Sherlock Holmes exposes swindlers. Sherlock Holmes is contacted by a young woman named Violet Smith. After the death of her father, she and her mother were left without a livelihood, and the girl earns herself ...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

: The brave wizard boy confronts the dark magician, the killer of his parents, and makes every effort so that the villain does not get the philosopher's stone: the death of parents should not be in vain. The Dursleys hate everything unusual. But one day, strange people begin to walk the streets ...

Adventure Clerk

: To commit a bank robbery, fraudsters offer a clerk a profitable job, and they themselves take his place. Sherlock Holmes intervenes and extradits police criminals. Sherlock Holmes seeks help from a young man named Hall Piccroft. Mr. Piccroft served for many years at a brokerage firm, ...