: After losing his hand in a fight with a shark, the pilot again decides to earn money by shooting sea predators, again exposes his son, who saved him last time, to new tests, and he almost dies. The Shark Cage is a continuation of James Aldridge’s last inch. Surviving the attack ...

The action takes place in 1850-1853. The choir begins the story of the glorious robber Joaquin Muriet, whose ghost still hovers over California, a free Chilean who died in a foreign land. Boy newspaper men shouting news: California has a gold rush. Drawn by a distant mirage, to the port of Valparaiso ...

: A shark attacks his father and seriously injures him. A ten-year-old son drags him onto a plane and delivers him to the clinic.This tragedy brings father and son together. “Father and Son” is an excerpt from James Aldridge’s short story “The Last Inch.” The title of the passage is conditional; in the original it is not entitled in any way. On Ben Ben ...

It was the third year of the war. There were no adult healthy men in the ail, and therefore the wife of my elder brother Sadyk (he was also at the front), Jamil, the brigade leader sent for purely male work - to carry grain to the station. And so that the elders did not worry about the bride, he sent me along with her, a teenager. He also said: ...

Old northern forest under a high starry sky. Leaning against the trunk of an old hollow oak, the decrepit priest froze in dead stillness. His blue lips are half-open, his paused eyes no longer look on this visible side of eternity. Skinny arms folded in her lap. To the right of him on the rocks ...

: The narrator receives a bull terrier puppy as a gift from a friend. The dog turns out to be very brave, boldly rushes into battle even with the one who is larger than her, and dies during the hunt for the wolf. The narration is conducted in the first person. The narrator received a package from his school friend. Parcel preceded ...

: Life and adventures of a simple Soviet girl: family, school, first love, a passion for chemistry, sharing things with friends, writing poetry, thinking about the future and even helping to investigate the murder. The novel takes place in Kiev. The narration is conducted on behalf of the sixth grader Olya Alekseeva. ...

: The driver marries for love, but soon betrays his beloved by changing her. Having learned about everything, the wife leaves him and marries another, and the driver realizes that he has lost his first love. The narration is conducted on behalf of the journalist. The stories of the driver and the road master are presented on their behalf. Instead of a prologue Journalist ...

: The Great Patriotic War. Russian and German are imprisoned in the basement. United by a common misfortune, the heroes become friends, but, freed, they again turn into enemies. The end of World War II. In a city captured by Soviet troops, an air raid suddenly began. Ivan Volok, ...

: The love story of a famous opera singer and drama actor, who were separated by the will of fate. Part One. Actors Jewish theater comes to a small Bessarabian town of Golenesti. The troupe rents a room from the local rich man Beni Rafalovich. In addition to the rent, all numerous ...

The narrative is on behalf of Death - the immortal being of the masculine gender. Prologue. Broken stone mountain range The duty of Death is to take the souls of the dead to the conveyor of eternity, not paying attention to the living. But Death broke the rule and began to follow the girl, whom he called the "book thief."...

The fox-sister and the wolf Baba in the hut sculpts a pie and puts it on the windowsill to bake in the sun, because they and her grandfather do not even have a stove - they live so poorly. A fox with a wolf passes by and steals a pie. The fox secretly eats the entire filling, and blames the wolf. He swears that ...

: Autobiographical story of a disabled boy who managed to overcome the consequences of an incurable disease. The narration is conducted on behalf of the author and is based on his biography. Chapters 1–4 Alan was born into a breeder family named Marshall. Father wanted his son to become a good rider ...

: The story begins in 1915 and spans half a century. The plot focuses on the life of the Cleary family, who has traveled from the New Zealand poor to the managers of one of the largest Australian estates of Droheda. Part 1. 1915–1917 Maggie is the birthday of her youngest daughter, Maggie, who turns four ...

The novel tells of a day on June 16, 1904 from the life of a Dublin Jew, thirty-eight years old, Leopold Bloom and twenty-two-year-old Stephen Dedalus. The three parts of a huge book, divided into eighteen episodes, should, according to the author, relate to the Homeric Odyssey (Ulysses - Latin ...

: Two young men, a Russian and a Jew, decide to exchange documents so that the Russian is a year a Jew and the Russian Jew. But an innocent joke ends tragically. The novel is based on real events, The Beilis Case. Part One Jew Gershka Rabinovich, son of a tradesman from Shklov, complains to his Russian ...

Memorial Day (end of summer, beginning of autumn). Aged Tolgonay comes to the field to pour out his soul. This strong woman has no one to complain about her life. As a child, during the harvest, Tolgonai was brought to the field by the hand and planted in the shade under the shock. The girl was left a loaf of bread so that she would not cry....

: A man who escaped from Australia’s most guarded prison finds himself in Bombay, where he becomes an approximate to the head of the mafia group. Part One The narrator, who escaped from prison and hiding under the name of Lindsay Ford, arrives in Bombay, where he meets Prabaker - a little man with a huge ...

: A young teacher who has worked for several years in rural schools is being fired due to revolutionary activity. He connects his future life with the cause of the revolution. Book one. In the Polesskaya Wilderness Young Teacher Andrei Petrovich Lobanovich, who recently graduated from a teacher’s seminary, receives ...

A resident of the small town of Salvador in the vicinity of Bahia, Floripedes Paiva Guimaraens, a young mistress of the Taste and Art cooking school, becomes a widow.Her husband Valdomiro, nicknamed Gulyaka, a drunkard, a gambler, a womanizer and a merry fellow, dies in the color of years at the height of the carnival from a broken heart....