This most extensive of the sagas about the hero of the Irish epic, Kuhulin, is sometimes called the "Irish Iliad."It is dominated by the theme of war between the Ulad and the Connaught. The reason for the war was the abduction at the behest of Medb, the Queen of Connaught, a beautiful brown bull of divine origin, belonging ...

: XIII century. The Carpathian village lives independently and freely, however, a boyar appears and considers himself the rightful owner of the region. The villagers do not submit and defeat the boyar, united with the Mongols. The boyar Tugar Wolf arrives in the Carpathian village of Tukhlya. Prince Daniel granted him these lands. The wolf sets off ...

: A Jewish milkman works hard dreaming of wealth and prosperity. He often quotes scripture and interprets sayings, thereby emphasizing that they do not correspond to actual life. The work is based on the letters of the milkman Tevye to the writer Sholom Aleichem. Az unworthy Poor ...

Part I. Motel - the son of Cantor Pacey The father of nine-year-old Motel, Cantor Paysya, is seriously ill, and his mother, with his eldest son Elya, sells things. It is fun for Motlu to watch shoppers bargain and sleep on the floor when beds are sold. Alya decides to give Mottle to the cantor for singing. Boy will learn ...

: A poor Jew from a small town ends up in a big city. Trying to make money, he suffers one failure after another. The collection is based on the correspondence of the protagonist with his wife. London (Odessa Exchange) Menachem Mendl arrives in Chisinau to his uncle for a dowry. He gives him a bill, some cash ...

: The tragic story of a talented cantor who married an unloved woman. In the Cold Synagogue of Mazepovka, the cantor Shmulik Yampolsky, who has a beautiful voice, sings. Once a world-famous cantor arrives in Mazepovka, and Shmulik, having first heard a professional’s singing, decides to teach singing ...

: To understand their own nature, a young Brazilian deliberately becomes a prostitute. She withstands the test of pain and pleasure in sex, considering them to be manifestations of true masculine love. Part One Like all girls, Maria, born in a small town in a Brazilian province, ...

In the capital city of Kiev, the Grand Duke Vladimir feast. At the feast, princes, boyars and mighty heroes. Suddenly a hundred fellows appeared, followed by another hundred, and behind those, and another hundred. All of them are beaten, wounded, lush heads tied with sash. The beaten fellows beat the prince with a brow. They drove along the river Cherege to the sovereign ...

Sadko is a young hussar from Veliky Novgorod. At the beginning of the story he is poor, proud and proud.His only treasure is the lined gusli on which he plays, moving from one cheerful feast to another. However, the day comes, and after it another, third, when Sadko is not called for an honest feast. Pride ...

: Because of love for the prince, the little mermaid changes her fish tail for a pair of slender legs. Failing to achieve reciprocity, she dies and becomes sea foam. In the deepest part of the sea stands the coral palace of the sea king. He has been widowed for a long time, and his old mother, a worthy and intelligent woman, is the boss of the palace....

Stepanida and Petrok Bogatka live on the farm Jachymovschina, three kilometers from the town of Vyselki. Their son Fedya serves in the tank forces, daughter Fenya is studying "for a doctor" in Minsk. The war begins. The front swiftly sweeps east, the Germans come. There comes a terrible life in the unpredictability of new ills....

Norway at the beginning of the 20th century The hero, Wilfred Sagen, Little Lord, grows up in the hypocritical atmosphere of a wealthy bourgeois family. The extraordinary nature of the fourteen-year-old boy hates the pretense of his mother (his father is not alive) and other relatives, their desire to protect him from real life. The hero does not allow ...

February 1953 The family of Abutalip Kuttybaev, a wife with two sons, lives on the Boranly-Burany stop. For a month now, Abutalip has been in the Alma-Ata pre-trial detention center, in which a multi-strong electric lamp shines all day, and Abutalip cannot hide from it, day or night, ...

Trains in these parts went from east to west and from west to east ... And on the sides of the railway in these parts lay great desert spaces - Sary-Ozeki, the middle lands of the yellow steppes. Edigey worked here as a switchman at the Boranly-Burany junction. At midnight, he made his way to the booth ...

Part One In that summer, wolves were first born to the wolf Akbara and the wolf of Tashchaynar in the Moyunkum reserve. With the first snow, it was time for hunting, but how did the wolves know that their primordial prey - saigas - would be needed to replenish the meat-delivery plan, and that someone would suggest using it for ...

Mom was about to give her cold son an elderberry tea. An old man peeped in who always had a fairy tale at his disposal. When a fairy tale suddenly "came" to the old man, elderberry branches appeared from under the lid of the kettle, and from them a tender old woman - Elderberry mother (Dryad) smiled. The old man told about ...

The Diary of a Seducer is a part of the most famous book of the Danish philosopher and writer Seren Kierkegaard, “Ili - Ili”, written in the form of a novel, sometimes printed separately. In the “Preface” to the book, its imaginary publisher Victor Eremita explains: the notes published by him were found in a case purchased ...

Part One Alpamysh and Barchin are engaged to the cradle. Their fathers, the brothers Baiburi and Baysary, the noble beks of the “Sixteen-Tribe Congrat” tribe, were childless for a long time until they begged their children from God. Baysara gave birth to a daughter, Bayburi had twins: a son and a daughter. Having quarreled with his brother, Baysary migrated ...

From the glorious city of Galich, from the rich land of Volyn, a good fellow, Duke Stepanovich, left for hunting. But the hunt did not work out - for nothing he shot his dear arrows. Duke gathered all the arrows into the quiver and returned home to Galich, and it was on Great Saturday. Duke defended Vespers and asked his mother ...

Prince Vladimir is having a feast on the mountain. Princes, boyars and heroes, fully fed up and drunk, boast to each other: some with wealth, others with power, merchants with goods, boyars with estates and estates. Danila Denisievich alone does not boast. Prince Vladimir asks him if he is silent ...