America is a relatively near future, as it was seen by the author in the early fifties, when this dystopian novel was written. Thirty-year-old Guy Montag is a firefighter. However, in these recent times, fire brigades do not fight fire. Quite the contrary. Their task is to find books and betray ...

: USA, 1932. A Negro, sentenced to death for another murder, has the gift of healing. He cures the wife of the head of the prison from cancer, but this does not save him from execution. The novel was written on behalf of Paul Edgegum, who lives in a nursing home. In order not to lose the remnants of the mind, he ...

The events of the novel take place in 1968 - 1972. Excerpts from the diary of Billy Abbott pass through the entire novel with refrain. He is watching the family of the Jordahs from the side. His reasoning, as a rule, is extremely cynical. Part One Journalist Alexander Hubbel and his wife came to rest in Antibes. Already several ...

The work contains autobiographical details, the narration is from the first person. The narrator, Ray Smith, a young man from the “beatniks” generation, travels around America in passing cars and freight trains, often sleeps in the open air and lives on odd jobs, being content ...

: An orphan girl who knows how to find something joyful even in the saddest, moves to her rich, prim aunt and completely changes her life and the lives of other residents of the town. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional. The arrival of Pollyanna and the "game of joy" Miss Polly Harrington, a wealthy single ...

The action takes place in England after the First World War. The poem is based on the myth of the search for the Holy Grail and the legend of the poor fisherman. Parts of the poem are fragmented and do not form unity. The poem begins with an epigraph - the myth of Sibyl. She wished herself eternal life, forgetting to wish eternal youth: “And then ...

: A high school student falls in love with a beautiful classmate and finds out that he is a vampire. The guy saves her life several times and confesses her love, and the girl decides to become a vampire to live with her beloved forever. The narration is on behalf of the seventeen-year-old Isabella Swan. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional....

: Two friends traveling around America and Mexico are filled with alcohol, drugs, sex and jazz. And this road is like a life that never ends. The novel is autobiographical and consists of five parts. Each part is divided into fragments. The narration is conducted on behalf of Sala Paradise....

: The gangster government deprives large entrepreneurs and talented scientists of the possibility of development, thereby destroying the state. The best minds unite and leave the doomed society. Part one. No Controversy Chapter 1. Theme New York's Largest Railway Company ...

: The story of the friendship of two women taking place against the backdrop of the civil war in Afghanistan. Unhappy in marriage, humiliated, deceived and disenfranchised, they help each other as they become a real strong family. Part 1 1970s, Afghanistan, Herat. Girl Mariam, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy ...

: A teenager falls in love with his teacher, but because of the age difference, they are forced to end the relationship. Many years later, he learns that the teacher died young and now he is forever older than her. 24-year-old teacher Ann Taylor came to Greentown to teach at school. Children immediately attached ...

: In order to resurrect the dead son, the father buries him in a cemetery where the dead come to life, but a demon infuses into the body of the child and kills his mother. The father destroys his son and, maddening, revives his wife. The action takes place in the fictional town of Ludlow, in Maine, USA. Part One Dr. Louis Creed was offered ...

The hero of the novel - Fedor Konstantinovich Godunov-Cherdyntsev, a Russian emigrant, the son of a famous entomologist, an offspring of an aristocratic family - lives in poverty in Berlin in the second half of the 1920s, earning private lessons and publishing nostalgic twelve stories about childhood in Russia in Russian newspapers. is he ...

: A family of settlers exploring Mars homesick. To ease the melancholy, the father of the family forwards to Mars a wooden house in which they lived on Earth. Bob dreamed of a colored glass door. Bob - one of the first colonists of Mars, moved to the "red planet" with his family Father ...

: People of the future gather in the square to destroy the painting, but one boy succumbs to the charm of a masterpiece. The year is supposedly 2061, although no one knows for sure. Holiday. In the main square from five o'clock the line is going. Boy Tom also has been waiting in line since early morning. Standing behind ...

Humbert Humbert, a thirty-seven-year-old teacher of French literature, has an extraordinary penchant for nymphet, as he calls them, for charming girls from nine to fourteen. A long childhood impression endowed him with this underground experience, which averts from more mature ...

: The former gangster does honest work and buys his beloved expensive thing. Molly’s blue eyes were laid on both shoulders of Baby Brady, and he left the ranks of the gang, which freed the townsfolk from wallets and other valuables. The kid loves expensive things and despises cheap things, but Molly he’s cute ...

In one state there lived a king who loved to joke.But the king also had a real dwarf jester, whom everyone called the Frog. The frog together with the girl Tripetta gave the king one general. Once the king decided to arrange a masquerade and instructed the Frog to come up with costumes for the guests. Dwarf successfully coped ...

The narrative hero Bromden - the son of a white woman and an Indian leader - pretends to be weak, deaf and dumb. He has long been in a psychiatric hospital, fleeing within its walls from the cruelty and indifference of "normal America." However, the years spent by Bromden in a psychiatric hospital make themselves felt ...

: Petrograd of the 30s. A girl from a noble family does not recognize the Soviet system. After going through trials and betrayal, she escapes from a hated country and, seriously wounded, tries to achieve freedom. The once rich and noble Argunov family (parents with two daughters) is returning from the Crimea to Petrograd....