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10 BOOKS EVERYONE SHOULD READ

fiction literature

Petersburg Tales 

by Nikolai Gogol

A cycle of five works united by the place of action - St. Petersburg. This is a city of deceit and illusion, a city that tempts everyone who enters it, a city of contrasts.

Intertwining reality and fantasy, the author creates a whole gallery of images-portraits that add up to a single picture of life. Everything is here: the splendor of secular life and the cares of the “little” person, their hopes and experiences, depravity and insanity.

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

  Waking up in the morning, Gregor found that he had turned into a terrible beetle. It is no longer possible to stay in the room, but how to appear in front of relatives and the manager, waiting outside the door?

The meaning of the book is that in the pursuit of wealth, people lose the remnants of humanity and humanity.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Conan Doyle

  This story is about one of the greatest detectives of our time, written by his friend and partner.

He reveals the most difficult cases one after another, easily transforms into bandits, booksellers, chimney sweeps... Sherlock is a genius, on his way there are completely different cases and people.

Yes, several times Sherlock is on the brink of death. But how can death defeat the Great Investigator? Never!

The Little Prince

by Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince draws unflattering portraits of grown-ups as being hopelessly narrow-minded. In contrast, children come to wisdom through open-mindedness and a willingness to explore the world around them and within themselves.

The main theme of the fable is expressed in the secret that the fox tells the little prince: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

A Hero of Our Time 

by Mikhail Lermontov

  "A Hero of Our Time" is a philosophical work that poses the most important questions to the reader about the meaning of life, about the role of fate; it is also a love story, fascinating, exciting and tragic.

Written in the century before last, "A Hero of Our Time" does not lose its relevance, because each generation has its own heroes, its own "superfluous people".

The Defense 

by Vladimir Nabokov

A novel about escaping from life into play, fantasy, creativity, about how difficult it is to get into metaphysics, bypassing everyday reality.

  The story of Alexander Ivanovich Luzhin, a chess player, about whom all we can say is that “there was no Alexander Ivanovich”, because it’s as if there is no person who lives in the world of chess.

The Picture of Dorian Gray 

by Oscar Wilde

  “ If this portrait grew old, and I always remained young! I would give my soul for that!” - these fatal words became fatal for the young, extraordinarily beautiful and unspotted Dorian Gray. Since then, not a single wrinkle has appeared on the eternally young face and eternally pure soul of gentleman Gray, but his portrait has aged and died. But it's always time to pay...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 

by Washington Irving

  Residents of Sleepy Hollow in New York State loved stories about all sorts of miracles and evil spirits. The story of the headless horseman enjoyed special love. This story played a fatal role in the rivalry between the teacher Ichabod Crane and the farmer Brom Bons for the hand and heart of the beautiful Katharina.

We

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

  The inhabitants of Utopia have lost their individuality so much that they are distinguished by numbers. They live in glass houses, which allows the political police to easily oversee them. Everyone wears the same uniform. They feed on artificial food and at the hour of rest they march four in a row to the sounds of the anthem of the One State, pouring from the loudspeakers. The guiding principle of the State is that happiness and freedom are incompatible. The United State has again granted man happiness, depriving them of his freedom.

Sun of the Dead 

by Ivan Shmelyov

  The author describes the period when the Whites left the Crimea, and the Reds entered there. Repression, hunger, human suffering.

The book of obesity of pessimism. In addition, he did not know firsthand about the terrible pages in Russian history. Those who have read The Sun of the Dead agree that this book is difficult to read, but necessary.