“I am a little high school student. When I grow up, I will be like Mr. Kovalevsky. This is what the whole family demands of me. I will be an engineer and a h...

“Klych printed out a small triangular letter from the field mail. This is not from my brother, no. Not his handwriting... Klych turned the piece of paper to ...

“The schoolchildren entered a small room in which their sick friend was lying. He had already recovered, but the doctor ordered him to spend another day or t...

“We, residents of a big city, do not really appreciate one amazing opportunity that is given to us: on any day, each of us can visit the zoological garden. W...

“The boy Alexander was planing planks in the kitchen. The cuts on his fingers were covered with golden edible crusts. The kitchen opened onto the courtyard; ...

“A company was sitting on a bench: a girl, a young man and a certain learned old man. It was a summer morning. Above them stood a mighty tree with a hollow. ...

“On Sunday I visited Natasha at the dacha. Besides me, there were three more guests: two girls and Boris Mikhailovich. The girls and Natasha’s brother Erast ...

Yuri Olesha is a famous master of prose who has firmly taken his place in the literature of the twentieth century. His famous novels "Envy" and "Three Fat Me...

Yuri Karlovich Olesha (1899–1960) was called “the king of metaphors” among contemporary writers. Olesha did not know how to write “dark and sluggish”, long a...

“The old man sat down at the table set for breakfast. The table was set for one. There was a coffee pot, a milk jug, a glass in a glass holder with a spoon d...

“The man in the black tights puts his head between his legs and looks at his own back; another person drinks twenty glasses of water, lights a cigar, walks a...