10 works that can be read in a day

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

If you decide to stay at home on the day off, a book can be a great entertainment. These 10 books can be read cover to cover in a day. Pour tea, wrap yourself in a blanket and immerse yourself in the adventures and experiences of the characters.

1. "The Master and Margarita", Mikhail Bulgakov

“Here, as it is quite understandable, there was silence under the linden trees.

“Excuse me,” Berlioz began after a pause, glancing at the foreigner grinding nonsense, “what does sunflower oil have to do with it… and what kind of Annushka?

“What does sunflower oil have to do with it,” Bezdomny suddenly spoke up, obviously deciding to declare war on the uninvited interlocutor, “have you ever, citizen, ever been to a hospital for the mentally ill?

- Ivan!.. - Mikhail Alexandrovich exclaimed quietly.

But the foreigner was not in the least offended and laughed happily.

- I've been, I've been and more than once! - he cried, laughing, but not taking his unlaughing eyes off the poet, - wherever I have not been! It’s a pity that I didn’t bother to ask the professor what schizophrenia is. So you yourself, find out from him, Ivan Nikolaevich!"

2. 1984 by George Orwell

“But in general, he thought, reshaping the arithmetic of the Ministry of Plenty, this is not even a forgery. Just replacing one rubbish with another. For the most part, your material has nothing to do with the real world - even one that contains outright lies. Statistics in its original form is the same fantasy as in the revised one. Most often it is required that you suck it out of your finger."

3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

“If someone died in your house, the neighbors bring you food, if someone is sick, they bring flowers, and sometimes they just give you something. The scarecrow was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch with a chain, two pennies for luck - and he also gave us life. But you answer your neighbors with a gift. And we just took from the hollow and never put anything there, we didn’t give him anything, and it’s very sad.”

4. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

“I am young - I am twenty years old, but all that I have seen in my life is despair, death, fear and the interweaving of the most absurd thoughtless vegetation with immeasurable torment. I see that someone is setting one people against another, and people are killing each other, in insane blinding, submitting to someone else's will, not knowing what they are doing, not knowing their guilt.

I see that the best minds of humanity are inventing weapons to prolong this nightmare, and finding words to justify it even more subtly. And together with me, all people of my age see it, in our country and with them, all over the world, our entire generation is experiencing it.

What will our fathers say if we ever rise from our graves and stand before them and demand an account? What can they expect from us if we live to see the day when there is no war? For many years we were engaged in killing. This was our calling, the first calling in our life."

5. "Humiliated and Insulted", Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Even in the morning I felt unwell, and by the time the sun went down I felt very unwell: something like a fever began. Besides, I was on my feet all day and was tired. In the evening, just before dusk, I walked along Voznesensky Prospect. I love the March sun in St. Petersburg, especially the sunset, of course, on a clear, frosty evening. The whole street will suddenly sparkle, bathed in bright light. All the houses will suddenly sparkle. Their gray, yellow and dirty green colors will lose for a moment all their gloom; as if it will clear up in your soul, as if you will shudder or someone will nudge you with an elbow. A new look, new thoughts … It's amazing what one ray of the sun can do to the soul of a person!"

6. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

“Meetings. We love them very much. Every day. At least twice a day. We all chat. Now I will trumpet the horn, and you will see - they will rush in like cute ones. And all the honor is an honor, someone will say - let's build an airplane, or a submarine, or a TV set. And after the meeting they will work for five minutes and run away or go hunting."

7. "Twelve Chairs", Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov

Door opened. Ostap went into a room that could only be furnished with a creature with the imagination of a woodpecker. On the walls were postcards, dolls and Tambov tapestries. Against this motley background, from which rippled in the eyes, it was difficult to notice the little mistress of the room. She was wearing a robe, converted from a sweatshirt by Ernest Pavlovich and trimmed with mysterious fur.

Ostap immediately understood how to behave in a secular society. He closed his eyes and took a step back."

8. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

“Doc Strauss said that I have to write everything I think and remember and everything happened to me from this day. I don’t know why, but he says that it’s important so that they can see what I’m padhazhu them. I hope I'm padhazhu them because Ms. Kinnian said they can make me smart. I want to be smart. My name is Chyarly Gordon I work in Donner's picnic where Mr. Donner pays me 11 dollars a week and gives me bread or a feather whenever I want, I am 32 years old and in a month I have a birthday."

9. "Plague", Albert Camus

“By the time Rieu reached his old patient, the sky was already completely consumed by darkness. The distant hum of liberation reached the room, and the old man, still the same as always, continued to transfer his peas from pan to pan.

“And they're right to have fun. All the same, variety, - said the old man."

10. "The Three Musketeers", Alexandre Dumas

“D'Artanyan said nothing to Porthos either about his wound or about the prosecutor. Despite his youth, our Gascon was a very cautious youth. He pretended to believe everything that the boastful musketeer told him, as he was convinced that no friendship could withstand the disclosure of a secret, especially if this secret hurts his pride; besides, we always have some kind of moral superiority over those whose life we know."