“Borodino” – a work dedicated to the historical events of the war of 1812. In this poem, the story of the war is entrusted to the old soldier. Lermontov was able to show the people’s view of the war. And his lyrical hero – a soldier – speaks with a common language, with characteristic proverbs … Read more
As expected, the graduation party was opened with solemn speeches. In the gym, on the floor below, it was audible – the tables moved, the last preparations were made for the banquet. And the former tenth-formers looked no longer schooly now: girls in fashionable dresses that emphasize mature reliefs, the guys are indecently pressed, in … Read more
AP Chekhov My Life The story is from the first person. A narrator named Misail Poloznev, along with his father-architect and sister, Cleopatra, live in a provincial town. Their mother died. Father raised children in severity and, when they became adults, continues to demand complete submission. He succeeds in this with Cleopatra, but Misail came … Read more
In the rich estate of Kalez, his sixty-eight-year-old master, a successful lawyer in the recent past, is slowly dying from a chest frog. His family is looking forward to its end. He himself writes about this in a letter-diary, which he addresses to his wife and in which he sums up his life. As a … Read more
The narrator becomes ill. He is given a ticket to the southern sanatorium. For some time he wanders along the embankment “with the joy of the discoverer,” and neither mass idleness nor the monotonous sound of the sea irritates him. But after a week the narrator begins to miss something. The sea, in the noise … Read more
JR R. Fowles The Magus Nicholas Erfa was born in 1927 in the family of a brigadier general; after a brief service in the army in 1948, he entered Oxford, and a year later his parents were killed in a plane crash. He was left alone, with a small but independent annual income, bought a … Read more
William Shakespeare King Henry IV Part one The source of the plot were several anonymous plays and the chronicles of Hollshed, with whom, however, Shakespeare treated quite freely. The plays about the reign of Henry IV form, as it were, the middle part of the tetralogy, the beginning of which is “Richard II”, and the … Read more
The play takes place in three “forest cantons” – Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden, which, united in 1291, formed the basis of the Swiss Union in the struggle against the Austrian domination of the Habsburgs. It is hard for ordinary people who suffer from arbitrariness of the governors of the Austrian emperor – fohts. In the … Read more
Pierre Corneille Cinna Emilia owns a passionate desire to avenge Augusta for the death of her father, Kai Thorania, educator of the future emperor who was executed by him in the time of the triumvirate. As a revengeer, she sees her lover, Cinna; no matter how painful Emilia is to realize that, raising her hand … Read more
Summer noon. Two young philosophers, Nikanor Zubar and Koronat Khmara, having studied for ten years in the Seminary of Poltava and “having exhausted all the fount of wisdom in that temple,” make their way home through the dense forest. The storm makes them seek refuge, and they go out on a tent whose owners turn … Read more