Edgar Poe’s story “The Fall of the House of Ushers,” a brief summary of which we will consider, is written in 1839. The work of this universal writer includes short stories, poems, a novel,
Lyudmila expects her lover from a military campaign. Standing at the crossroads, the girl watches as the surviving warriors pass by her, but there is no favorite among them. Lyudmila decides that her beloved
VP Kataev Diamond my crown This book is not a novel, not a story, not a lyric diary and not a memoir. Chronological connections are replaced here by associative, and the search for beauty
The poem is written in the first person. A student at Moscow University Sashka Polezhaev, a friend, goes to St. Petersburg to visit his uncle. Do you remember how Pushkin at the beginning of
John Gay Opera of the Beggar In the introduction, the author – Beggar – says that if poverty is a patent for poetry, then no one doubts that he is a poet. He is
Sisters Dorothea and Celia, left without their parents, lived in the house of their uncle-guardian, Mr. Brooke. The sisters were almost equally good-looking, but they differed in character: Dorothea was serious and devout, Celia
Ikhara Saikaku The story of the love affairs of a lonely woman Sages in antiquity said that a beauty is a sword that cuts off life. Flowers of the heart are showered, and by
In a nutshell: The teacher’s wife is interested in her husband’s friend, the actor, and is going to leave with him. The teacher stops them, and the woman realizes that her husband is a
C. P. Snows Corridors of power The action of the novel by C. P. Snow “Corridors of Power” occurs in Great Britain in 1955-1958. The protagonist of the novel is a young Conservative politician
In the center of the poetic narrative is the touching love story of the shepherd and hunter Afrique and the nymph of Menzola. We learn that in times immemorial in Fiesole, women especially honored