The tale “The Cat in Boots,” a brief summary of which can be useful to schoolchildren in the lessons of foreign literature, is one of the most famous works of the writer Sh. Perrault.
The idea of creating the work came to AP Chekhov, when the familiar artist told him the case of a dog that got into the circus. The story, which had the original name “In
The novel of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment” was written in 1866. The idea of the work appeared in the writer as far back as 1859, when he was serving a sentence in
The action takes place in the vicinity of the cities of Vilna and Grodno, in estates and villages located above the Neman. Recently, in 1863, the January uprising was suppressed. The tsarist government seeks
In the hot summer afternoon the mouse prince Krokhobor drank water from the swamp and met the frog king of Vzdulomord there. He turned to him, as Homer turned to Odysseus: “Wanderer, who are
Denis Diderot Immodest treasures The action of this work, saturated in accordance with the literary fashion of the era of pseudo-eastern color, takes place in Africa, in the capital of the Congo-Banze empire, in
Molière School of Wives The play is preceded by the dedication of Henrietta of England, the wife of the brother of the king, the official patron of the troupe. The author’s foreword informs readers
When I mention the name of Anna Akhmatova, I have the image of a regal lady, mistress of the muses. This woman has lived a great, dramatic and at the same time a happy
Makar Alekseevich Devushkin is a titular counselor for forty-seven years, rewriting for a small salary of paper in one of the St. Petersburg departments. He has just moved to a new apartment in the
F. S. Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby “If you measure a person with her ability to show herself, then in Gatsby was something truly magnificent, some heightened sensitivity to all the promises of life… It