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. An indicator of the popularity of the book is its repeated screen versions both in feature films and in cartoons. In … Read more
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 Academic Society,” is published in 1887. Five years later, in 1892, the work “Chestnut” by Chekhov was published with a … Read more
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 penal servitude. Initially, Dostoevsky was going to write the novel “Crime and Punishment” in the form of a confession, but in … Read more
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 to deprive the Poles of the possibility of considering these lands their own. The estates of large landowners were confiscated into … Read more
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 you from what kind of family?” And came from where? ” Word for word, they met, the frog planted a mouse … Read more
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 which Paris is easily discerned with its mores, quirks, and also quite real inhabitants. From 1500000003200001 the Sultan Mangogul ruled the … Read more
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 that the answers to the condemned play are contained in Critic (meaning the comedy in one act “Criticism of the School … Read more
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 life. Poets of the “Silver Age” in their poems often confessed their love for this queen of Russian poetry. In the … Read more
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 “capital” house near Fontanka. Along the long corridor are the doors of the rooms for the tenants; The hero himself is … Read more
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 was a rare gift of hope, a romantic fuse, I have not met him again. “ Nick Carraway belongs to the … Read more