Hermann Hesse Beads game The action takes place in the distant future. The infallible Master of the Games and the hero of Castalia, Josef Knecht, having reached the limits of formal and substantial perfection
Начиная рассказ о приключениях своих героев, автор обсуждает два типа отображения действительности. “Историки” довольствуются списыванием с натуры, а “биографы”, к которым причисляет себя и автор, видят свою задачу в описании не людей, а нравов,
In a certain kingdom, Ivan Tsarevich lived in a certain state. He had three sisters: Marya Tsarevna, Olga Tsarevna, Anna Tsarevna. Their parents died, and before his death they ordered his son to give
Manor in the Carpathian Mountains. Here, after marrying and deciding to settle down and take up farming, a wizard settled. He is in love with his wife and promises to live like everyone else,
Holmes and I were sitting in his apartment on Baker Street and reasoned that “life is incomparably more bizarre than anything that the human imagination can create.” Looking out the window, he stated that
William Shakespeare Macbeth Location – England and Scotland. The time of action is the 11th century. The tragedy begins with a conversation between the three witches, who are discussing when they come together again
The second story of the tetralogy tells about the company of classmates: Kartashev, Kornev, Dolba, Berendya, Lario and Darcy. Friends have common interests. First, the company is divided into two “parties”, grouped around the
France, the late 20-ies. our century. The hero of the novel is a young Russian emigre, the narrative is conducted on his behalf. He’s in love with Claire. Claire is a pure Frenchwoman, she
Maxim Gorky Mother The novel takes place in Russia in the early 1900s. In the workers’ suburb live factory workers with families, and the whole life of these people is inextricably linked with the
The Alexandrian sheikh Ali Banu was very rich, but very unhappy man: the Franks took his son Kayram, and the boy had no news, and his wife died of grief. Every year, on the