An experienced field on which a paradoxical and contradictory current of one human life unfolds-the life of an indigent American in Paris at the turn of the 1920s-1930s-becomes, in essence, the entire western civilization of the twentieth century engulfed in a deadly crisis. With Henry, the hero of the book, we first encounter in cheap … Read more
In this story, Ignatyitch plays the main role. He enjoys respect in the village, he always helps at least with business, though with advice, especially he likes to help in fishing. This man lives best in the village. He constantly helps people, but there is no sincerity in his behavior. Also, he can not build … Read more
The essence of the event is dispassionately stated in the first sentence of the work. Waking up on the day of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K. discovers that he is under arrest. Instead of a maid with a familiar breakfast, an unknown gentleman in black enters into his call. In the next room there are … Read more
Actors come to the theater for a rehearsal. The Premier, as always, is late. Premier is dissatisfied with the fact that he needs to wear a chef’s hat during the play. The director exclaims in his heart: “… what do you want from me, if France has long ceased to supply us with good comedies … Read more
N. V. Gogol The Inspector In the county town, from which “three years of downloading, no state you reach,” the town governor, Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, gathers officials to inform the unpleasant news: by letter from the acquaintance, he is notified that an inspector from St. Petersburg is traveling to their city Incognito, and with a … Read more
Henri Barbusse Fire “The war is declared!” The first world. “Our company is in reserve.” “Our age, we are all of different age, our regiment is a reserve, it was consistently supplemented by reinforcements – then the personnel units, then the militiamen.” “Where are we from? From different areas, we came from everywhere.” “What did … Read more
Ivan Akindinovich Bergamotov, nicknamed “Bargamot”, “tall, fat, strong, loud”, serves as a policeman on Pushkarnaya Street, knows the customs and habits of the “gunners” who live in his area. In the pre-Easter evening, Bargamot stands on the post. He is in a bad mood, as he can get home to a plentiful table only at … Read more
The sovereign is the main subject of Machiavelli’s reasoning and the central political image he created in the treatise. Having first considered what types of states (“republics are either managed unanimously”, Chapter I), giving historical examples of their various options, Machiavelli goes on to the problem of political power and, first of all, those conditions … Read more
The action takes place in the 1850s. in the United States of America, when slavery prevailed in the South. The narration is from the first person. The hero – a young rich Englishman named Edward in search of romance comes to the US and stops in New Orleans, where for half a year he leads … Read more
The novel begins with a presentation of the hero and author to the readers. For those of you who have not read Tom Sawyer’s Adventure, the author, and in this capacity Huck himself, provides an opportunity to learn about what the protagonists are, as well as a summary of their adventures described in the previous … Read more
Night. Nurse Varka, a girl of about 13, shakes the cradle and sings a lullaby a little audibly. The child cries and does not fall asleep, Varka wants to sleep, but if she falls asleep, the owners will kill her. She dreams, as people walk along the road, and then fall and fall asleep. Then … Read more
Accompaniment (accompanian accompaniment) is a musical background to the basic Melody, which in the work is of secondary importance. Accord (italian accordo, French accord – consent) – consonance, the sounding of several (not less than three) musical tones, taken, as a rule, simultaneously. A. are divided into consonant and dissonant (see Consonance and Dissonance). Act … Read more
Jean de Lafontaine – French poet, writer, illustrious fabulist, member of the French Academy – was born in Champagne, Chateau-Thierry July 8, 1621. His father was a state forester, so the childhood of the future celebrity passed on nature. Jean received his primary education in a village school, then in a Reims college. Later I … Read more
In our times, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the prophets divorced so much that, one by one, you will inadvertently fulfill someone’s prediction. Yes, just spit somewhere – and it turns out that you spit in the prophecy! And yet the majority of mankind, consisting of normal people who prefer to live their … Read more
E. Hemingway Cat in the Rain The action takes place in Italy, in a seaside hotel. The main characters are Americans, a married couple. The husband’s name is George, the author does not mention the name of his wife. The husband lies on the bed in the hotel room and reads the book. An American … Read more
On an autumn evening, the narrator rests with his friend Auguste Dupin and remembers his investigations into “Murders on Morgue Street” and “The Mysteries of Mary Roger.” Suddenly, an old acquaintance, the prefect of the Paris police, comes to them. The clerk of the order wants to consult with Dupin about the matter of state … Read more
The novel takes place in the twenties. On the outskirts of Madrid, which is adjacent to several urban cemeteries, live Manuel Alcazar with the widowed sister Ignacia and settled with them Salvador with a young brother Enrique. Manuel works as a typewriter in the printing house, Salvador works in the workshop of a ready-made children’s … Read more
THE ENEMIES OF FORCE Opera in five acts Libretto by AN Ostrovsky, PI Kalashnikov and NF Zhokhov Characters: Ilya, a rich Moscow merchant, living In the monastery with his brother Peter, son of Elijah Dasha, wife of Peter Agafon, father of Dasha, a posad from Vladimir Stepanida, mother of Dashi, a posad from Vladimir Afimya, … Read more
1. Ursus Ursus with the wolf Homo earn a living by entertaining visitors to fairs. A stray sixty-year-old philosopher is engaged in ventriloquism, fortune-telling, healing with the help of plants, playing comedies of his own composition and playing musical instruments. Guianas wolf from the breed of canoe-dogs shows different tricks and is a friend and … Read more
Ms Pernel leaves his son’s house in great indignation. She thinks that everyone will contradict her. She calls Dorin, the maid of her granddaughter, Mariana, a loud rude, her grandson Damis – a fool. In her granddaughter, Ms Pernel sees a demon hiding in a quiet pool, Elmira accuses her daughter-in-law of squandering, Orgon’s brother-in-law, … Read more
Song Four has caused great trouble for Zhang, nicknamed the Greedy Womb In ancient times, there was a certain wealth of Shi Chun. He got it on the occasion: he helped the old river dragon to defeat the young one. For this, and received in return a myriad of treasures. Only he had nothing to … Read more
GEORGY ILLARIONOVICH MAYBORODA The genus. in 1913 Creativity of the prominent contemporary Ukrainian composer Georgy Mayboroda differs in its genre variety. He owns operas and symphonies, symphonic poems and cantatas, choirs, songs, romances. As the artist Mayboroda formed under the fruitful influence of the traditions of Russian and Ukrainian musical classics. The main feature of … Read more
Wobblers catch, clean the insides and hang out on the string. She rejoices that she has done such a procedure with her, and now she has “no superfluous thoughts, no extra feelings, no superfluous conscience”. The narrator is not aware of “what the dried-up vobla meant under the name of” superfluous “thoughts and feelings,” but … Read more
A small plane departs from Paris to London. One of the passengers, Jane Gray, is not indifferent to the young man Norman Gael, the dentist with whom she met once, is sitting in front of her. During the flight, Lady Horbury summons her maid from another salon. In the cabin a bee flies, and one … Read more
“It will not happen!” – said Simeon Weslav, a famous guest of Novgorod, his brother, a newcomer to the hundredth fellow Yuri Gostinny. Do not shine to the two suns in the sky! I do not want to leave my best pearl in the muddy Volkhov, so that I give Olga, my daughter, to someone … Read more
Krasheninnikov. Ivan Semenovich is a school superintendent who always steals a school truck for economic needs. Natalia Pavlovna is a class teacher. Vyacheslav Petrovich – chief engineer, head of practice. Dmitry Alexandrovich – foreman of locksmiths, looks like a Spaniard. Lagutin is a mechanic, an unpleasant type, a rude, dragging out details and driving. Zina … Read more
Vladimir Afanasievich Obruchev (September 28 (October 10) 1863, Klephenino village, Tver Province – June 19, 1956, Moscow) – Russian geologist, paleontologist, geographer, science fiction writer (author of the famous novels “Sannikov Land” and “Plutonium”), advisor, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929), Hero of Socialist Labor (1945), laureate of the Stalin Prize (1941, 1950). … Read more
The plot is based on a true event – a mutiny in the English brig “Bounty.” The vast waters of the Pacific Ocean. The handsome “Blossom” swiftly flies through the waves. The third mate Adam Parsel admires the ship, but when he sees the exhausted sailors, he becomes ashamed of the fact that he is … Read more
The revenge in Western Europe was captured by Muslim immigrants. The Shariah is legalized. Catholic churches are destroyed and indulged. The French, who did not accept Islam, live in the ghetto. Notre-Dame Cathedral was turned into Al-Franconi mosque. Catholic Church. By the time the Muslim expansion began, it had become a “parody of itself,” a … Read more
The play takes place in a small German town in the first half of the last century. In the house of the joiner Anton, known for his diligence and thrift, two women, mother and daughter. They began the morning with the fitting and discussion of the old wedding dress, and ended up talking about the … Read more
Kazakov Yu. P. Quiet morning Early in the morning, when it was still dark in the hut, and the mother did not milk the cow, Yashka got up, found his old trousers and shirt, ate bread with milk, and took the fishing rods out of the hut. He accumulated worms and ran to the shed, … Read more
Dmitri Pavlovich Sanin (landowner fifty-two years old) sorts out the old letters in the table. Unexpectedly, he finds a case with a pomegranate cross and is immersed in memories. I of . In the summer of 1840 the young Sanin returned to Russia from Italy. He planned a trip to stay one day in Frankfurt, … Read more
Roy Strang is in a coma, but his mind is full of memories. Some are more real – about the life of the Edinburgh outskirts – and passed down in a grotesquely vulgar, stagnant language. Others – the fantasy of hunting the African stork marabu – are told in the bright, imaginative language of an … Read more
Jane Eyre lost her parents early and now she lived with her aunt, Mrs. Reed. Her life was not sugar. The fact is that Mrs. Reed was not her own aunt, but only a widow of her mother’s brother. About the parents of the girl, she was of the lowest opinion, and how else, because … Read more
The story of Asya Turgenev was written in 1857. In it the author tells about the tragic love of a 25-year-old man of the world and a 17-year-old village girl. The story is written in the first person, a certain N. N., who recalls the love story that happened to him during his youth. Main … Read more
Sergei Pavlovich Zalygin (November 23 (December 6) 1913 – April 19, 2000) – Russian Soviet writer. Editor of the journal “New World”, on his initiative in the USSR in 1988, again began to print AI Solzhenitsyn. Zalygin was born on December 6, 1913 (November 23 in the old style) in the village of Durasovka Sterlitamak … Read more
On stage is an ordinary theater room with three walls, a window and a door. The Mystics of both sexes are sitting at the table with a concentrated look in their coats and fashionable dresses. Pierrot is sitting at the window in a white robe. Mystics are waiting for the arrival of Death, Pierrot awaits … Read more
ABESAL AND ETERI Opera in four acts (five scenes) Libretto by P. Mirianashvili Characters: Abio, King of Kartalinia Abesalom, his heir Natela, the queen, mother of Abesalom Marika, sister of Abesaloma Eteri, the orphan Stepmother Eteri Murman, the vizier of Abesalom Naana, mother of Murman Tandarukh, military leader Guest (the first sang) Court Bass Tenor … Read more
This is a tragedy with a happy ending. At the dramatic competitions in Athens there was a custom: every poet represented a “trilogy”, three tragedies, sometimes even picking up each other on topics (like Aeschylus), and after them, to discharge a gloomy mood – “satire drama,” where the characters and action were too, from myths, … Read more
For the murder of a farmer in Houston, Mink Snoups was sentenced to life imprisonment in the prison prison of Parchment, but he did not regret a moment that he then pulled the trigger. Houston deserved death – and not by the fact that, according to the verdict of Bill Warner, Mink spent thirty-seven days … Read more
Before reading this entertaining and instructive tale, it would not hurt to learn about the man who became the “father” of Cipollino. This is Italian Gianni Rodari, who was known not only in his native country, but also abroad, as an excellent journalist and author of works for children. Rodari, in addition to the work … Read more
Hesiod Theogony, or On the origin of the gods Everybody knows: Greek mythology is first and foremost a lot of names. This is for us; and for the Greeks themselves there were even more. Almost every town or village had its own local deities; and even about those who were common, in every city they … Read more
The action takes place in the provincial town, in the house of the Prozorovs. Irina, the youngest of the three sisters of the Prozorovs, is twenty years old. “It’s sunny and fun in the yard,” and a table is set in the hall, waiting for the guests-officers of the artillery battery quartered in the city … Read more
Yu. Slovakian Maria Stewart Hall in the palace Holy Rood. The queen’s page runs in. He says there are riots in the city. Some unfamiliar man at the head of the crowd – mummers, masks, dancers with bells, people in black hoods – threatened, predicted and urged the people not to obey the queen. The … Read more
MN Zagoskin Yuri Miloslavsky, or Russian in 1612 Never before had Russia been in such a distressed situation as at the beginning of the 17th century: external enemies, civil strife, troubles of the boyars threatened to ruin the Russian land. Moscow is dominated by the Polish King Sigismund, whose troops oppress and plunder the unfortunate … Read more
The old, fat, sickly man, sitting in someone else’s house, in someone else’s bedroom, in someone else’s chair, and looking at his body with bewilderment, listens to his feelings, tries hard and can not quite master thoughts in his head: “Fools!” They think that, telling me about the attempt on my life, telling me the … Read more
Lizards discuss that they are preparing to meet noble guests in a magical hill. When the hill opened, an old forest fairy came out of it, which wore an amber heart on its forehead. She asked the kozodoy to blow up invitations: to a big ball of all, even people, if they talk in a … Read more
He was born in the village of Konstantinovo Ryazan province, in a peasant family. Since childhood, he was brought up from his grandfather by his mother, a man of enterprising and prosperous, a connoisseur of church books. He graduated from a four-grade rural school, then a church and a school in Spas-Klepik. In 1912 Yesenin … Read more
Every evening at the club “Shamrock” dances were arranged for the workers of the cardboard factory. Here came factory workers, bosom friends Anna and Maggie. Anna came with her boyfriend and took Maggie with her, an inconspicuous ugly woman with dull eyes, who always warmed the wall. One day, Maggie appeared in a club with … Read more
The dacha season is over, and Vasily Petrovich Bachey with his sons Petya and Pavlik was returning to Odessa. Petya for the last time looked around the endless marine space, glowing with a gentle blue glow. The following lines came to mind: “The lonely sail grows white / In the fog of the blue sea…” … Read more