L. de Gongora Polyphemus and Galatea The abundant island of Sicily, the “horn of Bacchus, the garden of Pomona” is beautiful, its fertile fields are golden, like the white wool of sheep grazing on mountain slopes. But there is a horrifying place on it, “a shelter for a terrible night,” where there is always darkness. … Read more
The action takes place in Moscow. The mother of the protagonist, thirty-seven-year-old engineer Viktor Dmitriev, Ksenia Feodorovna is seriously ill, she has cancer, but she herself believes that she has a peptic ulcer. After the operation, she is sent home. The outcome is clear, but she alone believes that the matter is on the mend. … Read more
The article is devoted to Ostrovsky’s drama “The Thunderstorm” At the beginning of the article Dobrolyubov writes that “Ostrovsky has a deep understanding of Russian life.” He then analyzes the article about Ostrovsky by other critics, writes that there is “no direct view of things” in them. Then Dobrolyubov compares the “Storm” with the dramatic … Read more
First a list of actors with detailed characteristics. Here are some of these individuals and characteristics. Pavel Nikolaevich Yeletsky, 32 years old. Petersburg official, not clever. A man is not evil, but without a heart. Olga Petrovna Yeletskaya, born Corina, his wife, 21 years old. A kind, gentle creature. Vasily Semyonitch Kuzovkin, a nobleman, who … Read more
Action 1 Phenomenon 1 Morning, living room. Lisa wakes up in her chair. Sophia did not let her go to sleep the day before, because she was waiting for Molchalin, and Lisa had to watch out for them not to be found together. Sophia asks how much time, and to convince her that it is … Read more
Distant future. D-503, a talented engineer, the builder of the spacecraft Integral, writes notes for posterity, tells them about “the highest peaks in human history” – the life of the United State and its head the Benefactor. The title of the manuscript is “We”. The D-503 admires the fact that citizens of the United State, … Read more
When Yurin Uncle Nikolai Nikolayevich moved to Petersburg, other relatives, Gromeko, took care of him, who was left an orphan in ten years, in the house of which there were interesting people at the Sivtsev Vrazhka, and where the atmosphere of the professorial family quite contributed to the development of the Jurassic talents. The daughter … Read more
N. M. Karamzin The Island of Bornholm From England to Russia A hero, a young man, talks about his travels through foreign lands. We do not know his name or age. We only know that England was the extreme limit of his journey, where he told himself that it was time to return to the … Read more
The novel “Rob Roy” gives a broad and complex picture of Scottish and English public relations of the early XVIII century. Action develops quickly, more lively than in other novels of Walter Scott. The protagonist, Francis Osbaldiston, was suddenly recalled from Bordeaux to his father on an important matter. Arriving in London, a twenty-year-old young … Read more
SA Esenin Country of scoundrels The action takes place in the Urals in 1919. The protagonist of the poem is the bandit Nomah, a romantic character, an anarchist rebel who hates “all those who grow fat on Marx.” He went once behind the revolution, hoping that it would bring liberation to the whole human race, … Read more