The legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamm Gudzak, their adventures of the brave, amusing and glorious in Flanders and other countries. The book is preceded by the “Foreword of the Owl”, which gives a double interpretation of the name “Ulenspiegel”. According to one version it means “I am your mirror”, on the other – “an owl … Read more
AI Solzhenitsyn One day of Ivan Denisovich The peasant and front-line soldier Ivan Denisovich Shukhov turned out to be a “state criminal”, a “spy” and got into one of Stalin’s camps, like millions of Soviet people, guilty without conviction at the time of the “personality cult” and mass repressions. He left home on June 23, … Read more
Our whole life is owned by two demons, to which weak human hearts are subordinated. One of them is called Love, and the second – Ambition. Possessions of the second are wider – in them, at times, love is included. This can be found many examples, but in the fable it will be a question … Read more
In the Zemsky hospital there is a reception. The doctor left to marry, that’s why the patient receives a paramedic named Kuryatin. He is about forty years old, dressed simply and untidy. In the hand the paramedic is holding a foul-smelling cigar. Here came the sexton Vonmiglasov, brought the prosphora. The paramedic asked what had … Read more
Tamir and Selim. Otd. ed. St. Petersburg. 1750. Written on the “verbal decree” of Elizabeth, who ordered “the professors Trediakovsky and Lomonosov to compose according to the tragedy.” The report of the “one-third of the May” 1750 Lomonosov pointed out that “the tragedy began to compose”, and in the next report mentions that finished “Tamir … Read more
The work is preceded by the preface of the publisher, reminiscent of the heroes of previously published novels. “Pamela” – a certificate of the benefits of virtue; “Clarissa” is an instruction to those parents who by unreasonable coercion produce evil. Finally, “Grandison” is “the deeds of the elegant soul”, unswervingly following the firm moral rules … Read more
LA Seneca Fiest The heroes of this tragedy are two evil czars from the city of Argos, Atreus and Fiest. The son of this Atreus was the famous leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War, Agamemnon, the one killed by his wife Clytemnestra, and her son, Orestes, killed her for this (and Aeschylus wrote … Read more
This book is aimed at making a person more organized, teaching him to correctly manage his time, effectively setting goals and objectives, the ability to prioritize, not to overwork from excessive workload. This book is aimed at making a person more organized, teaching him to correctly manage his time, effectively setting goals and objectives, the … Read more
Having defeated a barely passable forest thicket, two young men came to the shore of a dazzlingly shining mountain lake. The first of the travelers is the stalwart strongman and the bouncer Harry March, noticing the admiration of his comrade, said that in comparison with the Great Lakes of Canada this is supposed to be … Read more
NV Gogol Evenings on a farm near Dikanka “Evenings…”, consisting of 8 stories, are divided into exactly 2 parts, and each is preceded by the foreword of the imaginary publisher. In the first, describing his farm, he gives the characteristics of some particularly colorful inhabitants of Dikanka that they woo in the evenings in the … Read more