In Sicily in the city of Messina, the play takes place. To Governor Leonato the messenger reports that he entered the city after the war. Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, with his retinue. The messenger tells of the battle and talks about the young noble Florentine Claudio, who distinguished himself on the battlefield. The Prince … Read more
E. Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea “The old man was fishing all alone on his boat in the Gulf Stream, and for eighty-four days he went to sea and did not catch a single fish.” The first forty days with him was a boy, but day after day he did not bring a … Read more
In the introduction, the author remembers the musician Navadagu, who once sang a song about Hiawatha in ancient times: “Of his wondrous birth, / About his great life: / How fasted and prayed / How did Hiawatha work, / That his people were happy / he went to the good and the truth. “ The … Read more
Every moralizing work contains morality: the basic idea that the author wanted to convey to us. Krylov’s fable “Dragonfly and Ant” also contains it. She, as is proper in such works, is at the very end. And before it unfolds whole events in front of the readers, showing in the person of an ant and … Read more
Salbiarg, daughter of Kari, becomes the wife of Ulva, nicknamed Kveldulv (“Evening Wolf”). They have two sons – Thorolf and Grim. Harald, nicknamed Shaggy defeated the neighboring konungs and became the sole king of Norway. At his insistence, Kveldulv sends his son Thorolf to him; Kveldulv himself believes that Harald will do a lot of … Read more
Before the reader – “a recent story, compiled on the basis of genuine letters of its participants.” Young Edmond R ***, the son of a large-scale well-to-do peasant, is taken to the city and placed as pupils to the artist, Mr. Parangon. The shyness of the young villager is called in the city untidy, his … Read more
F. M. Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov The action takes place in the provincial town of Skotoprigonjevsk in the 1870s. In the monastery, in the skete of the famous old man Zosima, the famous ascetic and healer, Karamazovs – father Fyodor Pavlovich and sons – the elder Dmitri and the middle Ivan – gather to find … Read more
In the late 1990s, Trifonov was called the master of doom. In the last decade, interest in his work has faded. But this is the fate of true art, that it breaks through both censorship slingshots, and through unjust oblivion and indifference. In 1999, the first international conference dedicated to the work of Yu. Trifonov, … Read more
Bylins from ancient times glorified the courage and bravery of soldiers, patriotism and love for the homeland. This oral folk art reflected the life of Ancient Rus of the IX-XIII centuries. We come close to the theme “Bylina” Sadko “: a summary, the main characters.” Here, the guslar appears as a true patriot of his … Read more
In the fantastic story tells of a strange story that occurred with an ordinary Belorussian inhabitant Lene Tikhomirov. Until then, there had been no miraculous events at Lyubimov, which was under the wet mountain, but, on the contrary, there was a large Komsomol and intellectual stratum and life was completely socialist under the guidance of … Read more