The central heroes of the work are old man Nikitich and a young fellow. The action takes place in the taiga. The old man Nikitich, who, from “small years dragged along the taiga”, sometimes
Part 1 Ilya Ilyich Oblomov lives in one of the big houses on Gorokhovaya Street. “It was a man of about thirty-two or three of a kind, of medium height, of pleasant appearance, with
With the story “After the Ball”, created in 1903, the readers met only in 1911, after the death of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. The plot was based on events that occurred with the writer’s brother.
B. Gracian Pocket oracle, or Science of prudence The author, in strict sequence, entitled each of his aphorisms, writes the following: At this time, the personality has reached maturity. All the advantages are strung
Songs about the gods The Song of Hymire Since the gods return from hunting with prey and feast they start, and the boiler is not enough for them. And here is the god Tyr,
While all the people were jumping from one service to another, Bartholomew Korotkov, a gentle, quiet blond was firmly serving in Glavtsentrbaspispate (abbreviated to Spimat) as a clerk and served in it for 11
“Pied Piper” – the first poem Tsvetaeva, written in exile, in Prague. This is a prophecy about the fate of the Russian revolution, the romantic period of which ended and began a deadly, bureaucratic,
E. de Filippo Naples – the city of millionaires The action takes place in 1942, at the end of the second year of the war in Italy. The Jovine family, consisting of 50-year-old Gennaro
The work is preceded by the author’s introduction, which is a dedication to a certain Arabella Fermor. Pope warns Arabella that she is too serious about his creation, explaining that it pursues “the only
The narrative begins with a sad event. A wounded horse stands clearly in front of the reader. The animal regretted the miller of Berezhki village and sheltered it at home. But it was not