A little bear cub of Neva is born in late March. His mother, an old bear, teaches the baby how to get food, how to avoid danger. Not sparing herself, the mother protects her cub. The calm, carefree life of Neveu interrupts the meeting with the hunter Challoner, who kills the bear for meat and … Read more
In the preface to his “Character”, the author acknowledges that the purpose of the book is an attempt to draw attention to the shortcomings of society, “made from nature”, with the aim of correcting them. In each of the 16 chapters, he expresses his “characters” in strict sequence, where he writes the following: “Everything has … Read more
Once in the spring I was sitting in the Mariinsky Park and reading Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Sister Galya sat next to her and also read. Her summer hat with green ribbons lay on a bench. The wind moved the tapes, Galya was shortsighted, very trusting, and it was almost impossible to get her out of … Read more
At the time of the Thirty Years’ War in Graubünden, a century ago joined Valtellin, the head of the Catholic party, the influential patrician Pompeo Plant, was convicted of collusion with Austria-Spain. With the assistance of the young Protestant pastor Yurga Yonacha, the court sentences Plant to exile and deprives civil and property rights. Former … Read more
The story of Yuri Kazakov “On the Road” is devoted to the theme of social changes in the village in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century. The main characters of the story are Ilya Snegirev and his mother. Ilya Snegirev was born in the village and worked in the collective farm as a … Read more
The protagonist of the novel is the aristocrat des Essent, who is disgusted with the world around him, who lives alone in a country house and surrenders to refined and perverted pleasures. Introduction In the castle Lurp preserved several portraits of representatives of the family Floresac des Esentes. These were portraits of mighty, harsh raytars … Read more
The boy and his grandfather lived on a forest cordon. There were three women on the cordon: grandmother, aunt Bekey – the grandfather’s daughter and the wife of the chief person in the cordon, the policeman Orozkul, and also the wife of the ancillary worker Seydakhmat. Aunt Bekey is the most unhappy woman in the … Read more
In the epic is told about the military exploits of Elijah. He departs from the house, from the village of Karacharovo, which is near Murom, to the capital city of Kiev to serve to Prince Vladimir. On the way, Ilya makes her first feat. At Chernigov, he smashes the enemy army, besieged the city. Does … Read more
JG Byron The Corsair The color of “Giaura” painted by contrasts contrasts the following Byron’s work of the “eastern” cycle – the more extensive poem “The Corsair” written with heroic couplets. In a short prosaic introduction to the poem dedicated to the writer’s fellow author and fellow thinker Thomas Moore, the author cautions against the … Read more
Longtime allies Rome and Alba entered the war with each other. So far, only small skirmishes have occurred between the enemy armies, but now, when the Albanian army is standing at the walls of Rome, a decisive battle must take place. The heart of Sabina, the wife of the noble Roman Horace, is filled with … Read more