The story takes place in the south of the USA in the state of Georgia. The head of the family, Bailey wants to take her children, the eight-year-old son John, the daughter of June, the wife with the baby and her mother to Florida. But Bailey’s mother, the grandmother of the children, is trying to … Read more
SOLD BRIDE Comic opera in three acts Libretto by K. Sabina (Russian text by S. Mikhalkov) Characters: Krushin, the peasant Lyudmila, his wife Mazhenka, their daughter Micha, a rich peasant Gata, his wife Vasek, their son Enik, son of Miha from his first marriage Ketsal, village matchmaker Director of the circus Esmeralda, a comedian Indian, … Read more
Actors of the book are the collectors of the anasha, a young man banished from the theological seminary for heresy, ex-convicts, “kulaks.” In the novel “Scaffolding” we can distinguish three main story lines related to the general problems. The first line is the fate of a pair of wolves – Akbar and Tashchaynara. Wolves were … Read more
GG Marquez, no one writes to the Colonel. The action takes place in Colombia in 1956, when there was a fierce struggle between political groups in the country and a climate of violence and terror reigned. On the outskirts of a small provincial town in a house covered with palm leaves, with peeling walls, the … Read more
René, a young man of a noble family, settles in a French colony in the wilds of Louisiana, among the Native American tribe of nazes. His past is shrouded in mystery. Rene’s penchant for melancholy makes him avoid the people’s society. The only exception is his foster father, the blind old man Shaktas, and the … Read more
I. S. Turgenev hunter Notes: Forest and Steppe “Hunting with a gun and a dog is beautiful in itself, – says the author of” Notes “His love of nature and freedom, and it is transmitted to the reader, talented, original paintings cleaned and inspire the soul.. Here the reader, together with the hunter, leaves in … Read more
While waiting for the ferry, the grandfather Arkhip and Lyonka lay in the shade from the shore cliff and looked at the waves of the Kuban River. Lyonka dozed off, and his grandfather, feeling a pain in his chest, could not fall asleep. Lyonka was a small, frail boy of about ten, in his rags, … Read more
Devoting his story to the Marquise de Pompadour, whom Voltaire calls the Sultan of Sheraa, the writer himself appears under the name of the poet Saadi, the classic of oriental literature. In the work the author uses elements so popular in the XVIII century. genre of travel, as well as fiction of Persian and Arabian … Read more
Ode is a lyrical genre. In it, according to Trediakovsky, “it is described: matter is noble, important, rarely – tender and pleasant in speeches of very pious and magnificent.” Its origins are the choral lyrics of the ancient Greeks. Created solemn odes, glorifying a great event or a great hero; anacreontic – by the name … Read more
Maxim Gorky Vorobyoshko Sparrows are just like people’s: adult sparrows and sparrows are boring and talk about everything, as in books it is written, and young people live by their own minds. Once upon a time there was a yellow-throated sparrow, his name was Pudik, and he lived above the window of the bathhouse, behind … Read more