Jean Racine Berenice The source of the tragedy was the biography of Emperor Titus in the book of the Roman historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquill’s The Life of the Twelve Caesars. The emperor Titus wants
Parents of the ten-year-old Luzhin by the end of the summer finally decide to tell their son that after returning from the village to Petersburg he will go to school. Afraid of the impending
On the Trinity, in the chambers of the noble and kind King Arthur, a brilliant nobleman is feasting. Knights lead a pleasant conversation with the ladies. As everyone knows, in those blessed times, ardent
The main heroine of the novel, Hazel – a 17-year-old young girl – has suffered for several years one of the most severe forms of cancer. By a miracle she manages to survive, but
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Once the economy of one famous church, called Theophilus, was famous in the region for its prosperity, high position and kindness. But life treated him cruelly, he lost everything and fell into disgrace with
Venichka Erofeev travels from Moscow to the regional center near Moscow called Petushki. There lives a sweetheart hero, delightful and unique, to which he travels on Fridays, buying a bag of sweets “Cornflower” as
“Vanka Zhukov, a nine-year-old boy, given three months ago to study with the shoemaker Alyakhin, did not go to bed on Christmas Eve.” He wrote a letter to his grandfather Konstantin Makarych. Vanya is
Wan was a tea-seller, and Tao, nicknamed Iron Monk, helped him. He was stealing from the owner famously. Once he caught Vanya at the count of the stolen money and drove it out. Throughout