NA Dobrolyubov Ray of Light in the Dark Kingdom The article is devoted to Ostrovsky’s drama The Storm At the beginning of the article Dobrolyubov writes that “Ostrovsky has a deep understanding of Russian life.” He then analyzes the article about Ostrovsky by other critics, writes that there is “no direct view of things” in … Read more
G. G. Marquez Hundred Years of Solitude The founders of the genus Buendía José Arcadio and Ursula were cousins and sisters. Parents were afraid that they would give birth to a child with a pig’s tail. Ursula knows about the danger of incestuous marriage, and José Arcadio does not want to take into account such … Read more
Trade and business life is boiling in all the streets and alleys of China Town, when on a bright September morning Andrei Dmitriyevich Paltusov, who returned to Moscow recently, a thirty-five-year-old nobleman of a notable and peculiar appearance, visits the bank on Ilyinka and meets his old friend Evgraf Petrovich there. After talking about how … Read more
Little Sasha once saw in the office of his father a portrait of a young general and decided to ask who it was. Father answered that this man is his grandfather. But he did not talk about him in detail. Thus begins Nekrasov’s poem “Grandfather Sasha after that ran to his mother and began to … Read more
Eugene Scribe Water glass, or Consequences and causes Early 18th century. England, along with Austria, Prussia and other countries, leads an endless and exhausting war for the Spanish inheritance against the Franco-Spanish coalition. England is ruled by a weak-willed and compliant Queen Anne, who does not make decisions without consulting with those around her. In … Read more
Events take place in the first half of the 19th century, in the fictional Kalinove town of Volga. The first action is in a public garden on the high bank of the Volga. A local self-taught mechanic, Kuligin, talks with young people – Kudryash, the clerk of the rich merchant Dikoy, and the philistine Shapkin … Read more
At six years old the boy read about how a boa constrictor swallows his victim, and painted a snake that swallowed an elephant. It was a drawing of a boa constrictor outside, but adults claimed that it was a hat. Adults always need to explain everything, so the boy made another drawing – boa constrictor … Read more
The action takes place in New England on the farm of Effraim Cabot in 1850. In the spring, the old Cabot unexpectedly leaves somewhere, leaving the farm for sons – the elders, Simeon and Peter, and Ebin, born in a second marriage. Cabot is a rough, stern man, his sons are afraid and secretly hating … Read more
Yukio Mishima could have died at the age of five, but survived. He could become a goldsmith, but he did not. He could have been made a kamikaze, but he was fortunate enough to slip from the army. He could do many things, but he chose to become an extraordinary person. Something such pressed on … Read more
Mednyk Christopher Sly falls asleep drunken sleep at the threshold of the inn. The lord rejoins with the huntsmen and servants and, finding the sleeper, decides to play a joke with him. His servants include Sli in a luxurious bed, washed in fragrant water, dress in an expensive dress. When Sly wakes up, he is … Read more