“Life is a story told by a cretin, full of noise and fury, but devoid of meaning.” To retell this story differently from what it was originally told means to try to tell a very different story, except that the people in it will have the same names, they will be bound by the same … Read more
Watson (Dr. Watson, Var. Watson) is a constant companion of Sherlock Holmes. A doctor by training, a military surgeon who graduated from the University of London in 1878, serves as a chronicler of Holmes’s deeds. During the Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), a rifle bullet smashed his shoulder. By his own admission, he could not stand any … Read more
The hero of the novel Vladimir Sanin lived for a long time outside the family, which is probably why he easily mastered the threads of all the collisions that he noticed in his home and in a familiar city. Sister Sanina, the beautiful Lida, “a delicate and charming tangle of elegant tenderness and dexterous power,” … Read more
Once upon a time in a small town on the shores of the Mediterranean, the carpenter Giuseppe gives his friend Carlo the organ-grinder a talking log, which, you see, does not want to be heaped. In a poor little room under the stairs, where even the hearth and that was painted on a piece of … Read more
I. S. Turgenev Nahlebnik First a list of actors with detailed characteristics. Here are some of these individuals and characteristics. Pavel Nikolaevich Yeletsky, 32 years old. Petersburg official, not clever. A man is not evil, but without a heart. Olga Petrovna Yeletskaya, born Corina, his wife, 21 years old. A kind, gentle creature. Vasily Semyonitch … Read more
Nikolai Irteniev is sixteen years old. He is preparing for the entrance exams, and his soul is filled with dreams and thoughts about his further life purpose. In a separate notebook a young man writes down all the duties that are necessary for his moral perfection. In a passionate environment, their house is visited by … Read more
Yashka woke up when the sleepy roosters screamed, it was dark, his mother did not milk the cow and the shepherd did not drive the herd into the meadows. After eating milk and bread, the boy took the fishing pole and went to the porch. The village was still asleep. Having accumulated a full can, … Read more
Literature on the “Duke” is extremely large. However, none of the researchers of this epic did not notice humor and satire in it, and the question of ideological and political tendencies was not raised at all. All the usual questions were raised about the epic in general, and the most contradictory and one-by-one answers were … Read more
Krylov’s fable “The Pig Under the Oak” is distinguished by penetrating morality, which most accurately conveys the milestones of the time in which its author lived. Nevertheless, before you begin to analyze its meaning, you need to familiarize yourself with the textual content of the work. “A pig under an oak” is a fable, in … Read more
IG Chigrinov Weeping of the quail In early August 1941, Rodion Chubar, chairman of the Veremeykovsky collective farm, convened the last general meeting. The Germans were advancing, and it was necessary, according to Stalin’s directive, to steal a collective herd far away, so that the enemy would not get it. The drivers were the deputy … Read more