Lawrence Stern Sentimental journey through France and Italy Deciding to make a trip to France and Italy, an Englishman with Shakespeare’s name Yorick landed in Calais. He reflects on travel and travelers, dividing them into different categories. He attributes himself to the category of “sensitive travelers”. A monk comes to Yorik with a request to … Read more
Denis Veras History of Sevarambs In the preface to the History of Sevarambs, the author notes that this book is not the fruit of a rich fantasy, but the true notes of Captain Silenus. This is confirmed not only by the doctor’s testimony, to which the captain, when he died, gave the main work of … Read more
Main characters: Savel Prokofievich Dikoy – a merchant, a significant person in the city. Boris Grigoryevich is his nephew, an educated young man. Marfa Ignatyevna Kabanova – a widow, rich merchant. Tikhon Ivanovich Kabanov is her son. Katerina is his wife. Varvara is the sister of Tikhon Kabanov. Kuligin is a self-taught watchmaker looking for … Read more
Gustav Meyrink Golem Prague, the beginning of the century. The narration is from the first person. The hero is not sleeping, or awake. Moonlight falls in the foothold of his bed. The hero feels that his sleeping body is in bed, and “the feelings are separated from the body and do not depend on him … Read more
BA Pilniak The Tale of the Unexplored Moon In the foreword the author emphasizes that the reason for writing this work was not the death of MV Frunze, as many think, but simply the desire to reflect. Readers do not need to search in the stories of genuine facts and living persons. Early in the … Read more
The events of the play unfold in Egypt, in the city of Alexandria, at the end of the reign of the XIII dynasty, in 48 BC. The legions of Caesar enter Egypt. In the city of panic. The queen Cleopatra, a sixteen-year-old girl, disappeared. She can not be found anywhere. At this time Julius Caesar, … Read more
T. Tolstaya was in fact recognized as one of the most brilliant authors of the new literary generation. To date, the volume written about Tolstoy is several times greater than the volume of her prose. It is interesting that Tolstoy struck readers not with the content of their stories, but with the exquisite complexity and … Read more
About the work The comedy of Moliere “The philistine in the nobility” was written in 1670. The work was created within the literary realism direction. In the comedy “The Bourgeois in the Nobility” the author ridicules the typical bourgeois – the ignorant Mr. Jourdain, who tried to join the “upper class”, but he could only … Read more
MI Tsvetaeva The Story of Sonia “The Tale of Sonechka” tells about the most romantic period in the biography of Marina Tsvetaeva – about her Moscow life in 1919 – 1920. in Borisoglebsky Lane. This is the time of uncertainty (her husband has no information from whites for a long time), poverty (her daughter – … Read more
The old man is sitting in the wheelchair next to the billboard. He sees the Student talking to the Milkmaid and telling her that on the eve of rescuing people from the rubble of the collapsed building. The old man hears the Student’s words, but does not see the Milkmaid, for she is a vision. … Read more