G. H. Andersen Nightingale Behind the garden of the Chinese emperor was a forest, and in the woods there lived a nightingale who sang so well that even a poor fisherman forgot about his
KG Paustovsky Cat of the thief We came in despair. We did not know how to catch this red cat. He robbed us every night. He was so cleverly hiding that none of us
Charles Dickens Cold House Childhood Esther Summerston takes place in Windsor, in her godmother’s house, Miss Barberi. The girl feels lonely and often sentences, addressing her best friend, a ruddy doll: “You know perfectly
The protagonist of the narrative – Private Robert Lee Pruit – was born and spent his childhood in the mines in Garlan village, which in the thirties became known throughout America thanks to a
The theme of the last war always found and continues to find its reflection in modern poetry, and every poet in his own way comprehends and experiences it, giving birth to images in which
Beginning of the story of how God gave the victory to the Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich for the Don over the perverse Mamai and how the Orthodox Christianity praised the Russian land as the
In one village, near the Bludov Marsh, near the city of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, two children were orphaned. Their mother died of illness, his father died in the Patriotic War. In the village, the children were
Alexander Green Scarlet Sails Longren, a man reserved and unsociable, lived by making and selling models of sailboats and steamships. The countrymen did not really like the former sailor, especially after one incident. Somehow
L. N. Tolstoy Morning of the landlord Prince Nekhlyudov was nineteen years old when, from the third year of university, he came to summer vacations to his village and one stayed there all summer.
GI Uspensky Morals Rasteryaevoy Street In the city of T. on the squalid and dirty Rasteriaev street there are many poor people: small officials, petty bourgeois, craftsmen. Among them – a young pistol master