The play takes place in Athens. The ruler of Athens is Theseus. On the queen of the Amazon tribe, Ippolite, Theseus wants to marry. The wedding of the Queen of Amazons Hippolyta and the
In the first novel in this series, Zola talks about the origins of the Rugon family and the Makkarov family, as well as the emergence of the Second Empire in France, which provided great
A. Pogorelsky Black hen, or Underground inhabitants Forty years ago, in St. Petersburg on Vasilievsky Island, there lived a male housekeeper. Among the thirty or forty children who studied in that boarding house, there
Maxim Gorky The case of Evseiikoy The little boy Yevseika is a bit on the beach. With boredom fell asleep and fell into the water. He was not scared. Dived and pulled the bottom.
Charles Dickens The Adventures of Oliver Twist Oliver Twist was born in a workhouse. His mother had only one glance at him and died; before the boy was nine years old, he could not
At the dawn, horses are driven from the bar horse yard. From the entire herd stands a serious, pensive-looking old piebald gelding. He does not show impatience, like all other horses, dutifully waits until
Sh. De Coster The Legend of Eulenspiegel The book is preceded by the “Foreword of the Owl”, which gives a double interpretation of the name “Ulenspiegel”. According to one version it means “I am
Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince Winter has come, but the Swallow has decided to stay with the Prince and told him, already blind, about Egypt, where the bird so sought. After the Swallowtail leaflet
In the last days of May, the soldiers and the marquee of the Paris battalion “Red Hat” stumble into the Sodreysk forest to the Breton peasant woman with three children – a baby girl
AP Platonov Fro The main heroine of the work is a twenty-year-old girl Frosya, daughter of a railwayman. Her husband left far and long. Frosya is very sad about him, life loses for her