The poor woodcutter brought a baby with an amber necklace around his neck wrapped in a cloak with golden stars – he found it in the winter forest at the place where the star fell (other lumberjacks refused to carry the parasite home). My wife at first was against an extra mouth, but then surrendered … Read more
The narrative is conducted on behalf of the narrator, whose name is Jean. In January 1922, he looks through German newspapers to find at least one kind word about France, and suddenly stumbles upon an article signed with the initials of “ZFK”, where the words from his friend Forestier’s story are almost verbatim during the … Read more
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exupery – writer, pilot. Born Antoine de Saint-Exupery June 29, 1900 in Lyon. After the death of his father, he was brought up by his mother. The first education in the biography of Antoine Marie de Saint-Exupery was received at the Jesuit school of Le Mans. After that he studied … Read more
George Berkeley is a philosopher, known primarily for his empirical and idealistic views. Childhood and early years The son of the Englishman William Berkeley, George was born in Ireland. Despite the roots of his father, the boy considered himself Irish. In 1696, Berkeley Jr. enters the Kilkenny College. Later, he studies at Trinity College in … Read more
In 1815 Charles-Francois Míriel was a bishop in the city of Dina. He was nicknamed Bienvenu Zhelannym for good deeds. This unusual man, when he was young, had many love affairs. He led a secular life, but the Revolution has broken everything. Mr. Miriel went to Italy, whence he returned as a priest. At the … Read more
Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov is a great Russian poet and prose writer, as well as a talented artist and playwright whose works have had a tremendous impact on writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. His work is known for a wide variety of themes and motifs of the lyrics. The poet made an invaluable contribution … Read more
The city of Sulako, the capital of the Western Province of the South American Republic of Costa Rica, is located on the shores of the extensive Gulf of Placido Bay. The smooth arc of the coast of the bay on one side is bounded by the cape of Puente Mal, on the other – by … Read more
Arguing about the usefulness and importance of physical culture in the life of each person, it is necessary, first of all, to find a kind of sport for itself that would perfectly correspond not only to natural abilities, but also personal preferences. Such a sport for me was swimming, and, doing it, I, along with … Read more
I scream… but who will help, So that my soul does not die? N. Gumilev “Transformation”, in my opinion, is one of the most terrible works of world literature and the most famous short story by Franz Kafka. From the very beginning, we expect that the main conflict of the novel will be connected with … Read more
In it live two creatures, a miser and A philosopher, a vile creature and sublime. O. de Balzac. Gobsek What an ambiguous personality was able to create Honore de Balzac in his novel “Gobsek”! What a strange and, you can say, terrible fate for the hero of this story – the usurer of the Hobsek, … Read more