The work of Handke is written in the first person. We still do not recognize the name of the narrator. There are not many external events in the story. It represents a free chronicle of several days, which are marked for the hero by a severe spiritual crisis. A young writer from Austria, he came … Read more
Roger Clemens is an American baseball player, was born in the city of Dayton, Ohio. His fights are famous for competitive fire. Clemens is one of the greatest pitchers in baseball. Roger Clemens, after graduating from the University of Texas, in 1984, joined the Red Sox baseball team as a novice pitcher. In 1986, he … Read more
“Wind by the windows, Quiet as dreaming, And behind the gardens in the twilight of the fields Screams quail, early stars shimmer, neighing of the strangled young horses…”; These lines of Nikolai Rubtsov seem to speak of my homeland – a small village, lost in the boundless Kulunda steppe on the border of two regions. … Read more
It is a tragic fare, a grotesque tale, consisting of dozens of oral novels. The author himself tells it this way: “Three friends, who have met at the institute, are living, gradually they are divorced, and two of them will find out that the third has collapsed under the ice near Leningrad, in January, and … Read more
Childhood and youth of Alexander Ryzhov In the reign of Catherine II, in the town of Soligalich, Kostroma province, the son of a small office clerk Ryzhov was born Alex’s son. Having lost his father at a young age, he was brought up by his mother, who sold pies of his own making on the … Read more
The war demanded rapid and dramatic changes in the whole way of life of the country. Overcoming the confusion, the party organs began sending out directives on the need to restructure the industry to a military way and evacuation of enterprises from the front zone. Fascists managed to seize the territory, which was home to … Read more
Do memories from childhood really stay in our soul for a long time? This question is answered by the prose writer Yuri Dmitrievich Nechiporenko, posing the problem of the role of childhood in the worldview, the formation of the character of man. Arguing on this occasion, the author turns to the recollections of the hero-narrator, … Read more
In the city of Murom, Prince Paul ruled. To his wife, the devil sent a flying serpent to fornication. He appeared to him in his form, and to other people he seemed Prince Paul. Princess in all confessed to her husband, but he did not know what to do. He told his wife to ask … Read more
In the morning at the house of Meropia Davydovna Murzavetskaya, “a girl of about sixty, who has great strength in the province”, assembled craftsmen – she owed them. Suitable Chugunov, a former member of the district court. Murzavets prudish and slanderous, Chugunov leads her affairs and manages the estate of the rich widow Kupavina, shamelessly … Read more
In 1359, John II, who was brought to London, Dobry signed a difficult peace treaty for France, according to which almost half of the country was transferred to Edward III, and for himself undertook to pay a considerable ransom. His son Dauphin Karl refused to accept the terms of the treaty. Then Edward III landed … Read more