I always asked permission from my parents to get a dog or a cat in the house, but they did not want to agree. And once they gave me themselves. hamster. I was very surprised at this gift, because I did not know anything about these little animals. I had to go to the library … Read more
Robinson from childhood dreamed of sea voyages. He was the youngest child in the family, and he did not need rationality. The father, a man of sedate and measured, persuaded his son to change his mind and begin to lead an ordinary modest existence. But the exhortations of the father and mother do not help, … Read more
K. McCullers Ballad of an unhappy tavern A small town in the American South. Cotton mill, workers’ houses, peach trees, a church with two stained-glass windows and a main street of yards in a hundred. If you walk along the main street in the August afternoon, then little will be pleased with the eye in … Read more
The action takes place the first postwar spring, at the end of March, on the Upper Don. The narrator goes with the comrade to the village of Bukanovskaya. On the way, he meets Andrei Sokolov, who leads a boy of five or six years by the hand. While the narrator is waiting for the boat, … Read more
Ancient Greek philosopher, famous for his characteristic life position, the founder of the school of Cynics. Childhood and early years Diogenes was born in 412 BC. e. in the Greek colony Sinop on the southern coast of the Black Sea. Information about his early years did not reach us. For certain it is only known … Read more
Alvaro Mendiola, a Spanish journalist and film director who has been living in France for a long time in voluntary exile, after suffering a severe heart attack, after which doctors prescribed rest, together with his wife, Dolores comes to Spain. Under the shadow of his home, which once belonged to a large family, from which … Read more
Arkady Makarovich Dolgoruky, who is also a teenager, recounts in his notes about himself and recent events, in which he was one of the main participants. He is twenty years old, he just graduated from high school in Moscow, but he decided to postpone his admission to the university, so as not to be distracted … Read more
Why Goncharov’s novel is called “Cliff” is not clear from the very beginning, so it is necessary to get acquainted with at least a brief summary of this work. At the beginning of the novel “Obryv” we see how two friends Boris Pavlovich Raisky and Ivan Ivanovich Ayanov are going to visit the Petersburg house … Read more
“When I was little, I loved to have dinner with adults, and my sister Lelya loved such dinners as much as I did.” So begins the story Zoshchenko, which is conducted on behalf of the boy Minky. The desire of children to be at the table had several reasons. The first was a lot of … Read more
Dreams in us live from the very childhood and go through all life. Some come true in a matter of days, and we desperately wait for the accomplishments of others for an eternity. Much depends on ourselves, and achievement requires great effort. Some dreams can be carried out independently of our actions, desires and opportunities. … Read more