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1. American reality in the works of J. Updike John Updike is a famous American novelist and journalist. During his creative career, he published twenty-eight novels and forty-five collections of prose and poems. Not all his books are translated into Russian. The writer is a laureate of a number of prestigious literary prizes of the USA, including Pulitzer and the prize of the National […]...
2. Summary Rabbit, run Updike JH Updike Rabbit, run Twenty-six year old Harry Engstrom, nicknamed Rabbit, lives in the village of Mount Judge near the town of Brewer, Pennsylvania. He is married, he has a son Nelson, but there is no family happiness. Family obligations greatly weigh the hero. Janice’s wife drinks, and her pregnancy does not fill Rabbit, pride […]...
3. “Rabbit, run” Updike in brief summary Twenty-six-year-old Harry Engstrom, nicknamed Rabbit, lives in the village of Mount Judge near the town of Brewer, Pennsylvania. He is married, he has a son Nelson, but there is no family happiness. Family obligations greatly weigh the hero. Janice’s wife drinks, and her pregnancy does not fill Rabbit, pride in the knowledge that their family […]...
4. Biography of John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy is the 35th President of the United States. Born John May 29, 1917 in Massachusetts, the city of Brookline in a wealthy family policy. The first training in the biography of Kennedy took place at the boarding school of Connecticut, then he studied at Princeton, Harvard. For some time he lived in […]...
5. The novel by John Updike “Centaur” “If an adult completely forgets the child in himself, It will turn into a machine for eating, Pleasure, obtaining money. “ D. Updike Will we remember childhood as clearly as it is now? What moments will be remembered for life, and which will disappear forever from our memory? Maybe, only in years I can understand […]...
6. Summary of Bellow C Saul Bellow, born in Solomon Belous, June 10, 1915, Lashin, Quebec, Canada – April 5, 2005, Brooklyn, Massachusetts, USA) is an American writer of Jewish origin, a Nobel Prize in literature for 1976, a prose writer, also known as an essayist and teacher. Saul Bellow was born June 10, 1915 in the town of Lashin […]...
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8. Biography of Jack London Jack London is an American writer. Jack was born January 12, 1876 in San Francisco. A new surname in the biography of Jack London was obtained when the kid was not yet a year old – his mother married John London. The difficult financial position, as well as the foundations of the country, prompted Jack […]...
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10. “Centaur” Updike in the summary The action takes place during several January days in 1947 in the town of Olinger, Pennsylvania First chapter The novel begins with the words “Caldwell turned away, and at the same moment an ankle was pierced by an arrow.” The class laughs, and Caldwell-centaur, meanwhile, is not up to laughter, he feels a piercing pain […]...
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12. Summary of “The Tales of Uncle Remus” by Harris “Tales of Uncle Remus” by J. Harris – these are funny and funny stories about the tricks of the resourceful Brother Rabbit, about the adventures of the cunning and insidious Bratz Fox, about the wise turtle and other very different animals, symbolizing relationships in the world of people. In Brother Rabbit, for example, the relationship […]...
13. Biography of George W. Bush George Walker Bush is governor, president of the United States from January 2001 to January 2009. Born July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut, father – 41st US President George Herbert Walker Bush. The first education in the biography of Bush was received at the Phillips Academy. Then he studied at Yale University, where in […]...
14. Biography of Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama – junior senator of Illinois, 44 US president. Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. After graduation in his biography, Obama spent two years in the Western College of Los Angeles. Then he moved to Columbia University for the International Relations Department. In 1983 he received a bachelor’s degree. […]...
15. Biography of Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling is a writer, poet. Born Kipling December 30, 1865 in the Indian city of Bombay, his father was a professor at the Art School. The first years of life in the biography of Kipling were very happy. At the age of five he moved to England, where he lived and studied at […]...
16. “Let’s get married” Updike in the summary A secluded beach on the Connecticut coast near the fictional city of Greenwood. Jerry Conant and Sally Matthias meet there secretly. Each of them has their own families, children, but they are irresistibly attracted to each other. Again and again they start talking about finding the strength to break with the conventions and take the […]...
17. Biography of Pearl Buck Pearl Saydensticker Buck, an American writer, was born in Hillsborough, Virginia. Pearl Buck graduated from the Randolph-Macon College of Women in 1914. Pearl Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Until 1924, she lived mainly in China, where she, her parents and her first husband, John Lossing Buck, were missionaries. She is […]...
18. Biography of John Adams John Adams is an American composer, born in Worcester, Massachusetts. As a clarinetist, Adams graduated from Harvard. In 1969, he received a bachelor’s degree, and in 1971 – a master of arts. He is often called the most outstanding, technically savvy in music, the most influential composer of his generation. Adams wrote in a variety […]...
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23. Summary “Brother fox and brother rabbit” Harris How much charming enchantment in “Tales of Uncle Remus”! No wonder the 16-year-old teenager Joel Harris (1848-1908) was heard by the stories that blacks in the kitchen told to pass the time and have fun. He then worked as a “boy on parcels” on a plantation for shelter and bread, and in the evenings absorbed […]...
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