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Day of the Oprichnik

: XXI Century. The autocracy and the oprichnina are returning to Russia, and again the “Iron Curtain” arises. One of the top Moscow oprichniks kills people and takes a bribe, confident that he is serving Russia. The narration is conducted on behalf of the oprichnik Andrey Komyaga. Russia, XXI century. Sixteen years ago ...

Naples - the city of millionaires

The action takes place in 1942, at the end of the second year of the war in Italy. The Jovine family, consisting of fifty-year-old Gennaro Jovine, his wife Amalia, a beautiful thirty-seven-year-old woman, their children - the elder Maria Rosaria and Amedeo and the younger Rita, lives in a small, dirty and smoky apartment on ...

Poems about the war for children

Before you are small poems about the war, which can be offered for reading to children. These verses do not reflect the monstrous brutality of wartime and therefore do not injure. They only with light strokes create the image of a destructive war that has broken so many human destinies. These ...

Conarmia

My first goose The correspondent of the newspaper "Red Cavalryman" Lyutov (narrator and lyrical hero) finds himself in the ranks of the First Horse Army, led by S. The First Horse, fighting the Poles, makes a trip to Western Ukraine and Galicia. Among the Konarmeytsy Lyutov - a stranger. Bespectacled, intellectual, jew, he ...

The story of the seven hanged

An old, obese, exhausted by illnesses man sits in a strange house, in a strange bedroom, in a strange chair and looks at his body in bewilderment, listens to his feelings, becomes fierce and cannot completely overpower his thoughts: “Fools! They think that by informing me of an impending assassination attempt on me, ...

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Lucinda

Julius tries to find Lucinde where he used to see her - in her room, on their couch - and, not finding her, begins to conduct a strange conversation with her, devoid of a certain content, then surrendering to the will of his fantasies, then resorting to help scribbled by him once, kept by her caring ...

Tram "Desire"

The scene of the play is the wretched outskirts of New Orleans; in the very atmosphere of this place, according to a remark by Williams, there is something "missing, spoiled." It is here that a tram with the symbolic name “Desire” brings Blanche Dubois, which, after a long chain of setbacks, adversities, compromises and the loss of ancestral ...

Quentin Dorward

The action takes place in medieval France, amid wars and complicated court intrigues, the French king Louis XI, a smart and subtle politician, is fighting with powerful European rulers for the prosperity of France. Unprincipled and cautious Louis - the antithesis of Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, ...

He who gives wealth to Heaven gives a son in old age

The rich elderly merchant Liu Tsong-shan suffers: he does not have a son. There is a daughter and son-in-law Zhang, there is an orphan nephew Yin-sun, but his wife does not tolerate him and forces her husband to expel the young man, and he is forced to live in a hut almost without a livelihood. There is also a concubine Xiao-mei, who is expecting a child from a merchant. Charter ...

Review of the play by A.N. Ostrovsky "Thunderstorm"

(327 words) Many classic books lose their relevance over time. But just not Ostrovsky’s play “The Storm”. It can be seen in the best theaters of Russia every season. Why? Because viewers are still close to the social and personal problems that the author has raised. The main idea of ​​the work is expressed ...

Top 7 children's stories A.S. Pushkin

The great Russian creator, A. S. Pushkin, left a rich legacy to Russian literature: poems, poems, novels in verses, prose and dramatic works. He also wrote fictional stories for adults and children. Surely there is not a single person to whom in childhood parents or grandmothers ...

Composition: The Life Story of Dubrovsky from A.S. Pushkin "Dubrovsky"

Pushkin was never able to name his latest and incomplete novel. “Dubrovsky” is the name that the publishers came up with before the publication of the manuscript after the death of Alexander Sergeyevich. The novel was named according to simple logic - this is the last name of the protagonist, Vladimir, whose life ...

Ash

The duration of the novel is 1797-1812, the fifteenth anniversary of the failed uprising of Tadeusz Kosciuszko and the third (1795) partition of Poland between Prussia, Austria and Russia. In the center of the story is the young Rafal of Olbromsky, the son of a poor old nobleman. At a carnival in his father’s house, he accidentally meets ...

US Literature

Junkie. Confession of an incorrigible drug addict

William Lee was born and raised in a fashionable quiet suburb of one of the big cities of the Midwest. In childhood and adolescence, he did not stand out among peers, except that he read them much more. At the end of Harvard, William stumbled around pre-war Europe for a year, the benefit of a stable monthly ...

Soviet literature

Golden Rose

: On Writing Skills and Psychology of Creativity Precious Dust Garbage man Jean Chamet cleans up craft workshops in the Paris suburbs. Serving as a soldier during the Mexican War, Chamet fell ill with a fever, and he was sent home. The regimental commander ordered Chamet to take his to France ...

Nonfixing

Black Swan: under the sign of unpredictability

: The advice of a well-known economist and analyst teaches you to succeed, without relying on luck and intuition, to calculate options and take into account events and risks that seem impossible. "Black Swans" - these are events that seem to be impossible, but occurring The talent of a person is to turn all the signals of the surrounding ...

British literature

In the Lilac Gatehouse

: In the English province, a Spaniard is killed, of which nothing is known. Sherlock Holmes discovers that the Spaniard was killed, preparing for the murder of an escaped dictator of a small country, who was hiding here. Part one. An Extraordinary Adventure with Mr. John Scott-Ackles Sherlock Holmes Turns ...