Smoke

The life of Baden-Baden, a fashionable German resort, on August 10, 1862 was not much different from life on other days of the season. The audience was fun and colorful. However, it was not difficult to isolate our compatriots in it, especially near the “Russian tree”. It was here, at the Weber coffee house, that Litvinov was discovered

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Boy in a white shirt

: A little boy dies, lost in the fields. Time passes, but the mother cannot forget her grief and constantly sees in a dream a son in a white shirt. 1933 year. It’s a dry summer. The entire population of the Far Eastern village moves to the huts to harvest the surviving rye and wheat. In the village are old people and ...

Satin shoe

The action takes place at the end of the XVI or the beginning of the XVII century. on four continents, wherever Spain has any possessions or where it is trying to conquer something else, as well as in the open sea, that is, a gigantic scene of this voluminous, five hundred-page play, is the whole world, the whole universe....

Review of the film German Jr. "Dovlatov"

On March 1, the Dovlatov documentary was released. Sergey Dovlatov is a well-known Russian and American journalist, writer, an extraordinary personality and a loving father, whose image is detailed and colorful in the picture of German Jr. It would seem that two hours spent in the cinema, ...

Station ranger

There are no people more unfortunate than station rangers, because in all their troubles, travelers will certainly blame the rangers and seek to express their anger at them about bad roads, bad weather, bad horses and the like. Meanwhile, the rangers are mostly meek and unrequited ...

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Raven

The name of the work is symbolic: the raven is a bird that pecks out the eyes and brain, that is, blinds and deprives the mind. We learn about such love from the story of the protagonist. So, the rejected lover has a dream. He finds himself alone at night in a gloomy valley and meets there a spirit that warns ...

Stingy, or School of lies

Eliza, the daughter of Harpagon, and the young man Valera fell in love for a long time, and this happened under very romantic circumstances - Valera saved the girl from the stormy sea waves when the ship on which they both sailed wrecked. Valer's feeling was so strong that he settled in Paris and entered ...

Gingerbread man

The original of this work is read in just 3 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. : From the last meal the old woman bakes a bun. He comes to life and embarks on a journey. On the way, the gingerbread man meets a hare, a wolf and a bear, but leaves them unscathed. As a result, he eats ...

Composition: A.P. Life and Work Chekhov

(346 words) In which theater the "Cherry Orchard" was not staged! Who did not cry over the "Kashtanka" and did not laugh at the "Chameleon"! Since childhood, we all have been familiar with the work of the recognized classic and “Aybolit” of Russian literature - A.P. Chekhov. He was born in Taganrog in 1860 in a large family of an unfortunate ...

City of masters, or The Tale of Two Hunchbacks

: The city of Masters is captured by foreign soldiers. A hunchback sweeper, together with friends, frees the city from invaders, gets rid of the hump and marries the first beauty of the city. Action one In the ancient City of Masters there are people who know how to do everything in the world. Aliens take over the city ...

2 essays: My favorite block poem (for girls and boys)

Girls and boys have different preferences in literature, so we decided to write two versions of an essay on the work of A. Blok. One of them characterizes the author’s love lyrics, and the second describes the poet’s civil lyrics. For boys (314 words) Alexander Blok is one of the most ...

Red laugh

“... madness and horror. For the first time, I felt this when we walked along the Ennsky road — they walked ten hours continuously, without slowing down, not picking up the fallen and leaving them to the enemy, who was moving behind us and after three to four hours erased the traces of our feet with his feet ... ” - a young writer ...

Genius on order. Easy way to find custom solutions and ideas

Introduction Your mind can do more than you think. Freewriting - free writing - a method that increases the efficiency of the brain, forcing it to think unconventionally and without extra effort to produce original solutions and ideas. Freeriting is universal. With it, you can become your own consultant. ...

US Literature

The Legend of Kish

The 13-year-old boy Kish lives with the mother Aikiga on the Polar Sea. Kish has no brothers and sisters, and his father Bok died in a fight with a polar bear, which he entered, saving people from starvation. Over time, people forgot about the feat of a brave man, as well as about a mother with a boy living ...

Soviet literature

Blue book

Once Zoshchenko was with Gorky. And Gorky said to him: what would you, Mikhal Mikhalych and all that jazz, not write here in this your fantastic, so to speak, manner of the whole history of mankind? So that, then, your hero, the layman, understands everything and gets his work, figuratively speaking, to the very ...

British literature

Honorary Consul

The action takes place in a small Argentinean town on the border with Paraguay in the late 1960s - early 1970s. The main character is a doctor Eduards Plarr, a political emigrant from Paraguay, where he left with his mother as a fourteen-year-old teenager. His father, an Englishman by birth, is a fighter against the regime of the General ...