Alexander Green is a significant figure in Russian literature. His heroes of such works as “The Shining World”, “Running along the Waves”, have a subtle soul and an individual outlook on the world. But truly the visiting card of the author was the work “Scarlet Sails”. It seems to me that he knows about this book
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This most extensive of the sagas about the hero of the Irish epic, Kuhulin, is sometimes called the "Irish Iliad."It is dominated by the theme of war between the Ulad and the Connaught. The reason for the war was the abduction at the behest of Medb, the Queen of Connaught, a beautiful brown bull of divine origin, belonging ...
The Sun dignitary, Fan Tian-zhang, invited the nobles — Han Qi, Lu Yi-jian and Liu-yanei, to his council. In Chenzhou, famine is due to the drought. The sovereign ordered to open warehouses and sell rice to the people at an affordable price. To do this, send two honest officials. Liu offers his son Liu Dae-jung ...
“Masters and Margarita” is usually studied in the 11th grade. This is a complex work that is written on the basis of the gospel of Nicodemus, the secret follower of Jesus Christ. Recall the plot of the novel will help our summary of the chapters. If it’s too long for you, we offer an option for ...
: Having become a sovereign, you can be gracious or cruel, honest or deceitful - you have the right to do everything that strengthens your rule. When it comes to power, any means is good. Nationals must feel significant Imagine that you rule in the Renaissance and have just won a new ...
In the future - the “cosmic future” of mankind, very far from us - these farewell words will be heard: “Kelvin, you are flying. Good luck!" Psychologist Kelvin, at an incredible distance from Earth, drops from a spaceship to a planetary station - this is a huge silver whale soaring above the surface ...
Introduction Sapiens (The Intelligent Man) by Yuval Harari, an Oxford graduate and professor of history at the University of Judea in Jerusalem, is a glimpse into the history of mankind from a cosmic height. Unlike boring history textbooks that traditionally list names, dates, and events, Harari thanks ...
On the eastern shore of the Hudson River, in the depths of one of the bays, there is a village, not far from it there is a hollow, which for its silence and serenity, as well as for the phlegmatic nature of its inhabitants, was called Sleepy. This place seems to be under some kind of spell that has bewitched the minds of local residents who live in ...
: The poor landowner and the wife of his friend love each other for many years, but are afraid to confess their love, believing that they are unworthy of her. Only parting forever, they understand what little things prevented them from loving. The old bachelor Pavel Konstantinovich Alyokhin received guests at his estate. Pavel Konstantinovich ...
: On a deserted beach, a person dies whose body is streaked as if someone had whipped him. Sherlock Holmes realizes that the man was killed by a poisonous jellyfish. The retired great detective Sherlock Holmes lives in a small villa in Sussex, located on the hillside, which opens ...
: The young serf meets the mythical Mistress of the Copper Mountain, thanks to her he gets free, but does not find happiness and peace. At the end of the hero they find dead under strange circumstances.Once two workers went to distant mowing, to look at the grass. Both of them malachite in the mountain mined. Foreman ...
The widow of the actual state adviser Tatyana Ivanovna Gardenina, together with her three children, usually spent the winter in St. Petersburg. Due to the signs of anemia in the daughter of Elise, an impressionable girl of about seventeen, the family for some time lived in the summer abroad, which upset her sons - and the youngest, fifteen ...
The King of England, Morning Pendragon, falls in love with Igrain, the wife of the Duke of Cornwall, with whom he is at war. The famous sorcerer and diviner Merlin promises to help the king conquer Igrain, provided that he gives them their child. The duke dies in battle, and the barons, wanting to put an end to the strife, convince ...
(336 words) Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita” is a work that includes the problems of the individual and society, which remain relevant today. A variety of storylines and characters allowed the author to fully realize the main idea - to show Moscow ...
An uncomplicated melody sounds - about grass, heaven, space, foliage ... Sixty-year-old salesman Willy Lomen walks with two large suitcases to his New York house, sandwiched between skyscrapers. He is very exhausted and a little scared: having left in the morning with samples of goods, he did not reach the place ...
The action takes place in Moscow and takes place in several time plans: the mid-1930s, the second half of the 1940s, and the beginning of the 1970s. A scientist, literary critic Vadim Aleksandrovich Glebov, who agreed to buy an antique table in a furniture store, arrives there in search of what he needs ...
Moral norms and fashion are short-lived, and “nerds” do not reckon with them. What unites fashion and moral standards? At first glance, nothing. But in fact, both phenomena are limited by time and location. Example. Check out photos from the 1990s - how much fashion has changed! Or by going to ...
: A woman disappears after a marriage ceremony. The husband, one of the most distinguished people in the country, turns to Sherlock Holmes for help, who finds out that the newlywed already had a husband. Sherlock Holmes seeks help from Lord St. Simon. A year ago, traveling around the USA, the lord met a charming ...
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