Prairie

In the fall of 1804, along the vast expanses of the American prairies - further west, further away from the already inhabited lands - a train of stubborn, unpretentious immigrants (squatters) slowly moved. The head of the family, the phlegmatic lumpiness Ishmael Bush, was looking for a place to sleep. But the hill was replaced by the hill

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Odile

The main character Roland Rami returns to civilian life after a few months of service in Morocco, where he took part in hostilities. In Paris, with the mediation of one of his army comrades, Rami becomes a member of a small group of young people meeting in the Montmartre region, ...

The image of the national singer in the work of Turgenev "Singers"

(247 words) For four years, the famous Russian writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev worked diligently on the series “Notes of the Hunter”, which included the instructive story “Singers”. Using the hero as an example, the author shows how much music affects the human soul. Upon arrival in a small village ...

Good!

The poem is autobiographical in nature. 1 Mayakovsky begins his poem with a statement that the bygone days have passed. It is time to abandon epics, epics and epics and move on to a short telegram style. By telegram / fly, / stanza! An inflamed lip / bend / and drink from the river / named - "Fact"....

The meaning of Eljay’s song “Minimal”

Eldzhey’s thoughtful song “Minimal”, which many know against their will by heart, pumps clubs and plays in the headphones of schoolchildren and students ... Have you ever wondered why people need music? Somewhere I heard the phrase: "Music inspires the soul." I wonder where such a song will bring the soul of a person?...

Minna von Barnhelm, or Soldier happiness

Retired Major von Tellheim lives in a Berlin hotel with his faithful servant Just, with no livelihood. The innkeeper moves him from a decent room to a wretched room. The last two months Tellheim did not pay bills, and the room is needed by the “visiting lady”, young and beautiful ...

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Review of the film "Society of the Dead Poets"

The amazing film of the late 20th century starring Robin Williams is based on the heart-breaking story of teenage boys who entered the society of dead poets - a secret collection of romantic young men, constrained by ordinary life in a gray, uninteresting little world. Literature teacher, ...

Nycomed

Two of his sons arrive at the court of King Bithynia of Prussia. Nycomed, the son from his first marriage, left the army, at the head of which he won numerous victories, putting more than one kingdom at the feet of his father; he was tricked into the capital by his stepmother, Arsinoe. The son of Prussia and Arsinoe, Attalus, returned to his homeland from Rome, ...

Kotik Letaev

Here, on a steep-cutting line, I cast a long and dumb look into the past. The first moments of consciousness on the threshold of my three-year-old - get up to me. I am thirty five years old. I stand in the mountains, amid the chaos of steep cliffs, piling clumps, gleams of diamond peaks. The past is known to me and is swirling with clubs of events. To me ...

John Bull story

Lord Stratt, a wealthy aristocrat whose family had long owned enormous wealth, the parish priest and the cunning solicitor convince his cousin, Philip Babun, to bequeath his entire estate. To the cruel disappointment of another cousin, Esquire South, the title and estate after the death of Lord Stratt ...

Fire and sword

1647 year. Ukrainian lands that make up the Commonwealth. Yan Skshetusky - a young handsome officer, a knight without fear and reproach, serving in the service of Prince Jeremiah Vishnevetsky, the owner of the vast lands on the Left Bank of the Dnieper, rescues a swarthy narrow-eyed giant from the Horde. Brave and arrogant ...

Seven Underground Kings

: In the underground kingdom of the Fairyland, Soporific water disappeared. Girl Ally, once again in the Magic Land, helps to return the water and leaves the country forever. Introduction The magical land was created by the wizard Gurricap. He sought solitude for a long time, until he found a picturesque place. He surrounded the country ...

My favorite hero in the hero of our time

(270 words) After reading Lermontov’s novel “The Hero of Our Time”, I singled out an interesting and multifaceted female image. This is Vera - a woman whom Pechorin himself fell in love with. Although the selfish man brought her a lot of torment, he still saw in her the exceptional virtues that make her ...

US Literature

Harmony in nature

Three friends visit the modest Cypher restaurant. Sometimes they pay for dinners, sometimes not. The restaurant works as a waitress Millie, a girl of tremendous growth. One of Kraft's friends created the theory of Harmony in Nature. His theory revolves around minced corned beef with a poached egg and that Millie works ...

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

Lord jim

He was six feet tall, perhaps one or two inches shorter than the build of a strong man, and he walked right at you with his head bowed and staring intently from underneath. He held on as if stubbornly insisted on his rights, although there was nothing hostile in this, he seemed to relate this to himself equally, ...