The beginning of the XX century. Nine-year-old Philip Carey remains an orphan, and he is sent to be raised with his uncle priest in Blackstable. The priest does not feel tender feelings for his nephew, but in his house Philip finds many books that help him forget about loneliness. At school, where they sent the boy, classmates
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A gentleman from San Francisco, who is never named by name, since, as the author notes, no one in Naples or Capri remembers his name, he goes with his wife and daughter to the Old World for two whole years, to have fun and travel. He worked hard and now enough ...
(347 words) The genre of a literary work plays a huge role in creating a particular poem, tragedy or novel. Features of the genre affect the plot and construction of the text, as well as the behavior of the characters and the outcome of events. That is why it is important to clearly understand which species it belongs to. ...
(345 words) The theme of earthly happiness occupies an important place in the work of the great Russian writer A.P. Chekhov. On the pages of his stories and plays, he tells readers about the fate of ordinary, unremarkable people. As in real life, many of them are unhappy with their fate and are feverishly seeking ...
The middle of the XIX century. Privilege, rich in forests and artisans, is the Upper Volga region. They live here in labor and prosperity, professing the old faith. There are a lot of men who have fallen into merchants who are called thousand-strongers. One of such wealthy thousandths Patap Maksimych Chapurin lives in the village beyond the Volga ...
: Soviet monetary reform. To save the saleswoman from prison, her husband undertakes to get the money and goes for help to the villagers. Kuzma decided to go to his brother for help even at night, although deep down he doubted that his brother would help - they had long since become strangers. Rocking in a cold bus, he ...
On the corner of two lanes of the county town stood a police booth. The boothman Mimretsov, who lived in it, belonged to the category of people who were completely “unfit in the army”. Such people are usually only interested in drinking, they are afraid of the authorities to death, and the military drill is brought to the end, turning them into those ...
: A famous racer falls in love with a terminally ill girl. Their short-lived happiness ends in the death of a rider in one of the rally. After a few weeks, the girl dies of tuberculosis. The famous race car driver Clerfe went to the alpine sanatorium "Montana" for his tuberculosis patients to visit his friend ...
If you go from Porto Vecchio to the depths of Corsica, you can go to the vast thickets of poppies - the homeland of shepherds and all who are at odds with justice. Corsican farmers burn out part of the forest and receive crops from this land. The roots of the trees remaining in the ground again allow frequent shoots. This one is thick ...
Petrograd, mid-20s The protagonist is Andrei Nikolaevich Svistonov, a writer. “Svistonov didn’t work systematically, he didn’t suddenly see the image of the world, he didn’t suddenly become clear, and he didn’t write then. On the contrary, all his things arose from ugly notes on the margins of books, from stolen comparisons, ...
F.I. His poems are very personal, emotional, intended more to express the emotional state of the author and to a narrow circle of listeners. In Tyutchev’s lyrics, nature is one of the leading topics. In the poems of the poet, every object, phenomenon or event in nature is filled with vital energy, meaning, they ...
In the 60s. The old walls became cramped with sorbonne - she was suffocating from the influx of students. Then I had to make a difficult decision reluctantly. The university recognized that some of the capital’s children would not be able to get higher education in Paris itself, the philological faculty tore a piece from its own body ...
The play takes place in the former near-front town a few months after the war and takes a day. Action the first Hotel, located in a former monastery. In the windows of the vaulted room you can see the autumn sunset. The room is lit by a dim, then flaring up, then dying lamp. Elderly director ...
(351 words) “The word about Igor’s regiment” is a work that is a historical monument of ancient literature: despite the small volume, the poem contains a description of Igor’s feat of troops, a landscape picture of ancient Russia and images of princes who ruled in the 12th century. In his work, the author avoids ...
: The former gangster does honest work and buys his beloved expensive thing. Molly’s blue eyes were laid on both shoulders of Baby Brady, and he left the ranks of the gang, which freed the townsfolk from wallets and other valuables. The kid loves expensive things and despises cheap things, but Molly he’s cute ...
The hero of the novel, Vladimir Sanin, lived for a long time outside the family, which is probably why he easily takes possession of the threads of all the collisions that he notices in his native house and in a familiar city. Sister Sanina, the beautiful Lida, “the delicate and charming interweaving of graceful tenderness and dexterous strength”, is fond of her completely unworthy ...
Personal business philosophy Mission and values The mission answers the question: “How to achieve success in this business field?” and explains by what principles the company will select staff, make investments and allocate resources. Values determine how the company plans to fulfill the stated ...
The action takes place in the sixties, during the Cold War, when espionage was one of the main means of struggle between the two hostile political systems. The head of the British residency in East Berlin, Alec Limas, after the death of one of his main agents, SED member Karl Rimek, ...
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