Interesting Articles

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, ...

The image of the city in the poem "The Bronze Horseman" (A. S. Pushkin)

(379 words) In the work of A.S. Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman Petersburg is depicted on both sides. On the one hand, the author admires the beauty and grandeur of the new city, its uniqueness. And on the other, it reflects the dead architecture of Petrograd, shows the insidiousness of its elements. Whatever it was, ...

Girl from the Earth

: A girl living at the end of the 21st century falls into adventure on Earth and Mars; saves a whole civilization by moving to the distant past, and fights with space pirates in deep space. All three stories are narrated on behalf of Alisa Selezneva’s father, a professor of cosmobiology. ...

Yermolai and the mill

In the evening, Yermolai and I went hunting woodcocks. Yermolai is a hunter, a man of about 45 years old, tall, thin, with a long nose, narrow forehead, gray eyes and wide mocking lips. All year round he wore a German-style caftan and blue trousers. Yermolai had an old flintlock gun and ...

Recent

Tolstoy's views on the meaning of life

(352 words) The work of Leo Tolstoy covers a wide range of insoluble issues of human life. But a special place in the work of the thinker is occupied by the search for the meaning of human life. Why are we born and die? The writer was constantly looking for the answer to this question. In their famous ...

The best books about the life of women in different centuries

Taking advantage of the benefits of civilization and accepting the moral guidelines that surround us from birth, we sometimes do not think about how much our ancestors had to go through. We take a lot for granted. For example, women's opportunities to work, receive salaries and education on a par with men, ...

Hat in a circle

The main characters of Henry Lawson's tales are ordinary Australians, mostly people of manual labor. In the story “A hat in a circle”, the author tells of a shearing sheep Sheep Bobra Brasers nicknamed Giraffe. He is a tall guy, about six feet three inches tall. It is folded awkwardly, and the face of ...

Family chronicle

In the 60s. XVIII century Stepan Mikhailovich Bagrov, the grandfather of the storyteller (it is easy to guess that Aksakov is talking about his own grandfather), "began to live closely" in the Simbirsk "fatherland" of various places. Stepan Mikhailovich did not receive an education, but "his natural mind was healthy and bright," he is certainly fair ...

Saga of Kukhulin

Birth of Kukhulin Once upon a time, birds of an unknown breed came upon the land of the villages and began to devour all fruits, cereals, grass, all greenery to the root. Then, in order to save their food, the Uladas decide to equip nine chariots and go hunting for birds. The governor of the settlements Konkhobar and ...

US Literature

It

: Seven friends come into confrontation with an otherworldly creature that feeds on children's fears, but they fail to destroy it. Having matured, friends again encounter the creature and destroy it. Part one. Shadow of the Past. Summer of 1958. The small town of Derry in Maine terrorizes the mysterious ...

Soviet literature

Inhabited island

: Far future. Exploring the depths of outer space, a young earthling crashes on an unfamiliar planet and tries to save local residents from dictatorial rule. Part one. Robinson Exploring space, earthling Maxim Kammerer crashes and lands on an unknown planet. Maxim remains ...

British literature

Windsor mockers

The fat knight Falstaff and some other comedic characters of Henry IV appear again in this play - Judge Schell, pompous brawler Pistol, mischievous page of Falstaff, drunkard Bardolph. The action takes place in the city of Windsor and is frankly farcical in nature. In front of Page, wealthy Windsor ...