Chevengur

Four years later, during the fifth famine, he drove people to cities or forests - there was a crop failure. Zakhar Pavlovich remained alone in the village. Over the long life of his hands not a single product passed, from a frying pan to an alarm clock, but Zakhar Pavlovich himself had nothing: neither a family, nor a dwelling. One night, when Zakhar Pavlovich

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Interesting Articles

Notre Dame Cathedral

In the nooks and crannies of one of the towers of the great cathedral, a long-decaying hand traced the word "rock" in Greek. Then the word itself disappeared. But from it was born a book about a gypsy, a hunchback and a priest. January 6, 1482 on the occasion of the feast of baptism in the Palace of Justice give the mystery ...

Reading statistics in Russia and the world

Recently, one can often hear reproaches from the older generation regarding the excessive use of technology and gadgets: “And in our time, people read, not poked buttons.” Indeed, more and more often you will meet a person with a phone than with a book. At the same time, the Internet has opened access to the world ...

Forever - Nineteen Years Old

: A young wounded soldier in a hospital falls in love with a high school student. Returning to the front, he is again injured. He is sent to the hospital, he is looking forward to meeting with his beloved, but falls under fire. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional. Serious wound Volodya Tretyakov fought since December 1941 ...

Connecticut Yankees at King Arthur's Court

A typical business Yankee at the end of the 19th century, who knows how to do any thing in the world, gets a blow to the skull during a skirmish at his factory, gets from the industrial state of Connecticut in the era of King Arthur - more likely the hero of many chivalrous novels than the real king of the Britons, at the turn of the 5th-6th centuries our ...

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Analysis of Batyushkov’s poem “My Genius”

K.N. Batyushkova can be called a teacher A.S. Pushkin, it was he who discovered many images and motifs that were later developed and perfected by the Russian genius. Poems K.N. Batyushkova showed how melodic and sincere poetry can be. Before him, there was no such harmony and simplicity in Russian ...

We

Far future. D-503, a talented engineer, builder of the Integral spaceship, keeps notes for posterity, tells them about the “highest peaks in human history” - the life of the One State and its head Benefactor. The name of the manuscript is "We." D-503 admires the citizens of the One ...

424. Is a timid person capable of committing a bold act?

Shyness is not always opposed to courage, because the most modest and, at first glance, indecisive people are ready to commit a heroic act. This happens, of course, not always, but in the works of Russian literature there are many similar examples. In the epic novel ...

Green door

Rudolf Steiner, a handsome young man, was an adventurer. One evening he walked around the city center. Near the dentist’s sign, he saw a huge growth of a black man in a fantastic clown dress, which was handing out some leaflets to passers-by. He handed one of the sheets to Rudolph....

Where the sky and the hills converged

Composer Georgy Bashilov, while listening to a regular, primitively crude feast song, frowns. The composer's wife explains to others that he is not offended by singing, but, on the contrary, feels guilty for the fact that his countrymen do not sing at all in the village where he comes from. Bashilov thinks that the fault ...

The story of how one man fed two generals

: Stupid helpless generals find themselves on an uninhabited island, but even there they manage to find a man and force him to serve them.He dutifully gets food, builds a ship and takes them back to St. Petersburg. Once upon a time there were two generals. They were born, grew up and all their life they served in some registry, therefore they were ...

US Literature

White pea

In 1843, a young sailor in one of the Pacific harbors - it is easy to recognize the hero of the Taipei novel continuing his journey home - enters the American frigate Neversink. Since there is not a single extra sailor jacket on the ship after many years of sailing, he is forced to do it himself ...

Soviet literature

Boy by the sea

Abyss Sashuk's parents gather with the fishing team at sea. The boy is taken with him, but his beloved puppy is not. From such injustice he roars all day. Finally, the team leader Ivan Danilovich intervenes and orders to take the puppy. Together with the brigade Sashuk leaves for the first time and now with interest ...

British literature

Essence of the matter

The action takes place in 1942 in West Africa, in an anonymous British colony. The main character is the deputy police chief of the capital city, Major Henry Scobey, a man who is incorruptibly honest and therefore known as a loser. The police chief is about to resign, but Scobie, for whom there was ...