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Servant of two masters

The happy engagement of Silvio, the son of Dr. Lombardi, with young Clarice could only take place thanks to a very unfortunate circumstance - the death in a duel of Signor Federigo Rasponi, whom Clarice had long been promised as a wife by her father, Pantalone dei Bizonosi. Hardly, however, the fathers solemnly ...

A Tale of Love by Herey and Kalliroi

The action of the first surviving Greek novels dates back to the 5th century. BC e. - the time of the highest power of the Persian kingdom, the Peloponnesian conflict, the Greco-Persian wars and many other historical events. The beautiful Kalliroya, daughter of the famous Syracuse strategist Germocrat (historical person), ...

Man and nature in the story "Olesya" (Kuprin)

(251 words) At all times, the authors of literary works, one way or another, revealed the theme of the relationship between man and nature. Each responded differently to the question of the place and role of the natural world around us in people's lives. A.I. Kuprin is no exception. The story "Olesya" describes ...

Lyubimov

The fantastic story tells of a strange story that happened with the ordinary Lyubov philistine Leni Tikhomirov. Until then, in Lyubimov, standing under the Wet Mountain, no miraculous events were observed, but, on the contrary, there was a large Komsomol and intellectual stratum, and life was ...

Loyal subject

The central character of the novel, Diderich Gesling, was born into a German family of the middle bourgeois, the owner of a paper mill in the city of Netzig. As a child, he often hurt, was afraid of everything and everyone, especially his father. His mother, Frau Gesling, also lives in fear of angering her husband. Father accuses wife of her ...

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Master and Margarita

In the work - two storylines, each of which develops independently. The first action takes place in Moscow over several May days (days of the spring full moon) in the 30s. XX century, the second action also takes place in May, but in the city of Yershalaim (Jerusalem) almost two thousand ...

Composition: Life and work of Bella Akhmadulina

(359 words) On April 10, 1937, in Moscow, the Soviet writer, translator and the most famous Russian lyric poetess of the second half of the 20th century Bella Akhmadulina was born. Her parents were quite wealthy people. Dad is an employee of the State Customs Committee ...

Black cat

From childhood, the narrator is distinguished by meekness of temper and love for animals. Having married early, the narrator gladly discovers similar features in his wife, and especially love for animals. At home they live birds, goldfish, a thoroughbred dog, rabbits, a monkey and a cat. Beautiful, all ...

Shagreen skin

Talisman At the end of October, a young man entered the Palais Royal building - Rafael de Valantin, in the eyes of which the players noticed some terrible secret, his face expressed the impassivity of a suicide and a thousand deceived hopes. The loser Valanten sank the last Napoleonder and in a daze ...

US Literature

Invitation to the Execution

“Consistent with the law, Cincinnatus Ts. Cincinnatus’s unforgivable fault is its“ impermeability ”,“ opacity ”for the others who are terribly similar (the jailer Rodion now and then turns into the director of the prison, Rodrig Ivanovich, and vice versa; the lawyer and prosecutor must by law to be single brothers ...

Soviet literature

Viper

: Civil War.The merchant’s daughter becomes a fighter of the cavalry squadron, heroically fights with the “whites”, but cannot fit into peaceful life and acts with a rival according to the laws of wartime. Olga Vyacheslavovna Zotova, the daughter of an Old Believer, a merchant of the second guild, lived in Kazan. Olga Vyacheslavovna ...

British literature

Melmoth the Wanderer

One of the features of the composition of the novel is the so-called “framework narrative." The general plot canvas serves as a frame for numerous inserted short stories. However, in the novel by Metyurin, the attentive reader will catch the absolute sequence of the general plot, in which the author does not for a second ...