What do dreams and reality have in common?

(393 words) Dream and reality are two sides of the same coin, and this medal is the inner world of man. What a person imagines is her dream, and what she sees and feels in reality can be called subjective reality. Someone might think that these concepts are opposite,

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What is interesting is the story of A.I. Kuprina "Lilac bush"?

(213 words) A short, but absorbing remarkable sense, story of the prominent Russian writer Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin, “Lilac bush”, tells the reader about the story of two people who love each other - Nikolai Almazov and his wife Verochka. It would seem that the theme of love was raised by the authors ...

Barber of seville, or Futile precaution

On a nightly street in Seville, dressed as a modest bachelor, Count Almaviva waits for the object of his love to appear in the window. A noble nobleman, tired of the court licentiousness, for the first time wants to win the pure unbiased love of a young noble girl. Therefore, so that the title does not overshadow a person, he hides ...

Saga of the people from Laxdahl

The saga tells the story of eight generations of the same Icelandic family. The seventh generation occupies a central place: events related to it took place at the end of the 10th and beginning of the 11th centuries. Ketil the Flat Nose held a high position in Norway. When king Harald the fair-haired reached his highest ...

Village Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants

Former hussar, forty-year-old retired colonel Yegor Ilyich Rostanev is the owner of a rich and well-equipped Stepanchikov estate, where he lives with his mother, the widow of General Krahotkin, his unmarried sister, daughter Sasha, fifteen years old, and his son, Ilya, eight years old. Rostanev's wife died a few ...

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The fate of man

: The Soviet driver lived with his beloved wife and raised children. He went to the front, was captured, but heroically escaped from there. Upon learning that his whole family had died, he adopted a street boy. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional. Acquaintance with Andrei Sokolov Spring. Upper Don. Narrator with a friend ...

Hell car

The play, which is based on the plot of the motifs of the myth of Oedipus, takes place in ancient Greece. Queen Thebes of Jocasta, in order to prevent the oracle from predicting that her son, when he grows up, will kill his own father, the ruler of Thebes king Lai, ordered seventeen years ago ...

Through the eyes of a clown

The scene is Bonn, the time of the action approximately coincides with the date of creation of the novel. The story itself is a long monologue by Hans Schnier, a comic actor or, simply, a clown. Hans is twenty-seven years old, and he recently experienced the hardest blow of fate - she left him to marry ...

Praise and glory

Summer 1914. A beautiful young landowner Evelina Royskaya lives in her Ukrainian estate Molintsy. She has two sons: Józek, seventeen years old, sweet, serious boy, and unbridled Valerek, fourteen years old. Her husband studied agriculture in English agronomic magazines and tried to plant in Ukrainian ...

The image of Pushkin in the novel "Eugene Onegin" (A.S. Pushkin)

(350 words) As a storyteller, expressing a personal opinion about what is happening in the plot, A.S. Pushkin is the hero of the work. The whole novel carries a comparison of the views of the author and Onegin. Despite the fact that the playwright and the main character are completely different people, they remain friends: ...

Maggie's debut

Every evening in the club “Shamrock” dances were arranged for the workers of the cardboard factory. Factory workers, bosom friends Anna and Maggie came here. Anna came with her boyfriend and took with her Maggie, an inconspicuous fool with dull eyes, who always warmed the wall. Maggie once appeared ...

US Literature

To have and not to have

The novel, consisting of three short stories, dates back to the economic depression of the 1930s. Florida fisherman Harry Morgan from Key West makes a living by renting his motorboat to various rich people who come here to fish. They hire a boat with the owner - he knows where it is better ...

Soviet literature

Get up and go

The story “Get up and go” is the story of the relationship between father and son, on behalf of which the narrator-author speaks. Divided into relatively short twenty-two chapters, she honestly talks about filial feelings, sincere and spontaneous, passing from adoration to pity, from deep devotion to fulfillment ...

British literature

Beryl diadem

: They are trying to steal a diadem from a banker as collateral and break off one tooth. He is found by Sherlock Holmes, who finds out that the abduction was organized by a fraudster who seduced the banker's niece. Sherlock Holmes is contacted by banker Alexander Holder. One English person who ...