Leonard, a young widow, is faithful to the memory of her late husband. She spends entire days in prayer and reading pious books, not allowing any of the admirers and seekers of her hand to come to her. There are many of them: the beauty of Leonarda is famous throughout Valencia no less than its impregnability and arrogance. Relative
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In a romantic and strange corner of London called Saffron Park, met Lucian Gregory - an anarchist poet whose long fiery curls combined with a rough chin suggested the connection of an angel and a monkey, and Gabriel Syme - a young man in a dandy suit, with an elegant blonde ...
In the family of a God-fearing merchant, a first-born son is born. Parents love him and constantly pray to him for God. The son grows up and is interested in commercial affairs, discovering in his conversations with his father a sound mind and ingenuity. When the merchant’s relatives are going to go overseas to trade, the son asks his father to give him three hundred rubles ...
Bessemenov Vasily Vasilievich, 58 years old, the foreman of the paint shop, marking a deputy in the city duma from the shop floor, lives in a prosperous house; Akulina Ivanovna, his wife; son Peter, a former student expelled for participating in illegal student gatherings; daughter Tatyana, a school teacher, ...
The action takes place during one crazy day in the castle of Count Almaviva, whose households manage to weave a dizzying intrigue with weddings, courts, adoption, jealousy and reconciliation in this short time. The heart of the intrigue is Figaro, the housekeeper of the count. This is incredibly witty and wise. ...
: A woman wants to buy a house with all things. Sherlock Holmes discovers that strange buyers need an affair that describes the affair of the deceased son of a woman with a well-known socialite beauty. A hefty black man bursts into Baker Street’s apartment and threatens Sherlock Holmes. Holmes knows that he was sent ...
Childhood seems to the narrator as a huge garden without end and edge. She spends it in the country with friends, children like her. The girl’s neighbors are seen as characters in the children's counters “Sitting on the Golden Porch ...”. Four dachas are without fences, and the fifth is “own house”. The storyteller wants to see ...
(339 words) Despite the fact that since the writing of the novel-epic L.N. Tolstoy's “War and Peace” has passed a lot of time, every year there are more and more admirers of this work. And this is not surprising, because the writer helps us to survive all emotions and feelings along with ...
I King Solomon is only forty-five years old, and the fame of him, of his wisdom and beauty, of the magnificence of his life has already spread far beyond Palestine.Solomon is very rich and so generous that silver during his reign is valued no more than a simple stone. For those who surround the king and protect his peace, ...
At the age of eighty-seven, a millionaire, Greek by birth, Aristide Leonidis dies. His attending physician refuses to issue a death certificate and insists on an autopsy. His granddaughter Sophia asks her fiancé Charles Hayward, the son of an assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard, to help her in the investigation....
(300 words) Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was not only the greatest writer, but also a man who possessed exorbitant pride. The writer always defended his convictions, did not tolerate the oppression of freedom and will. Probably, the author devoted his whole life to the search for the eternal truth that left ...
: The teacher’s wife is interested in her husband’s friend, the actor, and is going to leave with him. The teacher stops them, and the woman understands that her husband is a brave and loving man. In summer, a husband and wife rent a room in the village. They have been married for ten years, they have a son of about seven years old. Wife - tall, slim, flexible ...
Author: · Published · Updated Today, more than ever, the environmental problem is exacerbating in the world. This trend is reflected even in the Unified State Examination in the Russian language, where every year there are more and more options with texts focused on environmental issues. We highlighted the most ...
Sergei Yesenin called himself "the last poet of the village." He grew up in the bosom of broad Russian nature. And the love of the Russian forest, fields, rivers carried through all his work. In his poems reflected the beauty and grandeur of the Russian landscape, nature alive and spiritualized. He proved himself a real painter....
A small town in the American South. Cotton factory, workers houses, peach trees, a church with two stained glass windows and a main street a hundred yards away. If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon, then little will please the eye in this kingdom of boredom and deserts. In the very center of the city stands a large ...
The euphoria of Moscow’s New Year’s Eve in December 45 coincided perfectly with the mood of captain Sergei Vokhmintsev, who had recently been demobilized from Germany, “when it seemed that everything beautiful in himself and in life had just been understood and it should not disappear.” Four years of war, artillery command ...
: The great Roman philosopher discusses the transience of life in letters to his friend Pauline. Most mortals complain about the treachery of nature: we are born so briefly, and the time allotted to us flies so soon that, with the exception of a few, we leave life before we have time for it ...
The action takes place in Mexico in the late XVIII - early XIX century. The novel opens with a description of the feast in honor of St. John's Day in the small Mexican town of San Ildefonso. All walks of life are having fun here. Among the aristocrats, Catalina de Cruces, daughter of the wealthy mine owner Don Ambrosio, stands out ...
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