Christmas

: The hero dies before the hero on Christmas day, a boy collecting butterflies. After the funeral, in the village, in a heated room, a huge Indian butterfly hatches from a cocoon that was in the boy’s collection. At Sleptsov, in a Petersburg house, a son died, a boy who was fond of collecting butterflies. Father

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144. Do you have to be faithful to your ideals all your life?

The formation of personality is accompanied by the formation of ideals that remain with a person for life. However, people are not always so strong as to remain faithful to what they believe. Usually they are condemned for this, but maybe you should not do this? Perhaps these ideals are already ...

Raid

The action takes place in a Belarusian village in the mid-thirties. Collectivization has already taken place, the collective farm has been created, the so-called fists have been dispossessed and evicted to immense places, but in reality they are strong masters. One of them - Fedor Rovba - once believed the revolutionary ideals that proclaimed ...

451 degrees Fahrenheit

America is a relatively near future, as it was seen by the author in the early fifties, when this dystopian novel was written. Thirty-year-old Guy Montag is a firefighter. However, in these recent times, fire brigades do not fight fire. Quite the contrary. Their task is to find books and betray ...

The Tale of Carp Sutulov

There lived a rich merchant Karp Sutulov with a beautiful wife, whose name was Tatiana. Karp had a friend, Athanasius Berdov. Going to go to Lithuanian land, Karp came to a friend and asked him to help with money Tatiana, who was left alone to manage the house. Athanasius agreed. Karp promised to pay him off after ...

Golden Key, or The Adventures of Pinocchio

Once upon a time, in a certain town on the Mediterranean coast, the carpenter Giuseppe gives his friend the organ-grinder Carlo a talking log that, you see, does not want to be jammed. In a poor closet under the stairs, where even the hearth and that was painted on a piece of old canvas, Carlo cuts a boy out of logs ...

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Analysis of the Raven Poem (Edgar Poe)

Edgar's poem “Raven” is unique in that it won the hearts of readers from the first days of publication and remains popular now. This is one of the most famous and translated poems among those ever created in world literature. History of creation The first mentions of the Crow date back to 1844....

Unsolicited Tale

As the foggy haze of the festive New Year's morning dissipated, the court ladies who served in the Tomikoji Palace appeared in the reception hall, competing with each other in the brilliance of their outfits. That morning I was wearing a seven-layer lower robe - the color changed from pale pink to dark red: on top of the dress ...

Cheryomysh - hero's brother

: A new student comes to the class, who tells everyone that his older brother is a famous pilot throughout the country. When the pilot arrives in their city, the boy has to admit deception. In the fifth grade of one of the schools in the city of Severyansk comes a new boy Gesha Cheremysh. Classmates and teachers in ...

Missing eye

: The young doctor, having gained experience, believes that you will not surprise him with anything. A child with a tumor instead of an eye is brought to him. Upon learning that the tumor is an ordinary abscess, the doctor realizes that he will have many surprises. The narration is on behalf of a young doctor, whose name is not mentioned in the story. Act ...

Chameleon

The original of this work is read in just 6 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. : The police overseer is trying to do his job, but the grafted worship is stopping him. Police overseer Ochumelov and red-haired city Eldyrin are walking through the market square....

Emerald

: The horse that won the horse turns out to be a fake trotter. She is taken to the outback and fed with poisoned grain. The animal is dying in agony. Emerald is a tall running horse with legs and body of impeccable shapes. He lives in the stable along with other running stallions who cannot stand each other. Some ...

Rogues of the North

: Puppy and teddy bear are alone in the forest. With the onset of winter, the teddy bear hibernates. Left alone, the puppy survives and finds a master. The little bear Neyev is born in late March. His mother, an old bear, teaches the baby how to get food, how to avoid danger. Not sparing ...

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Walden, or Life in the Forest

In this book, Thoreau describes his own life, the period when he lived alone for two years on the banks of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and also shares his thoughts on the meaning of life and on the most rational way of combining spiritual activity with providing ...

Soviet literature

Rabbits and boas

Events take place many years ago in one faraway African country. Boas tirelessly hunt rabbits, while monkeys and elephants are neutral. Despite the fact that rabbits usually run very fast, at the sight of boas they seem to fall into a daze. Boas do not strangle rabbits, but hypnotize ...

Nonfixing

Free will that does not exist

The popular concept of free will is based on two statements: Each of us can behave differently than we did in the past. We are the conscious source of most of our thoughts and actions in the present. Unconscious sources of will We are aware of only a small piece of information, ...

British literature

The incident at Villa Three Skates

: 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 ...