: A boy from a good family faces the cruelty and injustice of the world towards the poor. Despite the difficulties, he shows compassion, kindness and nobility, helping the destitute. “My mother died when I was six years old” - so the hero of the story, the boy Vasya begins the story. His father is a judge ...

Chapter I — VII Huckleberry Finn, on behalf of whom the story is being narrated, became rich and lives with the widow of Douglas. With the help of her sister, the old maid Miss Watson, the widow is doing her best to raise a cultured person out of him. Only the best friend Tom Sawyer can save Huck from torment ...

Moscow. At the table, Ivan IV the Terrible. Behind, behind the king’s back, the stewards. On the contrary - princes and boyars. On the sides - security, guardsmen. Tsar Ivan Vasilievich in an excellent mood.Well, why is there no reason to turn an everyday meal into a small, for your own, holiday? Opening the feast "for pleasure ...

The original of this work is read in just 8 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. The action takes place in the revolutionary Petrograd in the winter of 1917/18. Petrograd, however, acts both as a concrete city, and as the center of the Universe, a place of cosmic cataclysms. First ...

Two peasant brothers lived: one rich and the other poor. For many years the rich gave the poor a loan, but he remained the same poor.Once a poor man came to ask a rich horse to bring firewood. He reluctantly gave the horse. Then the poor began to ask for a clamp. But brother was angry and the clamp is not ...

: The young Englishman, tired of his life, goes on a journey, hoping to find the meaning of life and find peace in unity with nature, but still does not find peace. The titles of the chapters in the retelling are conditional. With the third chapter, the personality of the storyteller merges with the personality of the protagonist. In the foreword ...

: A smart gudgeon decides that if you live in a dark hole and tremble quietly, then he will not be touched. Dying alone, he realizes that in his life there was neither love nor friendship, and everyone around him considered him a fool. The original uses the spelling “clerk”, it is stored in the title and quotes as a tribute to tradition....

The article is devoted to the drama Ostrovsky "Thunderstorm". At the beginning of her Dobrolyubov writes that "Ostrovsky has a deep understanding of Russian life." He then analyzes the articles on Ostrovsky by other critics, writes that they "lack a direct view of things." Then Dobrolyubov compares ...

: 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 ...

: Stupid landowner gets rid of men. Food disappears in the bazaar, money runs out in the treasury, and he runs wild. Everything comes back to normal when men again appear on the estate. Once upon a time there lived a stupid and wealthy landowner, Prince Urus-Kuchum-Kildibaev. He loved to lay out granpasians and read the newspaper "Vest". Prayed ...

Part One The main character - eight-year-old Remy - lives in a French village, alone with his mother, whom he calls mother Barberen. Her husband, mason Barberen, lives and works in Paris. Remy does not remember that he once came home. Once with Barberen, a disaster happens at work, ...

: The old woman is forcibly evicted from her native village to be flooded. Forced to leave their homes and graves, they are hard to say goodbye to their homelands. 1 - 3 Last spring came for the village of Matera, standing on an island of the same name. Downstream they built a dam for a hydroelectric power station, ...

: Travelers are greeted by a monk who tells how many adventures, torments and trials he went through before he went to the monastery. Chapter One Traveling on Lake Ladoga on a boat, travelers, among whom was a storyteller, visited the village of Korela. When the journey continued ...

The young nobleman Eugene Onegin travels from St. Petersburg to the village to his dying rich uncle, annoyed by the impending boredom. Twenty-four-year-old Eugene received a home education in childhood, he was brought up by French tutors. He spoke fluently in French, danced easily, a little ...

Life, unusual and amazing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a sailor from York, who lived alone for 28 years on a desert island off the coast of America near the mouths of the Orinoco River, where he was thrown by a shipwreck during which the entire crew of the ship died except for him, outlining ...

: A strange old man arrives in a shelter for the poor. He reassures and comforts the descending people, awakens in them the hope for the best, and then disappears without a trace. Act 1. The appearance of the old man Luke Spring morning. Bedside for the poor - a cellar with a vaulted ceiling and bunks along the walls. One corner is fenced off with plywood, ...

My first goose The correspondent of the newspaper "Red Cavalryman" Lyutov (narrator and lyrical hero) finds himself in the ranks of the First Horse Army, led by S. The First Horse, fighting the Poles, makes a trip to Western Ukraine and Galicia. Among the Konarmeytsy Lyutov - a stranger. Bespectacled, intellectual, jew, he ...

: Children get on the street performance of an armless cripple. What they see scares them, collides with the contradiction of life. Children stop fantasizing, realizing that life is not beautiful for everyone. The narration is conducted on behalf of a ten-year-old boy, whose name is not mentioned in the work. In retelling ...

The sovereign emperor of the Franks, the great Charles (the same Charles, on whose behalf the very word "king" occurs), has been fighting the Moors in beautiful Spain for seven long years. He has won many Spanish castles from the wicked.His faithful army defeated all the towers and conquered all the cities. Only the lord of Zaragoza, ...

: A pilot who has lost his job is trying to earn money by shooting sharks. On the set, he takes a ten-year-old son, a relationship with which he does not go well. A shark attacks the pilot, and the son saves the wounded father. The titles of the chapters are conditional and do not correspond to the original. Life Story Ben Ben was a good pilot....