The Tale of the Life of Alexy, the Man of God

The events of Life belong to the end of the 4th - beginning of the 5th century. (the reign of the Roman emperors Arcadius and Honorius). A wealthy and noble man Efimian lives in Rome, he observes the commandments of God, and devotes special attention and care to the poor, wanderers, orphans, widows who are sick, and everyone eats with them.

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The adopted daughter of a wholesaler of ready-made clothes, Takichiro Sada, notes that on an old maple growing near their house, two bushes of violets have blossomed - they grow in two small hollows on the trunk of an old maple and blossom every spring, as Tieko remembers himself. They look like miserable girls ...

Arguments: fidelity and treason in the play "The Storm" (A. Ostrovsky)

In A. Ostrovsky’s drama The Storm, the theme of betrayal and fidelity is revealed with the help of several plans, since it was important for the author to show that the tragedy of the situation he described was not only at the everyday level. Therefore, it is important to analyze not only the main plot, but also the images of the characters, ...

Folklore images and symbols in the poem "Svetlana" (V. Zhukovsky)

(297 words) It is known that Zhukovsky’s work “Svetlana” was originally only a translation of the German ballad. However, later the writer significantly rewrote the text: replaced the names and added the “Russian character”. Such changes did not spoil the ballad. On the contrary, the poem has become more intelligible. ...

And the dawns here are quiet...

May 1942. Countryside in Russia. There is a war with fascist Germany. He is thirty two years old. He has only four classes of education. Vaskov was married, but his wife fled with a regimental veterinarian, and his son soon died. It’s calm on the road. Soldiers arrive here, look around, and then begin ...

Boy in a white shirt

: A little boy dies, lost in the fields. Time passes, but the mother cannot forget her grief and constantly sees in a dream a son in a white shirt. 1933 year. It’s a dry summer. The entire population of the Far Eastern village moves to the huts to harvest the surviving rye and wheat. In the village are old people and ...

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Gargantua and Pantagruel

The story of the terrifying life of the great Gargantua, father of Pantagruel, once composed by the master Alcofribas Nazier, the extractor of quintessence. A Book Full of Pantagruelism Books One and Two Turning to the glorious drunkards and venerable veneres, the author invites them to have fun and have fun, ...

Faithful Ruslan

The guard dog Ruslan heard something howl outside all night, swinging lanterns with a rattle. Calmed down only in the morning. The owner came and finally brought him to the service. But when the door opened, a bright white light suddenly surged into my eyes. Snow was howling at night. And there was something else that made ...

The image of the muse in the lyrics of N. A. Nekrasov

(283 words) For a poet, a muse is something abstract, but at the same time it is generated by specific images, phenomena and motives that excite the souls of creators, it is something personal, something that inspires. From childhood, Nekrasov tasted the burden of realizing the injustice of the slave regime in Russia, a harsh ...

Broken jug

The play takes place at the beginning of the 19th century. in the Dutch village of Guizum, near Utrecht, in January. The scene is the court chamber. Adam, the village judge, sits and bandages his leg. Licht, the clerk, comes in and sees that Adam's whole face is in abrasions, a crimson bruise under his eye, a piece of meat is torn from his cheek....

Composition in the novel “Hero of Our Time”

(372 words) The composition of the work plays a huge role in literary creation. The arrangement of the chapters can create intrigue or more clearly convey the idea of ​​the author. The most striking example of an unusual composition we can observe in the novel by M. Yu. Lermontov “Hero of our time”. For the first time ...

Privalov millions

In the Ural county town Uzle, an event: after a long absence, the young millionaire Sergei Alexandrovich Privalov returns. His arrival brings a noticeable variety to the life of the local matchmaker - Khioniya Alekseevna Zaplatina, "ladies of uncertain years with a faded face." She sees in Privalovo profitable ...

Cavalier Glitch

The main character, sitting in a cafe and listening, in his opinion, the ugly music of the local orchestra, meets a mysterious man. He agrees to have a drink with him, having previously learned if he is a Berliner and does not compose music. The protagonist negatively answers the first question, the second notes that ...

US Literature

Village

The French Beam was called part of a fertile river valley twenty miles southeast of Jefferson, Yoknapatofa County, Mississippi. Once it was a colossal plantation, the remains of which - the box of a huge house, the destroyed stables and barracks for slaves, overgrown gardens - were now called ...

Soviet literature

Fourth prose

Some people are trying to save others from execution. But they act in different ways. The wise prudence of the Odessa Newton-mathematician, with whom Venyamin Fedorovich approached the case, differs from the stupid troublesomeness of Isai Benediktovich. Isai Benediktovich behaves as if shooting - infectious ...

British literature

French Lieutenant's Mistress

On a windy March day of 1867, a young couple strolling along the pier of the old town of Lyme Regis in southeastern England. The lady is dressed in the latest London fashion in a narrow red dress without a crinoline, which in this provincial backwoods will begin to be worn only next season. Her tall companion ...