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Flags on the towers

: 30s of the XX century. The roads of street children converge in a labor colony named after May Day. Common life changes their characters and turns them into worthy citizens of the young Soviet Republic. Part 1 This story began about the fate of several street children at the end of the first five-year plan. They all turned out to be ...

Art of War

Planning, calculating and comparing armies leads to victory. If a state goes to war, it fights for its survival. This knowledge should be used for planning. A general who carefully plans before the battle will defeat the one who does not. Before the battle, think and plan everything....

Sailor

: An orphan youth is going to serve instead of his family fellow villager. During a hurricane, he saves his comrades at the cost of his own life .. For two days, a military clipper withstood a fierce hurricane in the Indian Ocean. Finally the storm subsided and the danger passed. Having not slept for two days, the captain went to rest....

The nineties

The novel The Nineties is the first part of the famous trilogy, which also includes the novels Golden Miles (1948) and Winged Seeds (1950). The trilogy covers sixty years of Australian history, dating back to the nineties of the eighteenth century. The same heroes act in it; their fate and relationship writer ...

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Images of princes in the poem "The Word of Igor's Campaign"

(351 words) “The word about Igor’s regiment” is a work that is a historical monument of ancient literature: despite the small volume, the poem contains a description of Igor’s feat of troops, a landscape picture of ancient Russia and images of princes who ruled in the 12th century. In his work, the author avoids ...

Galosha

: A man loses galosha in a tram, which falls into the camera for lost things. To get the thing back, he spends several days and during this time loses the second galosh. The narration is conducted in the first person. The narrator lost a galosh in the tram - it’s clear that “some Arkharist” stepped on his heel, ...

Cruelty

County Siberian town of Dudari. The narration is conducted on behalf of the participant in the described events, which he recalls many years later. The author of the story, who is never named in the story (hereinafter referred to as the Author), is on the criminal wanted list together with his friend Veniamin Malyshev, ...

Summary of the novel "War and Peace" by chapter: Volume 1

Author: · Published · Updated “War and Peace” - the most ambitious, truly epoch-making work in the school curriculum. Its reading takes many summer evenings, but not all important details settle in memory. They say that the author himself hardly watched the course of his thoughts, so often ...

121. Should traditions be kept faithful?

Traditions - the centuries-old wisdom of the people, what makes them one and one. However, with the passage of history, living conditions change. Do I need to be faithful to tradition? This question was asked by many authors. I believe that it is necessary, since customs connect generations and preserve history. However from the negative ...

The Hunger Games

: Far future. The Hunger Games are a reminder of the brutally crushed rebellion.To survive the Games, the heroine must kill a friend, but she remains herself, choosing love and friendship. The novel is written on behalf of the main character Katniss Everdeen. Part I. Attributes Panem State, formed on ...

US Literature

It’s not easy to find a good person

The story takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia. The head of the Bailey family wants to take his children - his eight-year-old son John, daughter June, his wife with an infant and his mother to Florida. But Bailey's mother, the grandmother of the children, is trying to dissuade the family from going there. First, they were already there. ...

Soviet literature

Mysterious box

“In Siberia, in an area where there are a lot of wolves,” the narrator met a hunter who was a partisan during the Civil War. The narrator asked the old partisan whether the wolves in these places attacked a person. He replied that this happened, but a person has weapons and strength, and the wolf ...

British literature

Don Juan

“Epic poem” - according to the author’s review, but in fact - a novel in poems, “Don Giovanni” - the most important and most ambitious work of the late stage of Byron’s work, the subject of constant reflection of the poet and fierce polemic of criticism. Like Eugene Onegin, the late Byron’s masterpiece breaks short....