In 1903, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov created a magnificent play in four acts. The Cherry Orchard is still a classic of the dramatic genre. Despite the fact that the work begins in the genre of comedy, towards the end you can notice (in principle, characteristic of the author) a combination of comic
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Stepanida and Petrok Bogatka live on the farm Jachymovschina, three kilometers from the town of Vyselki. Their son Fedya serves in the tank forces, daughter Fenya is studying "for a doctor" in Minsk. The war begins. The front swiftly sweeps east, the Germans come. There comes a terrible life in the unpredictability of new ills....
Northwest France. May morning of 1819. Jeanne, a blond girl with eyes like blue agates, the daughter of Baron Le Pertuis de Vaud, packs her bags herself and looks out the window again: the rain does not stop ... And I want to go! Jeanne has just returned to her parents' house from the monastery, where she was brought up ...
So many writers talk about human sorrows and joys, but they pay so little attention to our smaller brothers. This collection consists of literary examples that show the role of man in animal life and vice versa. We hope that these arguments can help you. ...
(213 words) “The Examiner” is a play by N. V. Gogol, which ridicules tyranny, bribery and nepotism of representatives of regional authorities. The main method of describing heroes by the author is the use of speaking surnames. They reflect the whole essence of the characters, their characters. Surname "Abdulin" ...
1915-1918 The American Frederick Henry is a lieutenant in the sanitary forces of the Italian army (the Italian because the United States has not yet entered the war, and Henry volunteered). Before the attack in the town on Plavna, where the sanitary units are located, there is a lull. Officers spend time as best they can - drink, play ...
“War is declared!” First World War. "Our company is in reserve." “Our age? we are all of different ages. Our regiment is a reserve; he was consistently replenished with reinforcements, either personnel units or militias. “Where are we from? From different areas. We came from everywhere. ” “What did we do? Yes, whatever you want. Who we were ...
At a certain stage in his life, when a person has already passed a certain part of the path, a certain period of time, he wants to stop, look back and analyze the important events that took place in his fate, as well as summarize the past. He recalls various cases and episodes from his life, expresses his ...
This summer morning in the village of Grachi began unusually: at dawn, all the inhabitants of the house of the poor landowner Anna Pavlovna Adueva were already on their feet. Only the culprit of this fuss, the son of Adueva, Alexander, slept, "how to sleep a twenty-year-old boy, a heroic dream." The turmoil reigned in the Rooks because ...
: Telling people parables and stories of moral and philosophical content, a wandering philosopher preaches the doctrine of the Superman, but the world is indifferent to the words of the sage. The novel consists of four parts, each of which contains parables on various moral and philosophical topics. Poetically rhythmic in style ...
The story is included in the collection "Girl from the Earth." The narration is on behalf of the pope of the girl Alice. Instead of a preface The end of the 21st century. Girl Alice went to first grade. In the morning she was congratulated by numerous friends, not only from the Earth, but also from other planets. When the turmoil calmed down a bit, Alisin ...
(355 words) Nikolai Gogol in his work “The Examiner” accurately described all the characters with a speaking surname. The work is filled with brilliant humor and its characteristic irony. In The Examiner, all characters with speaking surnames are common nouns, showing human readers ...
(275 words) Probably only the lazy did not write about love, its miraculous properties, power, influence on the human soul. She can make a difference in our lives. It does not make sense to re-describe all the charm of this feeling. But it’s worth mentioning the magical ability of love to unite people, ...
King Eric is a strange and eccentric figure; he is extremely suspicious and prone to unexpected decisions. Disturbing the courtyard, he settled in his Stockholm palace a mistress - the soldier's daughter Karin, whom he sincerely loves and from whom he already has two children. But at the same time he, as befits a monarch, ...
1945 An unusual family of the Jordahs lives in the city of Port Philippe. In this family no one loves anyone. Father, Axel Djordah, works in his own bakery and hates this work and this country. His wife believes that he ruined her life and her dreams. Raised in strict rules in a monastery shelter, ...
The beginning of the 20s. Petersburg, painted "greenish, flickering and blinking, terrible color, phosphoric." The author, appearing in the preface, ends his opening speech with the words: “I do not like Petersburg, my dream has ended”. The hero of the novel, Teptyolkin, is a “mysterious creature” - long, thin, ...
There are at least five regions on Earth whose inhabitants are distinguished by their enviable longevity, health and vitality. Dan Buttner, as part of the National Geographic project, conducted several expeditions to each of these “blue zones” and found out what are the circumstances from diet to life settings for this ...
When Richard was born, a hurricane ravaged the trees. Foreshadowing the timelessness, an owl shouted and an owl cried, dogs howled, a raven ominously croaked and magpies chattered. In the most difficult birth, a shapeless lump came into being, from which its own mother recoiled in horror. The baby was a hunchback, a crook ...
So said Zarathustra
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