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Continuation of new stories at the burning lamp

Notes on a screen with lotus flowers A young official named Ying set off by water to a duty station. The boatman took a look at their goods, threw Ina into the river, killed the servants, and decided to marry the widow, Ms. Wang, as her son. The young lady, lulled by obedience to the vigilance of the thief, through a short ...

Pugachev's story

: The historical story set forth by Pushkin on the basis of historical documents is devoted to the Pugachev uprising. She conceived at the same time as the “Captain’s daughter” and came out with the permission of Nicholas I. Chapter One Pushkin gives various versions of historians about the occurrence of Cossacks on the Yaik River, renamed ...

252. An event to which one cannot remain indifferent

A man is so arranged that his heart cannot react to everything that happens around. He learns to protect himself from stress and unrest, otherwise it will become impossible to live. But there are events that cannot leave people indifferent, they are obliged to respond to them. What are these circumstances ...

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School for Fools

The hero studies at a special school for demented children. But his illness is different from the condition in which most of his classmates are. Unlike them, he doesn’t hang cats on the fire escape, doesn’t behave stupidly and wildly, doesn’t spit in anyone’s face at long breaks and does not urinate in ...

Analysis of S. Yesenin's “Birch”

The poet devoted many of his works to nature. For Sergei Yesenin, birch is an eternal symbol of the motherland. In his childhood memories, the image of this Russian beauty was invariably present. History of creation The poem is one of the first in the early works of the poet. It was written in 1913 ...

Werewolf holy book

: The life and love story of a werewolf fox who spent the last years of her life at the beginning of the 21st century in Moscow. The introduction says that a novel by an unnamed author was accidentally found under dramatic circumstances in Bitsevsky Park, walked around the country for a long time in manuscripts, and finally was printed, while publishers ...

Chapaev and the Void

The narration is conducted on behalf of one of the most famous poets of St. Petersburg, Peter Nether. The first part of the Winter of 1918. In the center of post-revolutionary Moscow, Peter came across a former classmate and poet von Ernen. He now served in the Cheka and invited an old friend to his huge, confiscated from someone ...

Sand teacher

: A geography teacher teaches people how to deal with sand and survive in a harsh desert. Twenty-year-old Maria Nikiforovna Naryshkina, the daughter of a teacher, “hailing from the sandy town of the Astrakhan province” looked like a healthy young man “with strong muscles and firm legs”. His health Naryshkina ...

Pearl

The action takes place in a small village on the Gulf in the Mexican part of California. The protagonist, Kino, a poor pearl catcher, wakes up in his modest reed hut; next to him are his wife Juan and baby Coyotito, sleeping in a drawer suspended from the ceiling. Feeding the baby, Juan again ...

Don Juan, or Stone guest

Having left his young wife, Donja Elvira, Don Juan rushed in pursuit of another beauty captivating him. He was not at all embarrassed that in the city where he had arrived in her wake and where he intended to abduct her, six months before the commander had been killed by him - why worry if Don Juan killed him honestly ...

US Literature

Gabriel Conroy

For the first time, we meet the heroes in March 1848 in the California Sierra, when they almost die of hunger, because they had already lost their way in a snowstorm for a long time and set up camp in a canyon. Two of them, Philip Ashley, a young man of extraordinary intelligence and a strong character, and his lover ...

Soviet literature

Forever - Nineteen Years Old

: A young wounded soldier in a hospital falls in love with a high school student. Returning to the front, he is again injured. He is sent to the hospital, he is looking forward to meeting with his beloved, but falls under fire. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional. Serious wound Volodya Tretyakov fought since December 1941 ...

British literature

Chenchi

The action takes place in Italy in the 16th century, when Pope Clement VIII sits on the papal throne. Count Chenci, a wealthy Roman nobleman, the head of a large family, became famous for his dissoluteness and heinous atrocities, which he did not even consider it necessary to hide. He is confident in his impunity because ...