Distinctive features of people who changed the course of history: they are smart, they are foreigners, they all have Oedipus complex and some kind of physical disability. And this means that by inflicting injuries on infants and giving them upbringing for non-native families, great historical figures can be artificially raised....
Generally speaking, people are good passers-by, but there is one circumstance in which they refuse to transfer responsibility. If another says: “Your method will not solve the problem!” - then they get angry!...
Harley 2Q14N20 momentarily stopped at the large dome of Celestial Developments. Terribly, he looked at their map of the development of asteroids. He showed, as one would expect, the selection of the latest projects for the division of asteroids: Celestial Developments, founded in the distant 2045, will cope only with the best. It’s unlikely that he will find anything here!...
Mr. Oyster turned to the Providence Agency with a proposal to catch him for the future in our present. Presumably during a visit to the annual Oktoberfest in Germany....
To escape from Mars, all Clayton had to do was the impossible. Break out of a crack-proof exile camp--get onto a ship that couldn't be boarded--smash through an impenetrable wall of steel. Perhaps he could do all these things, but he discovered that Mars did evil things to men that he wasn't even Clayton any more....
Childhood Esther Summerston takes place in Windsor, in the house of her godmother, Miss Barbury. The girl feels lonely and often condemns, turning to her best friend, a ruddy doll: "You know perfectly well, doll, that I am a fool, so be kind, do not be angry with me." Esther seeks to know the secret of her origin and begs the godmother to tell at least something about her mother. Once Miss Barbery does not stand it and severely says: “Your mother covered herself with shame, and you brought shame on her. Forget about her ... ”Once, after returning from school, Esther finds herself in the house...
How hard it is to live if you were separated from your loved one, for whom I’m ready to give your life. It doesn’t matter what contributed to this. Heart is so sick. What is life after that? And what if you ruined your happiness with your own hands, you yourself rejected your beloved person and you understand that it was he who was the only one that could no longer be found ......
Everyone knows this girl: once she fell into a rabbit hole, and now she went through the mirror. Her name was Alice, she lived in Victorian England. Lewis Carroll wrote wonderful tales about the adventures of a curious girl - and for one and a half centuries they have been enthusiastically read by children and adults all over the world. In this book, the Victorian era comes to life - the very one when traditions were immensely respected, strictly followed etiquette, captivated by little things and transformed the world. Here you can learn the language of flowers and the art of shaking hands,...
One of Jack London's science fiction novels. The “fantastic” part of it may seem naive, but the sharp plot and bright, attractive characters make this work extremely interesting for the modern reader. The struggle of the oligarchs - financiers and manufacturers - and the desperate representatives of the lower classes is becoming more merciless. Is it possible to change the fate of millions without bringing the situation to bloody armed uprisings? This seems impossible until a strong union leader appears in America who can fight the capitalists on their own territory......
Olivia Schreiner was a writer in South Africa. Prominent Democrat South Africa. Born in a missionary family. The author's journalistic works are devoted to pressing issues for South Africa: the status of women, education, racial issues, etc. The Schreiner faith in human capabilities is reflected in the storybook "Dreams". The story "Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland" sounds a protest against the colonial war in South Africa and social injustice....
Alice Brown was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. In 1876 she graduated from Robinson's Seminary in Exeter. For five years after that, she worked as a school teacher, and then moved to Boston, where she decided to devote herself completely to writing. At first she worked in Christian Register magazine, and since 1885 - in Youth's Companion. For many years it enjoyed great fame and reputation as a prolific author, but its popularity waned after the beginning of the 20th century. She published one book a year until 1935, when she withdrew from writing....
The pinnacle of the work of the English writer, journalist and graphic artist William Makepeace Thackeray was the novel Vanity Fair. All characters of the novel - positive and negative - are involved, according to the author, in the "eternal circle of grief and suffering." Saturated with events, rich in subtle observations of everyday life of its time, imbued with irony and sarcasm, the novel "Vanity Fair" took pride of place in the list of masterpieces of world literature....
Daniel and Peachy arrived from Britain to India to undergo military service, but the soldiers had their own plans for life. Fraudulent friends intend to leave for the country called Kafiristan to become its rulers, and take possession of the treasures of the whole country hidden in the bowels of the mountains....
The novel "Hero of Our Time" was first published in 1840. Then no one could have imagined that the author’s life would end so soon, and many contemporaries predicted Mikhail Yuryevich a great future precisely as a prose writer. Gogol, in particular, remarked: "Lermontov the prose writer will be higher than Lermontov the poet." With his novel “The Hero of Our Time” Lermontov greatly expanded the scope of the literary tradition. Unusual was the composition of the work, consisting of five independent stories. A peculiar chronology of events and a constantly changing circle of heroes attracted...
