A classic of world literature, one of the most famous playwrights in the world. His works have been translated into more than one hundred languages. His plays, especially The Seagull, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, have been staged in many theaters around the world for over a hundred years. The story “The Darling” reflected Chekhov’s life impressions and memories associated with his stay in Taganrog, Moscow and Yalta, it reproduced real signs of the time. The image of the main character caused an ambiguous reaction among Chekhov's contemporaries, although in general, “The Darling” was...
The relationship of the past and the present, the interpenetration of reality and science fiction, romantic pathos and detailed biography, satirical grotesque form the ideological and artistic originality of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter”. Nathaniel Hawthorne - classic American writer. He is part of a galaxy of writers who stood at the origins of national American culture and determined its further development. `Scarlet Letter` is Hawthorne's first and most famous novel....
In his works, Prosper Merimet, a novelist, short-story writer, playwright and historian who became a classic of 19th-century French literature, addresses both historical events and the contemporary reality of France, shows interest in exoticism and colorful, distinctive characters. Proof of this is the novel "Carmen", which has become the basis of numerous ballet, opera, theater and film adaptations....
A novel in which Gaskell, referring to the life of Manchester weavers 30-40-ies. XIX century., Paints the difficult conditions of their work and life, reveals the high moral qualities of ordinary people. John Barton, the true hero of the novel, goes a long way from an ordinary worker to a chartered revolutionary and political leader....
The novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra tells the story of a middle-aged hero who had read chivalric novels and decided to become an itinerant knight. Nothing special: the text was written and perceived as an amusing parody of knightly novels loved by the reader of that time, but in reality everything turned out to be much more complicated. Don Quixote is an innovative work, and its influence on European literature began shortly after its release....
A small-volume, beautifully written story-parable about a magician-astrologer who set off on a journey beyond the Star of Bethlehem, but was late for a meeting with three other magi, was late for Bethlehem, not having caught the Great King whom He wanted to bring his gifts. All these failures occurred because he could not and did not want to leave those who turned to him for help in trouble. In the end, a meeting with the One whom he was looking for, nevertheless happens - the sorcerer, after many years of searching and wandering, having spent the precious gifts destined for the King is in...
The action begins in 1897 in the Australian outback. Hard farm work, on the uniformity of which no one complains except Sibylla Melvin. This young lady, contemptuously engaged in milking cows and dreaming of the glory of the pianist, is determined to make a brilliant career, which she writes about in her girl’s diary. Mother tells her daughter that she can no longer support such an adult girl, offers to go to... maids! But a saving letter comes from her grandmother with an invitation to move to her....
Cécile a dix-sept ans et passe ses vacances d’été avec son père dans une villa louée au bord de la Méditerranée. Mais l’arrivée d’Anne vient troubler ce délicieux désordre....
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title refers to an observation by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "The Adventure of Silver Blaze". Haddon and The Curious Incident won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Unusually, it was published simultaneously in separate editions for adults and children....
The #1 National Bestseller Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara -- a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee...
