The novel "Main Street" brought the author literary fame and placed him among the most significant American writers of that era. Sinclair Lewis's work evolved under the sign of the great events of the twentieth century: the first imperialist war, the October Socialist Revolution. Social inequality at this point became more apparent. Imperialist America presented itself as a rattling reinforced concrete hell with the bestial rudeness of possessive customs. From the feeling of heartlessness and cruelty of modern bourgeois civilization, the theme of the tragedy of a depressed and impersonal...
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen, and, with the difference in a few days, by the British expedition of Scott, in Antarctica there was only one big goal for travel - crossing the continent from sea to sea....
J. M. Barrie is a Scottish playwright and novelist, author of a series of fabulous works about Peter Pan. Since 1897, Barry has turned to drama. He is famous for Quality Street, a comedy depicting England at the beginning of the 19th century. Barry’s plays, among which “What Every Woman Knows,” introduced him to the circle of outstanding playwrights of the time....
Very much in love with her husband, Charity Coe Cheever discovers that her husband is in love with Zada L'Etoile, a popular dancer, and so she divorces him. Jim Dyckman, who has always loved Charity since their childhood days, after finding it impossible to win Charity had married film actress Kedzie Thropp. When Jim is free but Charity is not, Jim is very disappointed, but both decide to make the best of it....
Cory Doctorow is a journalist, science fiction writer and political activist. One of the founders of boing-boing.net, a popular portal on science, culture and politics, coordinator of the human rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation, a regular author of many magazines and newspapers....
In 1877, Symonds began to have severe pulmonary hemorrhage, and since 1880 he began to live in a mountain resort in Davos in Switzerland, choosing a climate that is useful for treating tuberculosis. Here he created his most famous work, glorifying it in the 19th century. This was a seven-volume study in the field of culture and aesthetics called “Renaissance in Italy”. He also wrote studies of the poetry of Shelley (1879), Ben Johnson (1886), Michelangelo (1893), and Walt Whitman (1893), with whom he corresponded. He also published the first English translation of Sonnets by Michelangelo...
The comedy of the French playwright and poet Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" still does not leave the theatrical stage of many countries of the world. In a duel for the love of beautiful Roxanne, two met. The limited and narrow-minded Christian is handsome; Cyrano is courageous in military affairs, but timid in love, his words and feelings are sublime and beautiful, but his face is ugly and ridiculous. But in the end it becomes clear: the main thing is not appearance, but the individuality of each person....
"Madame Bovary" is a great novel by the French writer Gustave Flaubert. The main character, Emma Bovary, suffers from the inability to fulfill her dreams of a brilliant, secular life full of romantic passions. Instead, she is forced to eke out the monotonous existence of the wife of a poor provincial doctor. The painful atmosphere of the outback strangles Emma, but all her attempts to escape beyond the bounds of a gloomy world are doomed to failure: a boring husband cannot satisfy his wife's requests, and her outwardly romantic and attractive lovers are actually egocentric and cruel. Is...
George Barr McCutchen is an American writer and playwright. The most famous novel is "Millions of Brewster" and a series of Ruritanian novels about the state of Graustark....
He was the main character in the literary world of England during the era of Queen Victoria, became the first master pen who lived on the money earned by writing work. And he turned out to be the first English celebrity in the modern sense of the word - he became a "star", which idolized admirers idolized. And at the same time, Dickens always led a double life - a public person and a person obsessed with excruciating complexes and passions....
In the play-mask “Komus”, the author praises the virtue typical of Puritan moral rigorism. The evil spirit Komus tries in vain to seduce a young Lady who has lost her way in the forest. The forest in the play symbolizes the intricacies of human life. Comus personifies vice. The lady, embodied chastity, firmly confronts the temptations and charms of Komus and emerges victorious from the duel....
South Wind is the most famous book of the English writer Norman Douglas (1868–1952), which has survived more than two dozen reprints in its homeland and translated into many languages. The novel takes place on the fictional island of Nepent, whose name means a medicine that relieves pain and suffering or “bliss”, but it is here that the heroes will face difficult trials......
The fame of Douglas was brought by the satirical novel South Wind (1917), whose theme was suggested to the author by Joseph Conrad and who was highly appreciated, among others, by Vladimir Nabokov. Graham Greene wrote that his generation grew up on South Wind, but Douglas himself placed his book of notes on travels in Greece, Austria, Italy, North Africa, India and others above all, which, among other things, opened the Italian South to several generations of Englishmen....
Charles Perrault (1628-1703) - famous French storyteller, poet and critic. The tales of Charles Perrault are familiar to everyone since childhood. Who has not heard the fairy tale for children about the resourceful Cat in boots, about the bold Little Red Riding Hood, about the beautiful Sleeping Beauty, about the strong Boy-s-finger and about the kind Cinderella! As well as beautiful tales Sorceress, Bluebeard, Rike with a crest, Donkey skin and Gingerbread house. For more than three hundred years, all the children of the world love and know these tales....
Laura is the daughter of Dr. Nesbit. She plans to marry Grant Adams, a reporter with the newspaper. To make him jealous, Laura flirts with Tom VanDorn, an unscrupulous lawyer. Grant's heart is broken and he seeks comfort from the man-devourer Margaret Muller....
