Life is a dream - a play by the Spanish playwright Pedro Calderon de la Barca, first presented in 1635. It is considered the most famous and significant play of Calderon. At the center of the work is the conflict between fate and duty, man and nature, power and personality....
That year was arid. It had not rained for several days, and Caleb Hunter was hiding from the heat in the shadow of the porch of a huge white house near the river. Caleb's father came to this area, tired of the bloody wars for freedom. And when he had to leave this house, he transferred with him to his son both the habit of being lazy and the love of mint....
"The Way of the World" is the last of four comedies written by William Congreve, the most famous of the plays of English playwrights of the Renaissance and the most perfect of the entire Kongre heritage. This is due to the fact that all these phenomena are associated with well-known, non-involvement in the time of its creation, in the specific circumstances of life in London at the end of the XVII century. I want to say that everyone has significant manifestations, most importantly - in human manifestations, they are inherent....
The Tale of Johnny Town House is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. The plot is based on Aesop's fable "The City Mouse and the Village Mouse." He talks about his friends in his homes. After studying the lifestyle of the other, both express a strong preference for their own. The book was critically well received....
"Phaedra" (French Phèdre) - a tragedy in five acts, a work of the French playwright Jean Racine. The play, originally called "Phaedra and Hippolytus" (Fr. Phèdre et Hippolyte), is written in an Alexandrian verse. The premiere took place in 1677. "Phaedra" is considered the pinnacle of Racine....
This secular comedy has a lot of witty salon chatter, spectacular aphorisms and paradoxes, it showed in all its splendor the art of Wilde as the most intelligent interlocutor: his dialogues are magnificent. Newspapers called him "the best of modern playwrights," noting the mind, originality, perfection of style. The sharpness of thoughts, the refinement of paradoxes are so admiring that the reader is intoxicated by them throughout the duration of the play....
It was an unsuccessful autobiographical novel, very confused chronologically, with events that did not line up in the big picture. Nevertheless, the novel was conceived in order to become aware of itself, its consciousness, its psyche based on the material of personal impressions and experiences, but not in a linear construction, but according to random bursts of emotions and manifestations of memory....
Thousands of underground-controlled hydrogen bombs have turned refuge cities into death traps. The Sanity League took care of several hundred men and women in the surviving cities. Between these cities, in the endless Dead Lands, moved by anything but simple humanity, two wanderers wandered - a man and a woman ......
Herbert Wells is a science fiction genius who skillfully combines mysticism and critical realism in his works. This oversight contains an ingenious simplicity idea: the worst of all horrors is fear. The plot is tied up during a short dialogue between a young man who does not believe in bringing a strange house, and its two inhabitants. Wanting to try his luck, he decides to spend the night in the red room......
One of Shakespeare’s most profound explicators is E.S. Bradley, a professor at Oxford University who has lectured on Shakespeare in Liverpool, Glasgow and Oxford. In this book, he laid the foundation for his outstanding book, Shakespeare's Tragedy, which provides a psychological analysis of the four tragedies that goes over to the philosophy of generalization: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth....
Edgar Thurston was a researcher who studied the zoology, ethnology and botany of India. According to the results of these studies, he has published many books and articles. In an effort to improve as a scientist, Thurston received a medical education, and also became interested in anthropology and ethnography. All this knowledge allowed him to study India more deeply and discover interesting features of this country for himself and for the whole world. Some of this information is contained in this book....
The Chiltern family seems perfect. He is a successful politician, she is a virtuous wife. But even ideal people have their secrets in the closet, and with the advent of the mysterious lady, this secret can become known to everyone. Oscar Wilde reflects on the possibility of an absolutely honest politician....
One of the earliest works of the American classic Eugene O’Neill, relating to his expressionist period. The focus of the plot is the clash of classes in capitalist America at the beginning of the 20th century. The play is about the humiliating difference between work and wealth, and people who become victims of this gap....
The action of the tragedy occurs immediately after the fall of Troy. Captured by Hekub, her daughter Cassandra and daughter-in-law Andromache learn that they are distributed among the leaders of the Achaeans - Odysseus, Agamemnon and Neoptolem, respectively. Her son Astianax, who is being thrown off the city wall, is taken from Andromache. Kassandra predicts misfortunes to the Achaeans on the way back and upon returning home. Tragedy shows the meaninglessness of a war that brings only unhappiness - not only to the vanquished, but also to the victors....
