The collection "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" by Oscar Wilde, a famous English writer of the 19th century, is a classic example of English prose. The fabulous motives and the “decorative” style of narration conceal the most important moral problems. The fairy tales reflected the aesthetic views of Oscar Wilde on art, the task of which the writer saw the creation of beauty, inaccessible to real life....
One night, a young man enters an Irish tavern and informs local residents from the threshold that he killed his despot dad - he broke his skull with a spade. Instead of being horrified and sending the young man to the police, he is declared a daredevil and a hero. Here the local princess Pegin Mike is in charge - the daughter of the owner of the establishment: as befits a real princess, she is reasonable and domineering. And, as soon as the murderer Christy Mehawn appears in the village, she declares him her employee. John Millington Singh claimed that he wrote primarily a play about the life...
Gedda Gabler, first of all, the daughter of her father, General Gabler, who, apparently, was an outstanding person. She would like to become like him. But female lack of freedom interferes with her. Hedda could choose with her motto, “Don't Touch Me.” She is one of those who are organically disgusted by not only physical, but also spiritual human “touch”, even if it comes to a man with whom, as she herself thinks, she is in love. This man is Eilert Levborg, now a successful author. Everything earthly for her went and is ugly. She needs beauty. She is looking for a hero, which, of course, is...
The history of ancient Egypt has about 40 centuries. Temporary borders begin in the 4th century and end with the Arab conquest in the 7th century. Ancient Egypt left a huge cultural heritage for world civilization; works of his art were exported to various parts of the world in ancient times and were widely copied by masters of other countries. Original architectural forms - magnificent pyramids, temples, palaces and obelisks inspired the imagination of travelers and explorers for many centuries....
The book is built as a protest of the philosophy against the inappropriately declared Christian church, the principles and real practical Christian church in the stories, as well as the inconsistency of reality. The text of the Antichrist actively criticizes the apostle Paul, who, according to Nietzsche, revealed God and gave in the Gospel "the most represented of all unused people - the undoubted teaching of personal immortality." Nietzsche confirms that Paul used to be a hallucination for proving the afterlife of Jesus Christ, and called the faithful in his teaching idiots....
Any war consists of a horde of personal tragedies, but a more complete picture is the tragedy of the death of a way of life. For a lifestyle - good, bad or indifferent - exists because it is very loved ......
Hardly had man solved his basic problems on the planet of his origin, he began to fumble in space. A century had passed in the exploration of the solar system when he began to grope for stars. And suddenly, with almost religious zeal, mankind gave birth to his fantasy dream of populating the galaxy. Never in the history of a race did ardor reach such a peak and lasted so long. The question of why, it would seem, was ignored. Millions of terrestrial planets beckoned, and desperate desperation of mankind flashed in them. But the obstacles were frightening in scope. The planets and satellites...
The Citadel is a story of deception, manipulation, and broken promises; his cynical anti-hero Marlo in every way - a man of generation after the Cold War - is powerful, manipulating, cold-blooded, lonely and devoid of friends. According to Marlowe, people are a "race of maniacs." That is why earthlings rule the galaxy. After all, our contracts are not binding, and our promises are useless. Our government does not represent our people. It represents our people as they once were. The delay in the democratic process is such that the agreement signed today fulfills the promise of yesterday, but...
Almost any phenomenon can be used - or act - for good or evil. Mutation usually brings evil, but also brings greatness. Change can go in any direction....
These days they talk a lot about secret weapons. If this is not a new wrinkle in nuclear fission, it is a weapon to shoot at corners and winding stairs. Or maybe a good new strain of bacteria is guaranteed to give you radioactive dandruff. Our own suggestion is to send some of our commercials to Russia and bring the enemy to death....
Contacts between different civilizations are extremely complex and dangerous. Many researchers have paid with their lives. But why is it so difficult to find mutual understanding?...
The Stokes Harding couple are creative personalities: Eric is a writer of “chilling romantic stories,” and Nada is a poetess. They were disgusted by civilization, progress and synthetic products, they liked the primitive nature, which, however, was no longer left on Earth. And they go for new sensations to Venus - to where this primitive nature is abundant! .....
Brett spent his whole life in the small town of Casperton. And then one day he decided to look at the world outside the city. The journey led to amazing discoveries....
Jardeen, the companion of Vesta, was the key. Jardine was large and powerful, with a space fleet not surpassed in any other world. A large group of now neutral worlds would follow Jardine’s example, and Jardine’s alliance with the People’s worlds of Verdam would mean a quick end for the Terran Republic. But, if Jardine can be persuaded to enter into an alliance with the Terran Republic, the spreading, clutching hands of the octopus Verdam’s hands will begin to die ......
