An excellent representative of the post-war genre, when the public is tired of cruelty and wants a little tenderness and lightness. The book tells the continuation of the story of two girls - the sisters Mavis and Merle, and their family, but the story is independent and can be read separately....
The Boer War (1899–1902) made a deep impression on contemporaries. In this war, the Boer farmers armed with the most modern weapons won several brilliant victories over the British regular army. On the battlefields of the Boer War, Mauser rifles and Maxim machine guns opposed the tactics of the Napoleonic Wars, which continued to adhere to the European army. After the last Boer army was defeated, a fierce guerrilla war continued for another two years. The British Empire ultimately won, but paid for it with a loss of twenty thousand soldiers. After the war, the British went to a completely...
“The Wind in the Willows” is a children's story that children and adults read with equal pleasure. Written and published at the beginning of the last century in England, it has spread around the world, translated into many languages. Readers fell in love with her heroes - the rational and kind Mole, the hospitable, reasonable Water Rat, the conceited Toad, the severe, reliable friendship Badger and other inhabitants of the River Bank and the inhospitable Wild Thicket. Their adventures, funny, and sometimes dangerous, end well only because they are all ready to come to each other's rescue....
"Amphitryon" (1668) is a comedy play by the famous French comedian Jean-Baptiste Moliere. The king of the gods, Jupiter, inflamed with passion for Alkmena, the wife of Thebes commander Amphitrion, and, while he leads his troops to Boeotia, sends Mercury to Night so that she hides Jupiter's love joy under her cover......
In the collection “Sketches New and Old”, which includes short stories written at the turn of the 70s, the satirical denunciation of the glaring contradictions of American society and the ruthless and fierce competition in it continues. In a satirically sharpened, contrasting picture, the writer characterizes, in his own words, "the gap between the due and the existing." He created a whole gallery of satirical portraits of American "businessmen of the church" selling oil, cotton, speculators on the grain exchange, figures of the American Bible Society, accomplices of bankers Morgan and Dupon....
Hannibal Hamlin Garland is an American novelist, poet, and essayist. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize of 1922. Known for his work on farmers in the Midwestern United States. The author of the trilogy about life in the Midwest "A Son of the Middle Border", 1917; "A Daughter of the Middle Border", 1921; "Back-trailers from the Middle Border", 1928....
John Smith is an English writer and sailor who stood at the origins of Jamestown, the first British settlement in the territory of the modern United States. In the imagination of the masses, the name of Captain John Smith is associated with a story he himself told about his "romantic relationship" with the daughter of an Indian chief named Pocahontas....
Once in the Land of Oz, where there are neither rich nor poor, no enmity or envy, and life there is just a celebration of sociability and friendliness, a misfortune happened - the Skizers declared war on the Flat-headed! Obedient to the call of duty, armed with a magic wand, the Great Sorceress Ozma, the ruler of the Land of Oz, hurries to them. Along the way, she is accompanied by a friend, Princess Dorothy, a girl from Kansas. Their life is in mortal danger, but in the Magic Land of Good Evil is always punishable. And friendly help comes on time. “Glinda from the Land of Oz” is the last...
Israel Zangwill is an English writer and activist in the Jewish movement. The author of the famous phrase in relation to the USA is “Melting Pot”. The son of emigrants from the Polish Kingdom of the Russian Empire. He studied at the Jewish Free College in London....
This ironic, witty and extremely informative story about the American journey through the Old World captivated the readers and spread in a huge circulation. And Mark Twain himself, who first tried his hand in the genre of travel notes, came to the conclusion that anyone who has been living in a corner of the world for a century will never learn tolerance, will not be able to look at life broadly and sensibly. Almost one hundred and fifty years after the release of his book, it is difficult to disagree with him....
