The action takes place in England in the second half of the 15th century, during the war of the Scarlet and White Roses. In the village of Thanstall, owned by Sir Daniel Brackley, a messenger appears who brings the order of Sir Daniel to the entire male population of the village to immediately march. The squad should lead Bennett
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In the family of a God-fearing merchant, a first-born son is born. Parents love him and constantly pray to him for God. The son grows up and is interested in commercial affairs, discovering in his conversations with his father a sound mind and ingenuity. When the merchant’s relatives are going to go overseas to trade, the son asks his father to give him three hundred rubles ...
Auguste Saint-Clair was not loved in the so-called "great light"; the main reason was that he tried to please only those who fit his heart. He walked towards one and carefully avoided the others. Moreover, he was careless and absent-minded. He was proud and proud. He cherished the opinions of others....
Sergeant Kite on the market square in Shrewsbury calls on everyone who is dissatisfied with their lives to enlist in the Grenadiers and promises ranks and money. He offers those who wish to try on a grenadier hat, but people listen with caution and are in no hurry to enlist in the army; but when Kite invites everyone to visit, ...
: Shipwrecked people accidentally end up on a populated island made up of shipwrecked ships where extraordinary adventures await them. The big transatlantic liner Benjamin Franklin leaves from Genoa to New York. On board is detective Jim Simpkins, forwarding ...
Street zucchini, vulgar and cheap, but with a claim to romance: huge identical ships sail around the wallpaper ... Easy unrealistic touch: the owner and the sex look like each other, like twins, one of the visitors is “spilled Verlaine”, the other - “spilled Hauptmann. " Drunken companies, loud noise....
Having received an invitation from the famous Pushkinist Schweitzer to come to Mikhailovskoye, the Leningrad restoration artist Nikolai Genrikhovich Vermel postponed hasty work on the frescoes of the Trinity Church in Novgorod and, together with his partner and student Pakhomov, went to Schweitzer, rummaging through the Mikhailovsky funds ...
Literaguru continues to acquaint you, our dear readers, with the novel by M.Yu. Lermontov “Hero of Our Time”. This time we decided to dwell in more detail on the chapter “Princess Mary”, important for the whole novel. There, Gregory meets his “friend” - a secular married lady, Vera, and quarrels with the junker Grushnitsky....
: At a turning point in the history of 1917-1918 the author speaks in newspaper articles about the war, revolution, the fate of the Russian people, whose spiritual salvation is completely dependent on culture and knowledge. The book consists of short notes by M. Gorky, published in the New Life newspaper in Petrograd with ...
At a certain stage in his life, when a person has already passed a certain part of the path, a certain period of time, he wants to stop, look back and analyze the important events that took place in his fate, as well as summarize the past. He recalls various cases and episodes from his life, expresses his ...
: A story of friendship and betrayal that forever changed the lives of two Afghan boys. Many years after the civil war, one of them returns to his homeland to correct childhood mistakes and atone for a friend who was once devoted to them. The narrative is based on the memories of an Afghan Amir ...
Everyone has such a vicious feeling as fear. Moreover, the instinct of self-preservation is laid at the genetic level, otherwise we would have already died out as a species long ago. Therefore, fear is normal and natural for every person. But it’s one thing if you know how to suppress it in yourself ...
In the Ural county town Uzle, an event: after a long absence, the young millionaire Sergei Alexandrovich Privalov returns. His arrival brings a noticeable variety to the life of the local matchmaker - Khioniya Alekseevna Zaplatina, "ladies of uncertain years with a faded face." She sees in Privalovo profitable ...
The sixtieth Soviet poetess, writer and translator created her first texts already from school age, giving rise to her own unique style. She will live all her life in Russia, having died at the age of 73 years, the years of her life will be from 1937 to 2010. Family Mother: Hope ...
Once on a ferry, Martin Eden, a sailor, twenty years old, defended Arthur Morse, Arthur from the gang of hooligans, about the same age as Martin, but belongs to wealthy and educated people. As a token of gratitude - and at the same time wishing to amuse the family with an eccentric acquaintance - Arthur invites ...
Mikhail spared his sister and never told her, but he himself knew why Yegorsha married her, so that he could take on her, a fool, his old grandfather, and be a free Cossack himself. But she loves him as much as it is worth talking about Yegorsh, as her eyes sparkle, her face flares up. But he betrayed her, went into the army ...
: A thriving economy is based on the principle of economic freedom. Based on the selfishness of the entrepreneur, the division of labor and free competition, the market provides justice and equality. Book 1 The book analyzes the economic factors that contribute to the growth of the wealth of peoples. Under ...
A certain pious man was cast down by the wicked in the prison, and he had a vision there: In the middle of the field, with his back to his habitation in the city of Death, there is a man bent under the heavy burden of sins. In his hands is the Book. From the Book of this man, the Christian, learned that the city will be burned by heavenly fire and all ...
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The subtle art of indifference