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The Wizard of Oz

: An ordinary girl finds herself in the Magic Land, where good and evil sorceresses live, where animals and even a scarecrow of straw and lumberjack made of iron speak human language. Hurricane In the middle of the Kansas steppe, poor farmer John and his wife live in a small wagon pulled off the wheels ...

Sofya Petrovna

USSR, 30s After the death of her husband, Sofya Petrovna enters typewriting courses in order to get a specialty and to be able to support herself and her son Kolya. Being competent and accurate and having received the highest qualification, she easily gets a job at a large Leningrad publishing house and soon ...

The Return of Don Quixote

An amateur performance staged in the halls of the former medieval abbey, and now the estates of Baron Siwood, changed the fate of its participants and many other people, contributed to the centuries-old struggle of revolutionary socialists and conservative aristocrats, turned out to be a very instructive episode in history ...

The history of Russian journalism of the 18th century

News, releases, various articles and reviews are things that a person in one way or another encounters daily. Most people learn about important events in the world through journalism. Journalism is not just a text in a newspaper, but a special social phenomenon that can provide continuous ...

twelfth Night, or Anything

The comedy takes place in a country fabulous for the British Shakespearean time - Illyria. The duke of Illyria Orsino is in love with the young Countess Olivia, but she is in mourning after her brother’s death and does not even accept the duke’s envoys. Olivia’s indifference only incites the duke’s passion. Orsino accepts for service ...

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Mirgorod

: A collection of four stories based on Ukrainian folklore is positioned as a continuation of “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka”. Old-world landowners Old men Afanasy Ivanovich Tovstogub and his wife Pulkheria Ivanovna lived in a remote village - such settlements in Little Russia were called "old-world"....

Abduction of a bull from Kualnga

This most extensive of the sagas about the hero of the Irish epic, Kuhulin, is sometimes called the "Irish Iliad."It is dominated by the theme of war between the Ulad and the Connaught. The reason for the war was the abduction at the behest of Medb, the Queen of Connaught, a beautiful brown bull of divine origin, belonging ...

Flexible mind: a new look at the psychology of the development of adults and children

What are the attitudes Attitude (inner beliefs) determines the type of thoughts and actions, the direction of the life path: what to strive for, what is the meaning of effort, what is success and failure. There are two types of attitudes: For granted - success is ensured by the immutability of the mind and other qualities. ...

Royal hunt

Moscow. Early spring 1775 Count Grigory Grigorievich Orlov due to the fact that he is in the retinue of Empress Catherine, who comes to Moscow, gets the opportunity to see her brother. He catches his brother in drunkenness and all kinds of amusements. Alex flirts with women, the other day he fought with someone....

Black chicken, or Underground inhabitants

About forty years ago, in St. Petersburg on Vasilyevsky Island, there was a landlord of a male guesthouse. Among the thirty or forty children who studied at that hostel there was one boy named Alyosha, who was then no more than 9 or 10 years old. His parents, who lived far, far from St. Petersburg, ...

US Literature

Last sleep

Thirty-three-year-old narrator hero Philip Marlo, who had previously worked in the Los Angeles County Attorney's Office, has now become a private investigator and is investigating cases in which his clients are definitely not interested in publicizing them. He arrives at the home of millionaire Guy Sternwood, who tells Marlowe that someone ...

Soviet literature

Chevengur

Four years later, during the fifth famine, he drove people to cities or forests - there was a crop failure. Zakhar Pavlovich remained alone in the village. Over the long life of his hands not a single product passed, from a frying pan to an alarm clock, but Zakhar Pavlovich himself had nothing: neither a family, nor a dwelling. One night, when Zakhar Pavlovich ...

Nonfixing

State of the future

Introduction What is the role of the state in a developed industrial society? To answer this question, for a start, four theoretical positions should be designated as a framework for discussion. We will call these positions. Classical liberalism. Libertarian socialism. State socialism. State ...

British literature

Counterpoint

A few months in the life of the so-called intellectual elite of London. Friendly conversations, principled disputes, social gossip, family and love troubles ... In music, counterpoint is a kind of polyphony in which all voices are equal. And this principle is respected in the novel ...