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Belogrudka

: Village children kill marten children, and she begins to take revenge until she dies from a hunter's gun. A small village of three houses, Zuyat, stands between two lakes. Behind the village there is a steep slope, overgrown with a dense forest of spruce and fir mixed with elderberry and raspberry. Here, without fear of people, they live ...

The Life of Theodosius of the Caves

The pious parents of St. Theodosius lived in the city of Vasilyev. When their son was born, on the eighth day he was given a name, on the fortieth - they christened him. Then the blessed parents moved to the city of Kursk. The boy grew up, went to church every day, avoided children's games, and his clothes were shabby and in patches....

Al-Issa

The original of this work is read in just 6 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. : A young man from a noble family decides to become the husband of the Death Goddess. After going through terrible trials, he receives a toothless old woman as a wife. Centuries before the birth of Christ in the very center of Hindustan ...

The image of man in the work of Gogol

(335 words) The work of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol is of great value to all Russian classical literature. The writer's works are largely attracted by their diverse characters, whose image is the personification of various negative social phenomena. Consider the image of man ...

Humphrey Clinker Travel

Humphrey Clinker's Journey is the last work of an English writer: the novel was published a few months before his death in Livorno, where Smollett voluntarily went into a kind of “exile”. The novel was written in an epistolary style, which was not an innovation for English literature; ...

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Enterprise Science: 24 Steps to a Successful Start

Market Segmentation Determine which market niches are most promising for your idea or technology. Make sure customers really buy your product and market share grows. Consider all options for using a product or service. Identify specific markets and applications ...

Martin Eden

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 ...

Moscow - Petushki

Venichka Erofeev travels from Moscow to the Moscow region regional center called Petushki. There lives the hero’s chilliness, delightful and unique, to which he travels on Fridays, having bought a bag of “Cornflower” chocolates as a hotel. Venichka Erofeev has already begun his journey. The day before he took a glass of bison, ...

Island of the dead ships

: 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 ...

How to write well: classic non-fiction writing guide

Part I. Principles of Interaction The main occupation of a professional non-fiction writer is work on the text. Writing is a craft. A person who does not write due to lack of inspiration evades his work and cannot earn his bread. Writers are hardworking loners. They rarely see colleagues ...

Crime and Punishment

60s of the XIX century The poor district of St. Petersburg, adjacent to Sennaya Square and the Catherine Canal. Summer evening. Former student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leaves his closet in the attic and takes as mortgage to the old woman the interest-bearing woman Alena Ivanovna, who is preparing to kill, the last valuable thing. On the reverse ...

The birth of a story

: The writer goes to the cottage to write a story that did not work out for him in Moscow. The owners of the cottage inspire the writer to tell the story of the power of the Russian language. The writer Muravyov composed a story about work for one of the Moscow magazines, but nothing came of it. It seemed to Muravyov that the story did not work out ...

US Literature

A Sound of Thunder

Amateur hunter Eckels buys a time travel in the Mesozoic era. The damn adventure a real hunter could ever dream of. Traveling sixty million years ago and the greatest booty of all time. Hunter Travis reports severe restrictions. To kill ...

Soviet literature

Deer horns

A sixteen-year-old girl has long been living in a holiday home on the Baltic coast, near Riga. She is ill and begins to leave the house only on the fourth day. She likes pine forests and the sea frozen off the coast. Like everyone recovering, the girl is unreasonably happy. She walks for a long time, and everything around ...

British literature

Second spot

: The Minister has lost an important letter.Sherlock Holmes discovers that the letter was stolen by the wife of the minister, who was blackmailed by a former lover, a well-known spy, and returns the document without giving out the woman. Trelawney Hope, Minister for European Affairs, seeks help from the great detective Sherlock Holmes. He comes ...