Literature
"The Picture of Dorian Gray": quotes from the book
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is one of the most famous works of Oscar Wilde. The protagonist sought to preserve youth by spending his time in idleness and pleasure. This book is about the fact that in the weather for pleasures one cannot neglect the moral component
Lilia Kim: biography, personal life, creativity
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Liliya Kim is a woman who today can be safely attributed to one of the most successful contemporary writers in Russia. In addition to the fact that she systematically publishes her new books, Kim is also a screenwriter who works on many projects, including on Channel One
Bunin's story "Dark alleys": a summary
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The story "Dark Alleys" is able to give readers a wonderful story about the fate of two people in a chance meeting. A summary of this work with a description of the main points is present in the article
Svetlana Lavrova: biography, creativity, works, reviews
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The article tells about the children's writer Svetlana Lavrova and her works. The memoirs of the writer herself about childhood, school years are given. A description is given of the most famous books of the author, among which there are both cognitive and artistic ones
Sergey Pereslegin: biography and creativity
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Today we will tell you who Sergei Pereslegin is. The biography of this literary figure and his main works are discussed in this material. He was born in 1960, December 16, in Leningrad
Aksakov's works. Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov: list of works
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Aksakov Sergey Timofeevich was born in 1791 in Ufa and died in Moscow in 1859. This is a Russian writer, public figure, official, memoirist, literary critic, and also the author of books about hunting and fishing, collecting butterflies. He is the father of the Slavophiles, public figures and writers Ivan, Konstantin and Vera Aksakov. In this article we will consider the works of Aksakov in chronological order
Vladislav Krapivin, "Stars in the rain" - summary and analysis of the work
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In Vladislav Krapivin's story "Stars in the Rain", a boy decides to turn an ordinary umbrella into a starry sky. What for? You will learn about this by reading the summary of the work and its analysis
Alexander Karasev: biography and creativity
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All critics, describing the work of Karasev, single out the same distinctive features, call it "concentrated", "impressionistic" and at the same time very simple and even mundane, devoid of any artistic details. However, in assessing these features, critics cannot come to the same opinion
Stepan Shchipachev is an almost forgotten poet
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Few today remember the name of the poet Stepan Petrovich Shchipachev. However, for the generation of Soviet citizens of the 40s and 50s, he was as well known as A. Tvardovsky or K. Simonov. His poems were read, learned by heart, copied into notebooks. This story will be about the life and work of the almost forgotten poet
Evgeny Vodolazkin, "Aviator": reviews
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The book "Aviator" is a novelty of 2016, which instantly became a bestseller and entered the list of nominees for several prestigious literary awards. What is the secret of her popularity?
Felix Krivin: writing skills
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Trying to unambiguously define the creative profile of the writer Felix Krivin is a meaningless task. He is inimitable in many genres, although all of them are related to humor in one way or another. He writes fables, fairy tales, aphorisms, poems, parodies, instructive books for children
What does the work “Yawning Heights” by A. Zinoviev tell about?
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The history of Russian literature keeps many wonderful examples of art written in various genres. However, the 20th century most fully illuminated the problem of the need to create a new novel that combines realism, fantasy, satire, and appeal to philosophy and sociology. All this was most fully embodied in the novel "Yawning Heights", the author of which was the Soviet sociologist A. Zinoviev
Love-fiction novels: such different books
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Today, one work can combine completely different things: passionate love, fights and murders, lyrics and philosophical reflections, parallel worlds and unknown planets. And among all this book abundance, love-fiction novels have taken their strong place
The fairy tale of Charles Perrault "Donkey skin": summary, main characters, reviews
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The fairy tale "Donkey Skin" tells about the fate of a princess who, due to circumstances, is forced to flee the palace and pretend to be a dirty maid. A retelling of the plot with analysis and information about the film of the same name can be found in this article
Which ancient poet wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
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The question of which ancient poet wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey is of a historical nature, because these works are not only the first monuments of ancient Greek literature, but also the first in the literature of Europe
"Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen: a summary. "Peer Gynt": characters, plot, theme
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People say that it is impossible to bypass fate, everyone will experience what is destined for him. The main thing is not to betray yourself, to believe in love. The famous Norwegian playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen addressed this topic in his work "Peer Gynt". The author was afraid that the poem "Peer Gynt" would not be understood outside of Norway, as it is very rich in the features and characteristics inherent in this country. But the work has gained worldwide fame
Maxim Bogdanovich: biography, works, interesting facts from life
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Bogdanovich Maxim - literary critic, translator, poet, who sang of his native Belarus and expressed in lyrical lines boundless, sincere love for his people
Anastasia Kovalchuk: the work of the writer
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Anastasia Kovalchuk is a modern writer from Belarus. Anastasia's books gained fame thanks to an interesting plot and funny main characters
William Saroyan: biography, creativity and photos
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He was distinguished by such qualities as education, diligence, tact. All of them were harmoniously intertwined with talent and natural inspiration, which is why he became a great writer and playwright. William Saroyan became famous and famous far from immediately, his path to fame and recognition was thorny and difficult
Prose writer is The meaning of the word
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Literature is a complex science. It, like any other, has its own terms. For example, a prose writer. This is one of the stable words, which for a simple person, far from the world of books, may be incomprehensible
American writer Jerome David Salinger: biography, creativity
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There are writers whose life is no less interesting than their work. These include Jerome Salinger, whose biography is full of events. These are philosophical searches for oneself, the study of many sciences, the Second World War, service in intelligence, returning home and recognition for stories and the only published novel. You can make a movie about it. Only now the writer forbade doing this, as well as filming his books. Why this happened, you will learn from our article
Quidditch is Quidditch: features, game rules and championship
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Quidditch is a game invented by JK Rowling. However, she has long moved from books and films to real life
Fan expressions are new figurative expressions. Their origin and significance
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Winged expressions are a cultural layer that has a great influence on the development of society. Their origins are laid in ancient culture and are developing in all countries, including Russia
Kahlen Amnell - who is this?
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Kahlen Amnell is a literary and serial hero who was invented by the famous American writer Terry Goodkind. Kahlan is one of the key characters in the Sword of Truth and Kahlan and Richard cycles. Want to learn more about this heroine? Read this article
The mysterious inscription on the Ring of Omnipotence from the epic "The Lord of the Rings": the history of appearance, translation and meaning
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Although many years have passed since the release of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the story of the Ring of Omnipotence still excites the minds of viewers. Among the attributes of this story, which are so often bought by fans, this particular ring with an engraved pattern of elven runes continues to be the most popular
Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky: biography in brief
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In the old bureaucratic district of Moscow, on Malaya Ordynka, at the beginning of the 19th century, the famous writer and playwright A. N. Ostrovsky was born, whose biography is filled with participation in the bright events of the theatrical and literary life of Russia at that time
Gogol's grave at the Novodevichy cemetery. The mystery of Gogol's grave
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One of the most mystical personalities in Russian literature is N. V. Gogol. During his lifetime, he was a secretive person and took with him many secrets. But he left brilliant works in which fantasy and reality are intertwined, beautiful and repulsive, funny and tragic. Today we will talk about his last charade, left to posterity - the secret of Gogol's grave
Life on the sidelines. Books by the Strugatskys
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It is unlikely that the work of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, whose works date back to the 60s - the end of the 80s, can be called Soviet science fiction. They reveal too deep layers of human relationships both with the real world and with other worlds and the people who inhabit them. The books of the Strugatskys have become a guide in the world of fantasy for several generations of readers
Balmont "Fantasy". silver Age
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Russian symbolist poet Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont wrote the poem "Fantasy" in 1893. In this immortal lyrical work, he described his own impressions of the wonderful nature and the sleeping forest
Biography of Leo Tolstoy - the great Russian writer
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Do you know Leo Tolstoy? The short and complete biography of this writer is studied in detail during his school years. However, like great works
Belarusian fairy tales: through the wisdom of centuries
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Cozy under the covers, every night the child looks forward to this amazing moment. Mom enters the room where the lamp is dimly lit and, stroking the baby’s head, begins an amazing story about fearless warriors, proud heroes and robber pirates
Dashiell Hammett: biography and creativity
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At the beginning of the 20th century, in the 1920s, such a genre as noir was formed in popular American literature. One of the founders of the black novel is the American writer and screenwriter Samuel Dashiell Hammett
Vasily Ershov: biography and creativity
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Vasily Ershov is a former pilot and instructor of an aviation company. In addition to his civil service, Vasily is the author of a whole series of books about the work of Russian aviation
Book "Garden of shadows": summary
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An exciting work full of subtle and accurate descriptions of the transformation of the human soul. How does a simple, fragile girl turn into a prudent bitch? Andrews Virginia, thanks to her writing talent, skillfully addresses this issue in her saga of the Dollangenger family
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin: biography and creativity
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, whose biography begins on December 1, 1766, was born in the Simbirsk province, in a poor noble family of educated and enlightened parents. He received his first education in the private boarding school of Professor Shaden. After that, like many other secular young people, he went to serve in the guards regiment, which was considered one of the best
The work "Two brothers", Schwartz E.: summary, analysis and reviews
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The world of fairy tales by E. L. Schwartz is special, many-sided. He composed not just something new in the plot, but revealed what is necessary for the reader at a given moment in time, what can make his life brighter, not ideal, but much better, more exemplary
The best books of A. S. Pushkin
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A. S. Pushkin belongs to such a category of poets who are immortal. His life path ended a long time ago, but his works are alive and relevant as never before. The books of A. S. Pushkin brought up more than one generation
Alexander Galich: biography, personal life, creativity
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The article is devoted to the biography and work of Alexander Arkadyevich Galich (1918-1977), a Russian poet and prose writer, as well as a screenwriter, playwright and performer of songs based on his own poems. The surname Galich was born as a creative pseudonym as a result of the merger of the first letters of the surname and name, as well as the end of the patronymic
The life and death of Leo Tolstoy: a brief biography, books, interesting and unusual facts about the life of the writer, date, place and cause of death
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The death of Leo Tolstoy shocked the whole world. The 82-year-old writer died not in his own house, but in the house of a railway employee, at the Astapovo station, 500 km from Yasnaya Polyana. Despite his advanced age, in the last days of his life he was determined and, as always, was in search of the truth
Robert Bloch: biography, creativity, interesting facts from life
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Robert Bloch is a famous American writer who worked in the 20th century. He has written books in the genres of horror, fantasy and science fiction. The writer's most famous novel is "Psycho", which was filmed by Hitchcock in 1960 and received the title "Psycho" in the Russian box office. We will talk about the life and work of the creator Norman Bates in this article