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Orpheus loved young Eurydice, and the power of this love had no equal.

One day, while walking through a meadow, Eurydice accidentally stepped on the ground... Orpheus came running to the cry and saw his bride. The singer struck the strings of the cithara, but Eurydice did not open her eyes as before...

Orpheus descended into the kingdom of the dead. Here comes Charon.

Orpheus plucked the strings of the cithara, and a beautiful song sounded over the kingdom of the dead...

Orpheus sang a love song before the rulers underworld: Hades and Persephone.

Hades said: - Lead Eurydice to the upper world. She will follow you, and you will follow Hermes. Just remember: if you look back, the gift will be taken away!

And they set off...

Orpheus looked around... but saw nothing. Hades took away his gift.

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The action takes place in the living room of the country villa of Orpheus and Eurydice, reminiscent of an illusionist's salon; Despite the April sky and bright lighting, it becomes obvious to the audience that the room is under the power of a mysterious spell, so that even familiar objects in it look suspicious. In the middle of the room there is a pen with a white horse.

Orpheus stands at the table and works with the spiritualist alphabet. Eurydice stoically waits for her husband to finish communicating with the spirits through the horse, which answers Orpheus’ questions with knocks that help him find out the truth. He abandoned composing poems and praising the sun god in order to obtain certain poetic crystals contained in the sayings of a white horse, and thanks to this, in his time he became famous throughout Greece.

Eurydice reminds Orpheus of Aglaonis, the leader of the Bacchantes (Eurydice herself was one of them before her marriage), who also has a habit of practicing spiritualism. Orpheus has an extreme dislike for Aglaonis, who drinks and confuses married women and prevents young girls from getting married. Aglaonisa opposed Eurydice leaving the circle of bacchantes and becoming the wife of Orpheus. She promised to someday take revenge on him for taking Eurydice away from her. This is not the first time Eurydice begs Orpheus to return to his previous way of life, which he led until the moment he accidentally met a horse and placed it in his house.

Orpheus does not agree with Eurydice and, as proof of the importance of his studies, cites one phrase recently dictated to him by a horse: “Madame Eurydice will return from hell,” which he considers the height of poetic perfection and intends to submit to a poetry competition. Orpheus is convinced that this phrase will have the effect of a bomb exploding. He is not afraid of the rivalry of Aglaonisa, who also takes part in the poetry competition and hates Orpheus, and therefore is capable of any mean trick towards him. During a conversation with Eurydice, Orpheus becomes extremely irritable and hits the table with his fist, to which Eurydice remarks that anger is not a reason to destroy everything around. Orpheus answers his wife that he himself does not react in any way to the fact that she regularly breaks window panes, although he knows very well that she does this so that Ortebiz, the glazier, will come to her. Eurydice asks her husband not to be so jealous, to which he breaks one of the glasses with his own hands, in a similar way, as if proving that he is far from jealous and, without a shadow of a doubt, gives Eurydice the opportunity to meet with Ortebiz one more time, after which he leaves to apply for the competition.

Left alone with Eurydice, Ortebiz, who came to her at the call of Orpheus, expresses his regret about such unrestrained behavior of her husband and reports that he brought Eurydice, as agreed, a poisoned piece of sugar for the horse, whose presence in the house radically changed the nature of the relationship between Eurydice and Orpheus. The sugar was transferred through Ortebiz Aglaonis, who, in addition to poison for the horse, also sent an envelope in which Eurydice should enclose a message addressed to her former friend. Eurydice does not dare to feed the horse the poisoned lump of sugar herself and asks Ortebise to do it, but the horse refuses to eat from his hands. Eurydice, meanwhile, sees Orpheus returning through the window, Ortebise throws sugar on the table and stands on a chair in front of the window, pretending to measure the frame. Orpheus, as it turns out, returned home because he forgot his birth certificate: he takes out a chair from under Ortebise and, standing on it, looks for the document he needs on the top shelf of the bookcase. Ortebiz at this time hangs in the air without any support. Having found the evidence, Orpheus again places the chair under Ortebise’s feet and, as if nothing had happened, leaves the house. After his departure, the amazed Eurydice asks Ortebise to explain to her what happened and demands that he reveal his true nature to her. She declares that she no longer believes him and goes to her room, after which she puts a letter prepared in advance for her into Aglaonisa’s envelope, licks the edge of the envelope to seal it, but the glue turns out to be poisonous, and Eurydice, feeling the approach of death, calls Ortebise and asks him to find and bring Orpheus in order to have time to see his husband before his death.

After Ortebise leaves, Death appears on stage in a pink ballgown with his two assistants, Azrael and Raphael. Both assistants are wearing surgical gowns, masks and rubber gloves. Death, like them, also puts on a robe and gloves over the ball gown. At her direction, Raphael takes sugar from the table and tries to feed it to the horse, but nothing comes of it. Death brings the matter to an end, and the horse, having moved to another world, disappears; Eurydice also disappears, transported by Death and her assistants to another world through a mirror. Orpheus, having returned home with Ortebiz, no longer finds Eurydice alive. He is ready to do anything to return his beloved wife from the kingdom of shadows. Ortebiz helps him, pointing out that Death forgot rubber gloves on the table and will fulfill any wish of the one who returns them to her. Orpheus puts on gloves and through the mirror penetrates the other world.

While Eurydice and Orpheus are not at home, the postman knocks on the door, and since no one opens for him, he pushes a letter under the door. Soon a happy Orpheus emerges from the mirror and thanks Ortebise for the advice he gave him. Eurydice appears after him from there. The horse's prediction - "Madame Eurydice will return from hell" - will come true, but on one condition: Orpheus has no right to turn around and look at Eurydice. In this circumstance, Eurydice also sees a positive side: Orpheus will never see her grow old. All three sit down to dinner. At dinner, an argument breaks out between Eurydice and Orpheus. Orpheus wants to leave the table, but stumbles and looks back at his wife; Eurydice disappears. Orpheus cannot understand the irreparability of his loss. Looking around, he notices an anonymous letter on the floor by the door, brought in his absence by the postman. The letter says that under the influence of Aglaonisa, the competition jury saw an indecent word in the abbreviation of Orpheus’ phrase sent to the competition, and now, raised by Aglaonisa, a good half of all the women in the city are heading to Orpheus’ house, demanding his death and preparing to tear him to pieces. The beat of the drums of the approaching bacchantes is heard: Aglaonisa has waited for the hour of vengeance. Women throw stones at the window, the window breaks. Orpheus hangs from the balcony in the hope of reasoning with the warriors. The next moment, the head of Orpheus, already severed from his body, flies into the room. Eurydice appears from the mirror and takes the invisible body of Orpheus into the mirror.

The police commissioner and the court secretary enter the living room. They demand to know what happened here and where the body of the murdered man is. Ortebiz informs them that the body of the murdered man was torn to pieces and not a trace remained of him. The commissioner claims that the bacchantes saw Orpheus on the balcony, he was covered in blood and called for help. According to them, they would have helped him, but before their eyes he had already fallen from the balcony dead, and they could not prevent the tragedy. The servants of the law inform Ortebiz that now the whole city is agitated by a mysterious crime, everyone has dressed in mourning for Orpheus and is asking for some bust of the poet to glorify him. Ortebiz points the commissioner to the head of Orpheus and assures him that this is a bust of Orpheus by the hand of an unknown sculptor. The commissioner and the court reporter ask Ortebise who he is and where he lives. The head of Orpheus is responsible for him, and Ortebise disappears in the mirror following Eurydice, who calls him. Surprised by the disappearance of the interrogated, the commissioner and the court secretary leave.

The scenery rises up, Eurydice and Orpheus enter the stage through the mirror; Ortebiz leads them. They are about to sit down at the table and finally have dinner, but first they say a prayer of gratitude to the Lord, who has designated their home, their hearth as the only paradise for them and opened the gates of this paradise for them; because the Lord sent them Ortebiz, their guardian angel, because he saved Eurydice, who in the name of love killed the devil in the guise of a horse, and saved Orpheus, because Orpheus idolizes poetry, and poetry is God.

Orpheus loved young Eurydice, and the power of this love had no equal. One day, while walking through a meadow, Eurydice accidentally stepped on a snake. Eurydice screamed and fell. The girl's face turned pale. The clear forehead was covered with perspiration, the bright eyes rolled back.
Orpheus came running to the cry and saw his bride. The singer struck the strings of the cithara, but Eurydice did not open her eyes or reach out to him as before. Orpheus mourned his beloved for a long time. And he decided to go down to the underworld to return Aurydice and unite with her. Orpheus took nothing with him except the cithara and an unblown willow branch.
He descended to the shores of the sacred Styx, beyond which lay the world of the dead. Here comes Charon. But when Orpheus took a step towards the boat, he came across an oar placed across it. The old boatman knew his business: “The kingdom of the dead is not for the living. You will appear when your time comes!”
The singer plucked the strings of the cithara, and the song of the beautiful upper world began to sound over the kingdom of eternal silence. Charon lowered his oar and, leaning on it, listened to unknown sounds. Without stopping singing, Orpheus entered the boat, and now he was already on the other side. Crowds of shadows ran towards the song, and the terrible underground dog Kerber was chasing after them. Hearing the singing, Kerber slowed down his run and froze, like an earthly dog ​​at the sign of a hunter.
Here is the throne of the great rulers of the underworld, Hades and Persephone. Stopping in front of them, Orpheus sang the best of his songs - a song about love. And while he sang, the willow branch that he brought blossomed. Green leaves appeared from the bursting buds. How delightful is the smell of fresh greenery, ignorant of death and decay! Tears welled up in Persephone's eyes.
The song died down and there was deep silence. And the voice of Hades sounded in it:
- What are you asking, alien?
- I came for the sake of my beloved Eurydice, who resides in the world of shadows. Thanat [Death] stole her from me at the dawn of love. Don't you know that we will all come here? She will return under your power, and I will appear with her. I'm asking you for a while. Let Eurydice experience the joy of life.
“Let it be your way,” said Hades. - Take Eurydice to the upper world. She will follow you, and you will follow Hermes. Just remember: if you look back, the gift will be taken away.
- Have patience!
And they set off. We passed the kingdom of Hades. Charon took them to the rook, and now Styx was behind. There was a steep path going up. Hermes walked ahead. Orpheus is behind him. The light has already dawned. Orpheus was overcome with excitement. Has Eurydice fallen behind? Didn't she remain in the kingdom of the dead? The hero slowed down. I listened. But the shadows walk silently. There were a few steps left to the upper world, but Orpheus could not stand it and looked back. He didn't see anything, but he caught a slight whiff. Hades took away his gift. And Orpheus himself was to blame.
Orpheus descended again to Styx, hoping to again plead with the underground gods. But mercy is given only once...
(453 words) (According to A.I. Nemirovsky. Myths of Ancient Hellas)

Title the text and retell it in detail. Answer the question: “What thoughts and feelings does the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice evoke in you?”
Title the text and retell it concisely. Answer the question: “Do you agree with A. Nemirovsky’s statement that the power of love of Orpheus and Eurydice had no equal?”

Orpheus loved young Eurydice, and the power of this love had no equal. One day, while walking through a meadow, Eurydice accidentally stepped on a snake. Eurydice screamed and fell. The girl's face turned pale. The clear forehead was covered with sweat, the bright eyes rolled back.
Orpheus came running to the cry and saw his bride. The singer struck the strings of the cithara, but Eurydice did not open her eyes or reach out to him as before. Orpheus mourned his beloved for a long time. And he decided to go down to the underworld to return Aurydice and unite with her. Orpheus took nothing with him except the cithara and an unblown willow branch.
He descended to the shores of the sacred Styx, beyond which lay the world of the dead. Here comes Charon. But when Orpheus took a step towards the boat, he came across an oar placed across it. The old boatman knew his business: “The kingdom of the dead is not for the living. You will appear when your time comes!”
The singer plucked the strings of the cithara, and the song of the beautiful upper world began to sound over the kingdom of eternal silence. Charon lowered his oar and, leaning on it, listened to unknown sounds. Without stopping singing, Orpheus entered the boat, and now he was already on the other side. Crowds of shadows ran towards the song, and the terrible underground dog Kerber was chasing after them. Hearing the singing, Kerber slowed down his run and froze, like an earthly dog ​​at the sign of a hunter.
Here is the throne of the great rulers of the underworld, Hades and Persephone. Stopping in front of them, Orpheus sang the best of his songs - a song about love. And while he sang, the willow branch that he brought blossomed. Green leaves appeared from the bursting buds. How delightful is the smell of fresh greenery, ignorant of death and decay! Tears welled up in Persephone's eyes.
The song died down and there was deep silence. And the voice of Hades sounded in it:
- What are you asking, alien?
- I came for the sake of my beloved Eurydice, who resides in the world of shadows. Thanat [Death] stole her from me at the dawn of love. Don't you know that we will all come here? She will return under your power, and I will appear with her. I'm asking you for it for a while. Let Eurydice experience the joy of life.
“Let it be your way,” said Hades. - Take Eurydice to the upper world. She will follow you, and you will follow Hermes. Just remember: if you look back, the gift will be taken away.
- Have patience!
And they set off. We passed the kingdom of Hades. Charon took them to the rook, and now Styx was behind. There was a steep path going up. Hermes walked ahead. Orpheus is behind him. The light has already dawned. Orpheus was overcome with excitement. Has Eurydice fallen behind? Didn't she remain in the kingdom of the dead? The hero slowed down. I listened. But the shadows walk silently. There were a few steps left to the upper world, but Orpheus could not stand it and looked back. He didn't see anything, but he caught a slight whiff. Hades took away his gift. And Orpheus himself was to blame.
Orpheus descended again to Styx, hoping to again plead with the underground gods. But mercy is given only once...
(453 words) (According to A.I. Nemirovsky. Myths of Ancient Hellas)

EXERCISE:
Title the text and retell it in detail. Answer the question: “What thoughts and feelings does the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice evoke in you?”
Title the text and retell it concisely. Answer the question: “Do you agree with A. Nemirovsky’s statement that the power of love of Orpheus and Eurydice had no equal?”

Jean Cocteau
Orpheus
The action takes place in the living room of the country villa of Orpheus and Eurydice, reminiscent of an illusionist's salon; Despite the April sky and bright lighting, it becomes obvious to the audience that the room is under the power of a mysterious spell, so that even familiar objects in it look suspicious. In the middle of the room there is a pen with a white horse.
Orpheus stands at the table and works with the spiritualist alphabet. Eurydice stoically waits for her husband to finish communicating with the spirits through the horse, which, in response to Orpheus' questions,

He responds by knocking, helping him find out the truth. He abandoned composing poems and praising the sun god in order to obtain certain poetic crystals contained in the sayings of a white horse, and thanks to this, in his time he became famous throughout Greece.
Eurydice reminds Orpheus of Aglaonis, the leader of the Bacchae (Eurydice herself belonged to their number before her marriage), who also has a habit of practicing spiritualism. Orpheus has extreme hostility towards Aglaonis, who drinks, confuses married women and prevents young girls from getting married. Aglaonisa opposed Eurydice leaving the circle of bacchantes and becoming the wife of Orpheus. She promised to someday take revenge on him for taking Eurydice away from her.

This is not the first time Eurydice begs Orpheus to return to his previous way of life, which he led until he accidentally met a horse and placed it in his house.
Orpheus does not agree with Eurydice and, as proof of the importance of his studies, cites one phrase recently dictated to him by a horse: “Madame Eurydice will return from hell,” which he considers the height of poetic perfection and intends to submit to a poetry competition. Orpheus is convinced that this phrase will have the effect of a bomb exploding. He is not afraid of the rivalry of Aglaonisa, who also takes part in the poetry competition and hates Orpheus, and therefore is capable of any mean trick towards him. During a conversation with Eurydice, Orpheus becomes extremely irritable and hits the table with his fist, to which Eurydice remarks that anger is not a reason to destroy everything around.

Orpheus answers his wife that he himself does not react in any way to the fact that she regularly breaks window panes, although he knows very well that she does this so that Ortebiz, the glazier, will come to her. Eurydice asks her husband not to be so jealous, to which he breaks one of the glasses with his own hands, in a similar way, as if proving that he is far from jealous and, without a shadow of a doubt, gives Eurydice the opportunity to meet with Ortebiz one more time, after which he leaves to apply for the competition.
Left alone with Eurydice, Ortebiz, who came to her at the call of Orpheus, expresses his regret over such unrestrained behavior of her husband and reports that he brought Eurydice, as agreed, a poisoned piece of sugar for the horse, whose presence in the house radically changed the nature of the relationship between Eurydice and Orpheus. The sugar was transferred through Ortebiz Aglaonis, who, in addition to poison for the horse, also sent an envelope in which Eurydice should enclose a message addressed to her former friend. Eurydice does not dare to feed the horse the poisoned lump of sugar herself and asks Ortebise to do it, but the horse refuses to eat from his hands. Eurydice, meanwhile, sees Orpheus returning through the window, Ortebise throws sugar on the table and stands on a chair in front of the window, pretending to measure the frame.

Orpheus, as it turns out, returned home because he forgot his birth certificate: he takes out a chair from under Ortebise and, standing on it, looks for the document he needs on the top shelf of the bookcase. Ortebiz at this time hangs in the air without any support. Having found the evidence, Orpheus again places the chair under Ortebise’s feet and, as if nothing had happened, leaves the house.

After his departure, the amazed Eurydice asks Ortebise to explain to her what happened and demands that he reveal his true nature to her. She declares that she no longer believes him and goes to her room, after which she puts a letter prepared in advance for her into Aglaonisa’s envelope, licks the edge of the envelope to seal it, but the glue turns out to be poisonous, and Eurydice, feeling the approach of death, calls Ortebise and asks him to find and bring Orpheus in order to have time to see his husband before his death.
After Ortebise leaves, Death appears on stage in a pink ballgown with his two assistants, Azrael and Raphael. Both assistants are wearing surgical gowns, masks and rubber gloves. Death, like them, also puts on a robe and gloves over the ball gown.

At her direction, Rafael takes sugar from the table and tries to feed it to the horse, but nothing comes of it. Death brings the matter to an end, and the horse, having moved to another world, disappears; Eurydice also disappears, transported by Death and her assistants to another world through a mirror. Orpheus, having returned home with Ortebiz, no longer finds Eurydice alive. He is ready to do anything to return his beloved wife from the kingdom of shadows.

Ortebiz helps him, pointing out that Death forgot rubber gloves on the table and will fulfill any wish of the one who returns them to her. Orpheus puts on gloves and through the mirror penetrates the other world.
While Eurydice and Orpheus are not at home, the postman knocks on the door, and since no one opens for him, he pushes a letter under the door. Soon a happy Orpheus emerges from the mirror and thanks Ortebise for the advice he gave him. Eurydice appears after him from there. The horse's prediction - “Madame Eurydice will return from hell” - will come true, but on one condition: Orpheus has no right to turn around and look at Eurydice.

In this circumstance, Eurydice also sees a positive side: Orpheus will never see her grow old. All three sit down to dinner. At dinner, an argument breaks out between Eurydice and Orpheus. Orpheus wants to leave the table, but stumbles and looks back at his wife; Eurydice disappears.

Orpheus cannot understand the irreparability of his loss. Looking around, he notices an anonymous letter on the floor by the door, brought in his absence by the postman. The letter says that under the influence of Aglaonisa, the competition jury saw an indecent word in the abbreviation of Orpheus’ phrase sent to the competition, and now, raised by Aglaonisa, a good half of all the women in the city are heading to Orpheus’ house, demanding his death and preparing to tear him to pieces. The beat of the drums of the approaching bacchantes is heard: Aglaonisa has waited for the hour of vengeance.

Women throw stones at the window, the window breaks. Orpheus hangs from the balcony in the hope of reasoning with the warriors. The next moment, the head of Orpheus, already severed from his body, flies into the room.

Eurydice appears from the mirror and takes the invisible body of Orpheus into the mirror.
The police commissioner and the court secretary enter the living room. They demand to know what happened here and where the body of the murdered man is. Ortebiz informs them that the body of the murdered man was torn to pieces and not a trace remained of him.

The commissioner claims that the bacchantes saw Orpheus on the balcony, he was covered in blood and called for help. According to them, they would have helped him, but before their eyes he had already fallen from the balcony dead, and they could not prevent the tragedy. The servants of the law inform Ortebiz that now the whole city is agitated by a mysterious crime, everyone has dressed in mourning for Orpheus and is asking for some bust of the poet to glorify him.

Ortebiz points the commissioner to the head of Orpheus and assures him that this is a bust of Orpheus by the hand of an unknown sculptor. The commissioner and the court reporter ask Ortebise who he is and where he lives. The head of Orpheus is responsible for him, and Ortebise disappears in the mirror following Eurydice, who calls him.

Surprised by the disappearance of the interrogated, the commissioner and the court secretary leave.
The scenery rises up, Eurydice and Orpheus enter the stage through the mirror; Ortebiz leads them. They are about to sit down at the table and finally have dinner, but first they say a prayer of gratitude to the Lord, who has designated their home, their hearth as the only paradise for them and opened the gates of this paradise for them; because the Lord sent them Ortebiz, their guardian angel, because he saved Eurydice, who in the name of love killed the devil in the guise of a horse, and saved Orpheus, because Orpheus idolizes poetry, and poetry is God.

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17. Euripides Hippolytus King Theseus ruled in ancient Athens. Like Hercules, he had two fathers - the earthly one, King Aegeus, and the heavenly one, the god Poseidon. He accomplished his main feat on the island of Crete: he killed the monstrous Minotaur in the labyrinth and freed Athens from tribute to him. The Cretan princess Ariadne was his assistant: she gave him a thread, following which [...]
18. William Faulkner The township of Frenchman's Gulch was a section of a fertile river valley twenty miles southeast of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. It was once a colossal plantation, the remains of which - the shell of a huge house, destroyed stables and barracks for slaves, overgrown gardens - were now called the Old Frenchman's estate and belonged along with the best lands in the area, a store, [...]
19. In the evening, when fluffy snow slowly falls in a soft layer on “roofs, horses’ backs, shoulders, hats,” cab driver Iona Potapov, all white, like a ghost, still sits on the box without working, sits without moving. The snow had already covered both his horse, which had become like a “penny gingerbread horse,” and himself. Jonah is deep in thought, “absorbed in thought,” probably his […]...
20. A. P. Chekhov Literature teacher Teacher of Russian language and literature in a small provincial town Sergei Vasilyevich Nikitin is in love with the daughter of a local landowner, Masha Shelestova, eighteen years old, whom “the family has not yet gotten used to considering as small” and therefore they call her Manya and Manyusya, and when the circus visited the city, which she diligently attended, they began to call her Maria [... ]...
21. In the Odenwald mountains in southern Germany stood the castle of Baron von Landshort. It fell into disrepair, but its owner - a proud descendant of the ancient Katsenelenbogen family - tried to maintain the appearance of its former greatness. The baron had a beautiful daughter, raised under the constant supervision of two unmarried aunts. She could read quite well and read through several church legends, knew how […]...
22. Epigraph: The theme and intention of any art is reconciliation between the individual and the Universe. R. M. Rilke is one of the poets of the early 20th century. Ability to perceive cultural values different eras and peoples, the spiritual breadth, the acuteness of the worldview, which he was gifted by nature and developed in himself throughout his life, gave him the opportunity not only to continue the traditions [...]
23. V. F. Tendryakov Death The action takes place in the village of Pozhary of the collective farm “Power of Labor”. People gather at the house of the dying chairman. Evlampy Nikitich Lykov was famous not only in the region, but also in the country. Everyone understands that changes are coming, and they remember the thirty years that Lykov headed the collective farm. An old man who has not left his hut for five years appears […]...
24. A. A. Voznesensky Maybe! “But here I must make a confession to Your Excellency about my private adventures. The beautiful Concepsia multiplied her politeness to me day by day... which ended with her giving me her hand...” Letter from N. Rezanov to N. Rumyantsev June 17, 1806 (TsGIA, f. 13, p. 1, d. 687) “ Let them appreciate my feat as much as they like, [...]
25. Prosper Merimee Etruscan vase Auguste Saint-Clair was not loved in the so-called “big world”; main reason was that he tried to please only those who were after his heart. He went towards some and carefully avoided others. Moreover, he was careless and absent-minded. He was proud and proud. He valued other people's opinions. He […]...
26. A.P. Platonov Juvenile Sea For five days a man walks into the depths of the southeastern steppe Soviet Union. On the way, he imagines himself either as a locomotive driver, or as an exploration geologist, or as “another organized professional being, just to occupy his head with uninterrupted thought and distract the melancholy from his heart” and reflects on the reconstruction globe in order to discover new sources of energy. This […]...
27. May 20, 1859 Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov, a forty-three-year-old but already middle-aged landowner, nervously waits at the inn for his son Arkady, who has just graduated from university. Nikolai Petrovich was the son of a general, but destined for him military career did not take place (he broke his leg in his youth and remained “lame” for the rest of his life). Nikolai Petrovich married […]...
28. Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles A remote English province at the end of the last century. In the Blackmoor Valley (or Blackmoor) lives the family of carter Jack Durbeyfield. One evening in May, the head of the family meets a priest who, responding to the greeting, calls him “Sir John”, Jack is surprised, and the priest explains: Durbeyfield is a direct descendant of the knightly family of the d’Urbervilles, descended from Sir Pagan […]...
29. George Orwell Animal Farm Mr. Jones owns Manor Farm near the town of Willingdon in England. The old hog Major collects all the animals that live here at night in a large barn. He says that they live in slavery and poverty because man is appropriating the fruits of their labor, and calls for an uprising: you need to free yourself from man, and the animals will immediately become […]...
30. V.V. Bykov Sotnikov On a winter night, hiding from the Germans, Rybak and Sotnikov circled through the fields and copses, having received the task of obtaining food for the partisans. The fisherman walked easily and quickly, Sotnikov lagged behind, he should not have gone on a mission at all - he fell ill: he had a cough, was dizzy, and was tormented by weakness. He could hardly keep up with the Fisherman. The farm to which [...]
31. It was planned to send two older children from the orphanage to the Caucasus, but they immediately disappeared into space. And the Kuzmina twins, in the orphanage Kuzmenysh, on the contrary, said that they would go. The fact is that a week before, the tunnel they had made under the bread slicer collapsed. They dreamed of eating their fill once in their lives, but it didn’t work out. Military sappers were called to inspect the tunnel, they [...]
32. A. von Chamisso The amazing story of Peter Schlemihl Germany, early XIX V. After a long voyage, Peter Schlemihl arrives in Hamburg with a letter of recommendation to Mr. Thomas John. Among the guests he sees an amazing man in a gray tailcoat. It’s amazing because this man, one after another, takes out objects from his pocket that, it would seem, cannot possibly be there […]...
33. On a winter night, hiding from the Germans, Rybak and Sotnikov circled through the fields and copses, having received the task of obtaining food for the partisans. The fisherman walked easily and quickly, Sotnikov lagged behind, he should not have gone on a mission at all - he fell ill: he had a cough, was dizzy, and was tormented by weakness. He could hardly keep up with the Fisherman. The farm they were heading to turned out to be burned down. […]...
34. Dino Buzzati Tatar Desert The action takes place in an uncertain time, most reminiscent of the beginning of our century, and the unknown state depicted on its pages is very similar to Italy. This is a novel about time eating up life. The irreversibility of time is the fatal destiny of man, night is highest point tragic tension of human existence. Young Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo, filled with bright hopes for the future, [...]
35. R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island XVIII century. A mysterious stranger, an overweight man, settles in the Admiral Benbow tavern, located near the English city of Bristol. old man with a saber scar on his cheek. His name is Billy Bones. Rude and unbridled, at the same time he is clearly afraid of someone and even asks the son of the innkeepers, Jim Hawkins, to keep an eye on […]...
36. The play contains, as it were, two parallel actions. The first is social and the second is philosophical. Both actions develop in parallel, without intertwining. There are, as it were, two planes in the play: external and internal. External plan. In the rooming house belonging to Mikhail Ivanovich Kostylev (51 years old) and his wife Vasilisa Karlovna (26 years old), live, according to the author’s definition, “former [...]
37. One rich widower married a second time to a widow so arrogant and proud that no one had ever seen her when the world was shaken by peace. She had two daughters, also swaggering and arrogant. And the husband had his own daughter, extremely kind and gentle - just like her mother, the best woman in the world... Before the wedding could be celebrated, the stepmother had already shown her evil […]...
38. G. von Kleist Michael Kohlhaas The action dates back to the middle of the 16th century, the period of the Reformation. Michael Kohlhaas, main character story, makes a living by breeding and selling horses. This is a simple and fair person who highly values ​​his honor and dignity. One day he heads to Leipzig and, crossing the border, sees a barrier on the Saxon side near the knight's castle. He […]...