ter, translator, journalist, publisher, the most prominent representative of sentimentalism in Russian literature, a reformer of the Russian language and a major historiographer. His work became a school for the next generation of Russian writers. It was he who found new words and techniques for revealing the inner world of man, the subtlest shades of thoughts and experiences, and in this...

N.V. Gogol is the greatest Russian writer and playwright. One of the peaks of his work, the most famous of his works is considered to be the comedy 'The Examiner'. Since the first production in 1836, the play has not left the stage of theaters around the world and has served as the basis for numerous film adaptations, and the names of its characters have become common nouns. Gogol's plays...

Н. А. Некрасов — одна из самых интересных и противоречивых фигур в истории русской поэзии. «Страстный к страданью поэт!..» — так отзывался о нем Достоевский. Для многих Некрасов стал пророком, утешителем, руководителем. Он был главным поэтом поколения нигилистов-шестидесятников, наследников Базарова. Он предложил новый взгляд на задачи поэта, новые поэтические темы. Некрасов действительно...

The novel MOTHER, one of Gorky’s most popular works, was based on the mass demonstration of 1902 in the city of Sormovo. Hence, an exciting plot based on real events, with a sharp political struggle, secret gatherings, searches, arrests, and the selfless heroism of the protagonist-revolutionary Pavel Vlasov. However, the central image in the novel is Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, the mother of...

'Rarely, to such an extent, in such complete equilibrium, were two hard-to-combine elements: sympathy for humanity and artistic feeling,' F.I. Tyutchev admired the Notes of the Hunter. In Notes of the Hunter, Turgenev recreates the thin, colorful material of national life: poetry and prose, light and shadows are intertwined here in unique, bizarre images, and nature turns out to be a necessary...

В настоящем издании представлен роман «Подросток». Наряду с романами «Преступление и наказание», «Идиот», «Бесы», «Братья Карамазовы» он составляет так называемое великое пятикнижие Достоевского.Желание денег и власти, мечта о превосходстве над миллионами «обыкновенных», проблема отцов и детей, богоборчество – вот опасности для русского подростка. Преодолимы ли они и что победит в итоге: бунт...

The work of the famous English writer Jane Austen, the author of elegant and witty novels PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, MANSFIELD-PARK, EMMA, has had a significant impact on the development of English prose of the XIX-XX centuries and has been enjoying increasing

The poem 'Odyssey', created by the genius of the legendary epic poet of Ancient Greece Homer, is one of the greatest works of world literature, a creation full of full-blooded life, bright fantasy and poetic brilliance. The dangerous adventures of the cunning and long-suffering Odyssey (he, passionately striving to go home to Ithaca, will have to fight with Poseidon, visit the country of cruel...

ompleted the tragedy a few months before his death. This work was the result of the philosophical and artistic searches of the author - a poet, playwright, prose writer, the greatest scientist of his time, a man of encyclopedic knowledge. The hero of the tragedy, Dr. Johann Faust, lived in the first half of the 16th century and was known as a magician and a warlock who, having rejected modern...

Множество источников разной степени достоверности утверждают, что однажды при встрече с автором «Хижины дяди Тома» Авраам Линкольн якобы произнес такую фразу: «Эта маленькая леди начала великую войну». Роман американской писательницы Гарриет Бичер-Стоу (1811–1896) очень быстро приобрел мировую известность и признание. Написанная в характерном для девятнадцатого века сентиментальном стиле...

В суждениях современников и потомков Эмили Бронте (1818–1848) не раз звучала мысль о том, что она гораздо в большей степени поэт, чем романист, а между тем в историю литературы писательница вошла прежде всего как автор знаменитого романа «Грозовой перевал». Его называли «романтичнейшим романом», «дьявольской книгой, объединившей все самые сильные женские наклонности», одним из самых лучших...

A.S. Pushkin entered Russian culture not only as a great Poet, but also as a wonderful prose writer and playwright. This volume includes the most significant and well-known prose works of the author, in which he appears as a historian, chronicler, subtle psychologist (expert on the human soul) and an excellent storyteller: 'Arap of Peter the Great', 'Tales of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin',...