At the beginning of the 20th century, works appeared in realistic US literature, which sharply critically portrayed the life of American society. The founder of this trend, whose representatives were called "mud rakers", was Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). In 1906, his novel “The Jungle” was published - about Chicago slaughterhouses. The novel was a success and made a lot of noise. Jack London called it "Uncle Tom's Cabin of Industrial Slavery." The fascinating plot did not hide or embellish the socially revealing character of the novel....
Edith Wharton - author of more than twenty novels and ten collections of short stories - the first woman writer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Such works of Wharton, such as "Resident of Joy," "Ethan From," "The Age of Innocence," "The Fruit of the Tree," were included in the golden fund of American literature. The novel "The Age of Innocence" formed the basis of the film of the same name by Martin Scorsese, which received recognition and popularity. The confrontation of the individual and society, the clash of generally accepted moral principles and sincere deep feelings inevitably lead...
In My Anthony, Will Keser addresses the difficult life of immigrants and American immigrants in the vast expanses of the prairie. In fact, this is the prairie anthem, on which the themes of growing up heroes, friendship, adaptation in an alien environment, the role of women in society (in particular women from the poor) are superimposed. The novel is permeated with a feeling of longing - for the past, for the abandoned homeland, for unfulfilled expectations and the golden years of childhood....
The late 1820s and early 1830s, when Balzac entered the literature, was the period of the greatest flowering of the work of romanticism in French literature. The great novel in European literature before the arrival of Balzac had two main genres: a novel of personality - an adventurous hero or a self-deepening, lonely hero and a historical novel. Balzac departs from both the novel of personality and the historical novel of Walter Scott. He seeks to show the "individualized type", to give a picture of the whole society, the whole people, the whole of France. Not a legend about the past, but a...
Ignoring the time, Jack Breton crosses the parallel world to return Kate, a wife who was found raped and strangled in a lonely park nine years earlier. But in another stream of time, Kate marries her double John. And for one husband to remain Jack or John, he must die....
The following manuscript was discovered during a thorough excavation of a site that could lead to artifacts of cultural significance. And they conceded: indeed, the wreckage turned out to be the remains of an ancient spaceship, similar to those described in Sectoral Chronicles IV-VII, but much smaller and more rude in design - obviously, a relic of the days before the expansion. A small metal box was found in the remains of the ship, covered with several layers of resin-impregnated fabric and wax, which was mostly destroyed. The metal itself was highly oxidized, but served to protect the...
The French scientist from 1444, by chance, is carried forward 500 years and ends up in the 20th century, in Paris in 1944. It turns out that the move was not accidental ......
On Earth, a new generation of people has been brought up for life on Mars. Using a substance called daptin, the body of ten-year-old children was rebuilt in accordance with the environmental conditions of life on Mars. And then the day came when the children were brought to Mars, so that they began their life on their new planet ......
This is a short science fiction novel written in 1961 for Analogue Science and Science Fiction. The Committee undoubtedly made a mistake in this story. There was no doubt that Eddie had achieved the long-awaited cancer treatment ... but awarding the Nobel Prize was, nevertheless, a mistake ......
At least one of the factors contributing to the current cycle of science fiction films produced in Hollywood is the irritability of minorities when their citizens are portrayed as villains. Filmmakers are now trying to avoid further boycotts by using space aliens for villains. But suppose some of our extraterrestrial neighbors are also a little touchy?...
Music plays, drums beat, horns blow, flags fly, women dress up and preen, men rejoice, children laugh, everyone dances and sings - in short, everyone is waiting for the rocket to land....
