"The Middle-Class Gentleman" is a brilliant, sparkling comedy of the classic of French literature, Jean Baptiste Moliere. The attempts of an uneducated, ignorant, uncouth dork with big money to look like a noble nobleman cannot but cause laughter. The main character now and then gets into ridiculous situations, and those around do not miss the opportunity to use his mania for their own benefit....
Kate Greenway was very fond of flowers, and they always occupied a special place in her paintings. The artist very accurately and realistically, and at the same time figuratively, depicted a variety of flowers, and also often used them as a decorative motif. Several Greenaway books have been dedicated to flowers, including "Marigold Garden", the second collection of her own poems. The decorativeness of beautiful flowering plants remains in the books of Greenway in a special artistic way....
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. The novel has been generally well received. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list. In 2003 it was listed at number 70 on the BBC's The Big Read poll, and...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a business and self-help book written by Stephen Covey. Covey presents an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning oneself to what he calls "true north" principles based on a character ethic that he presents as universal and timeless. Covey defines effectiveness as the balance of obtaining desirable results with caring for that which produces those results. He illustrates this by referring to the fable of the goose that laid the golden eggs. He further claims that effectiveness can be expressed in terms of...
Francis Lynde (November 12, 1856 – May 16, 1930) was an American author. He was born in Lewiston, New York, and wrote adventure novels set in the American West in the early 20th century. The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library has a collection of his papers. His novels were set in the mountains of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. Railroading and mining provided settings for his storylines. The main characters were often mining or railroad engineers. His collection of detective stories was titled Scientific Sprague. His story Moonshiner of Fact is set in the Appalachian Mountains of...
Miss Susan Cushing, a secluded lifestyle, received a small bag wrapped in paper — a cardboard box with coarse salt. After pouring out salt, Miss Cushing, in horror, discovered two unpaired human ears, male and female. They are cut off recently. Inspector Lestrade invites Holmes to investigate. Starting by examining the twine, packaging, and address on the box, Holmes begins the investigation....
Thomas Payne's Political Brochure, Common Sense, was an extremely influential document of the Revolutionary era. Since it was written and reasoned in a style that is easy to understand, the brochure has become extremely popular. He fired up revolutionary lights and supplied intelligent ammunition to revolutionaries throughout the colony. Study one of the most significant political writings in American history and find out the main arguments that Payne presented in his work....
A wave of Mysticism is passing over the civilised nations. It is welcomed by many: by more it is mistrusted. Even the minds to which it would naturally appeal are often restrained from sympathy by fears of vague speculative driftings and of transcendental emotionalism. Nor can it be doubted that such an attitude of aloofness is at once reasonable and inevitable. For a systematic exaltation of formless ecstasies, at the expense of sense and intellect, has a tendency to become an infirmity if it does not always betoken loss of mental balance. In order, therefore, to disarm natural prejudice,...
In the biography of Balzac himself, women significant for him were from 31 years old to 45 years old. And this is surprising, because in those days women over 30 years old were simply obliged to be married (then the girls were married at 14-18 years old). Therefore, it was believed that a 30-year-old woman seems to have no right to love ... Why are all these women so attracted to Balzac? Because they were adults, experienced, well-established natures. He needed to take something from them, and he took......
Autor: Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Robert Leighton
Vikings - Scandinavian sailors of the early Middle Ages, in the VIII - XI centuries they made sea voyages from Vinland to Biarmia and from the Caspian to North Africa. Most of them were free peasants who lived on the territory of modern Sweden, Denmark and Norway, who were pushed beyond the borders of their native countries by overpopulation and thirst for easy money. By religion - the vast majority of pagans. Used their battle axes for both melee and throwing. Also, they had not only ordinary spears, but also lighter ones - throwing ones. Swedish Vikings, as a rule, traveled east and...
In the small town of Ezeldorf, in Austria, three friends meet a stranger. The stranger captivates the guys with his unusual tricks, stories and during the conversation it suddenly turns out that the stranger is ... an angel. The story “The Mysterious Stranger” was conceived by Mark Twain in three different versions, but he did not finish any of them....
American writer and illustrator Howard Pyle (1853-1911) collected and crafted many legends and ballads about Robin Hood. None of these stories was invented by Pail, he only connected them together - a fascinating story full of medieval color and folk English humor turned out about a noble robber and his cheerful friends-yomen living under the canopy of Sherwood Forest....
Embroidery is a widespread type of decorative art in which the pattern and image are hand-made on various fabrics, leather, felt and other materials with linen, cotton, woolen, silk threads, as well as hair, beads, pearls, precious stones, sequins, coins etc. Embroidery is used to decorate clothes, household items, to create independent decorative panels....
An excellent representative of the post-war genre, when the public is tired of cruelty and wants a little tenderness and lightness. The book tells the continuation of the story of two girls - the sisters Mavis and Merle, and their family, but the story is independent and can be read separately....
The Boer War (1899–1902) made a deep impression on contemporaries. In this war, the Boer farmers armed with the most modern weapons won several brilliant victories over the British regular army. On the battlefields of the Boer War, Mauser rifles and Maxim machine guns opposed the tactics of the Napoleonic Wars, which continued to adhere to the European army. After the last Boer army was defeated, a fierce guerrilla war continued for another two years. The British Empire ultimately won, but paid for it with a loss of twenty thousand soldiers. After the war, the British went to a completely...
