"King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" is Howard Pyle’s book about the British legend of king Arthur. This time Pyle wrote about prisoners of honor, love and faith that are the biggest values of the Order of Knights. Lancelot, Tristan and Percival are one of the most famous knights who belonged to the … [Read more...] about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
The Human Comedy
"The Human Comedy" is the name of a novel cycle by Honore de Balzac. The novel are linked by Balzak's idea of showing the society he lived in so the cycle could also be referred to as the history of behavior. Balzac doesn't write about main events of the human history but about the nature of an individual and society. … [Read more...] about The Human Comedy
Sorrow
"Sorrow" is a story written by a famous Russian writer and storyteller Chekhov. This short story shares many qualities with Chekhov's other works. It begins with a description of a cold winter night and a man who, covered in snow, waits for a customer with his horse. The illusion of an ideal town covered in snow … [Read more...] about Sorrow
The Flying Classroom
"The Flying Classroom" is a novel about the faith of five boys who were in a boarding school in Germany. They were all fifth graders. "The Flying Classroom" is actually the title of a play written by Johnny Trotz which the boys were supposed to perform at the Christmas celebrations. In the boarding school we meet many … [Read more...] about The Flying Classroom
Hadji Murat
"Hadji Murat" is a novel which differs itself by its lengths from all the other novels from Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy wrote it during the 19th century, and this novel was published postmortem, and it became a sensation in the literary world. Its length and thematic are also different from Tolstoy's other works, and it … [Read more...] about Hadji Murat
Griselda
Fairytale heroes are mostly person with a soft character. Sometimes they are girls in troubles, girls in need of rescue from an evil stepmother or witch or girl who seek for a husband. Perrault’s Griselda is a soft, gentle female character that gets abused by her jealous husband throughout the whole story. She … [Read more...] about Griselda
Hamlet
William Shakespeare found his inspiration for his work in a lost play by Thomas Kyd. The plot is set in the castle Elsinore in Denmark, and it has 5 acts. The real meaning of "Hamlet" isn’t in the tragic destiny of the main character but meaningless of everything because Hamlet keeps on getting the readers to complex … [Read more...] about Hamlet
Fathers and Sons
"Fathers and sons" is a novel by Ivan Turgenev, a Russian author. Turgenev was writing about nihilism through the character of Yevgeny Vasilevich Bazarov. Other characters from the novel are Anna Odintsova, Arkady Kirsanov, Pavel Kirsanov, Nikolai Kirsanov… The novel shows life in Russia during the 19th century. The … [Read more...] about Fathers and Sons
Three Sisters
The play "Three sisters" came to life in the 19th century and it contains many motives that can be found in most of the works from that time. Men were much more passive, questioned their existence and stopped fighting the outer world and started fighting with themselves which is notable in long inner monologues. Plays … [Read more...] about Three Sisters
The Miser
"The Miser" is one of the most famous and performed comedies by Moliere. It was the peak of the worldwide drama making and an inspiration for many other writers. The theme and the main inspiration of the work emerged from one of the capital human diseases - greed and miserliness. Miserliness is a theme that could be … [Read more...] about The Miser