Thirty-three-year-old narrator hero Philip Marlo, who had previously worked in the Los Angeles County Attorney's Office, has now become a private investigator and is investigating cases in which his clients are definitely not interested in publicizing them. He arrives at the home of millionaire Guy Sternwood, who tells Marlowe that someone
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The experimental field in which the paradoxical and contradictory course of one human life unfolds - the life of a poor American in Paris at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s - is essentially the entire Western civilization of the twentieth century that has been gripped by a deadly crisis. With Henry, the hero of the book, we are the first to ...
To create wealth, save money and invest them wisely. Why only a few become wealthy? Because some save every penny they save, while others spend everything they earn on trinkets. You need not only to save money, but also to know how to use it wisely. First step ...
The main thing in this comedy is not the plot, but the hero, the “boastful warrior”. In the old days, there were no professional soldiers in Greece, there were militias. And then, when the war became a profession, then dashing mercenaries appeared who went to serve anyone, at least to the ends of the world, for the most part they died, and who ...
King Kirkous lived, and he had Uncle Lazarus. The son of the prince, Yeruslan Lazarevich, at ten years old was expelled from the kingdom. His remarkable strength brought only troubles during games with peers: whoever takes hold of his hand will tear out his hand, and whoever holds his leg will break that leg. The princes and the boyars prayed: “Either we ...
This work does not have common characters with the previous books of Murakami, although they have similar images and plots. At the beginning of the Chronicle, the protagonist leaves the law firm, where he was an “errand boy”. He lives on some kind of savings, money left by his parents and what he earns ...
The prose of M. Bulgakov is the pearl of Russian modernism. The author reflected the pressing problems of the country in an innovative style, using the entire arsenal of the literary experimenter. Particularly noteworthy is his novel The White Guard, which describes the main historical events of the troublesome troubles ...
(315 words) Sergey Yesenin - a man with a primordially Russian soul. He was born in a simple peasant family, in the small but picturesque village of Konstantinovo, where his boundless love for the Motherland was formed. Many Yesenin poems are the result of the indestructible union of the poet and Russian nature ...
World War I. The soldiers of the twelfth company are yesterday’s men from the village of Chertukhino. Mikolay Mitrich Zaitsev, the son of Chertukhinsky shopkeeper, a young guy, recently promoted to ordinary warrant officer. His name is Bunny. He is a master at composing songs. Bunny is a kind and unrequited man: everything (and even sergeant-major ...
Hell Halfway through life, I - Dante - got lost in a dense forest. Scary wild animals around - allegories of vices; nowhere to go. And here is a ghost, which turned out to be the shadow of my beloved ancient Roman poet Virgil. I ask him for help. He promises to lead me away from here on a journey through the underworld, with ...
On February 28, 1936, on the third day after the military coup arranged by a group of young nationalist-minded officers who were dissatisfied with a too liberal government, Guards Lieutenant Shinji Takeeyama, unable to come to terms with the emperor’s order,condemned the uninvited intercessors and gave ...
(360 words) Many people are disappointed on the way to a dream, because they do not have the strength to go to the end. Something goes wrong, the desired remains the phantom, and reality dictates other ideals, other goals. As a result, we stumble, fall and do not rise, because we do not see the point in the new struggle....
Some people would have difficulty answering this question, but I had long ago decided for myself that the best book I have ever come across is “The House In Which ...” Mariam Petrosyan. This is a novel about a shelter for orphans with disabilities, which established its own laws that separate it from everything ...
On Good Friday April 15, 1927, mother-in-law Ippolit Matveevich Vorobyaninov, a former leader of the nobility, dies in the city of N. Before her death, she informs him that in one of the chairs of the living room, which remained in Stargorod, from where they fled after the revolution, she sewed all the family jewels....
A man in his thirties is walking along a dusty road among Oklahoma corn fields. After serving in prison for an accidental murder, he returns home to the farm. He leaves the prison ahead of schedule and therefore has no right to leave the state. At the farm, he must be expected by a large family of Jodes: grandfather and grandmother, father and mother, ...
: In childhood, the storyteller killed the coronet, and still can not forgive the death of a defenseless bird. The narrator recalls how in the early autumn of forty years, returning from fishing, he saw a bird. She tried to run away, but clumsily collapsed onto her side. The storyteller took possession of boyish excitement, he ...
Entrepreneurs should strive to create something meaningful. Most often people want not to create companies, but only to get rich quick. Entrepreneurship is not limited to making a profit. By creating products and services that make the world a better place, you create something truly meaningful. Helping people is important ...
: A young Irishman, to annoy his beloved Mexican, enters the ranks of American partisans. But his love is mutual, the young man becomes a Mexican rebel, wins and marries his beloved. Irish nobleman Florence Kearney arrives in New Orleans. The young man intends further ...
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