“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a novel by American writer Mark Twain, the sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, published in 1876. Twain worked on the work for about ten years. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was first published in 1884 in the United Kingdom. In 1885, the Concord Public Library (Massachusetts) called the novel “garbage suitable only for slums” and forbade it. Twain reacted with irony, writing to his publisher that, thanks to the decision of the library, “another 25 thousand copies of the book” could be sold.
“The Adventures of Oliver Twist”, analysis of the novel by Charles Dickens
The plot of the novel “The Adventures of Oliver Twist” is structured in such a way that the focus of the reader’s attention is a boy who is faced with an ungrateful reality. He is an orphan from the first minutes of his life. Oliver was not only deprived of all the benefits of a normal existence, but also grew very lonely, defenseless against an unfair fate.
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“Great Expectations”, analysis of the novel by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expectations, first saw the light of day in 1860. In it, the English prose writer raised and criticized the important for his time problem of socio-psychological disunity between the upper world and ordinary working people.
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Collection “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman, analysis
Collection “Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1855-1891)
The writer typed the first edition of the collection in his own right in 1855. It was carried out for the author’s money, without indicating his name. The book had 12 poems and untitled poems. The cover was dominated by green. Throughout his life, with each new edition, he replenished the collection, leaving the symbolic name “Leaves of Grass”. The third edition of 1860 consisted of about a hundred poems. The most recent 1891 edition is considered the “deathbed edition”.
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“Song of Myself”, analysis of the poem by Walt Whitman
An analysis of poem “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman
The central place in the collection “Leaves of Grass” belongs to the poem “Song of Myself”, which has become a kind of poetic manifesto of the author. He began to write it back in 1855.
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Epic Theater of Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht was an outstanding reformer of Western theater, he created a new type of drama and a new theory, which he called “epic.”
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“Mother Courage and Her Children”, analysis of the play by Bertolt Brecht
The play is built in the form of a chain of paintings that depict individual episodes from the life of the second-Finnish warhead. Marketers were called merchants who accompanied troops on campaigns. Mother Courage has no illusions about the ideological background of the war and treats it extremely pragmatically – as a way of enrichment. She is completely indifferent to what flag to trade in her travel shop, the main thing is that the trade be successful. Courage also accustoms commerce to its children, who grew up in an endless war. Like any caring mother, she takes care that the war does not catch them. However, against her will, the war inexorably takes her two sons and a daughter. But, even having lost all the children, the marketer does not change anything in her life. As at the beginning of the drama, in the finale she stubbornly drags her shop.
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“Madame Bovary”, analysis of the novel by Gustave Flaubert
The novel “Madame Bovary” was based on the real story of the Delamar family, told to Flaubert by a friend – the poet and playwright Louis Buile. Eugene Delamard – a mediocre doctor from a remote French province, married in the beginning to a widow, and then to a young girl – became the prototype of Charles Bovary. His second wife, Delphine Couturier, languishing from bourgeois boredom, spending all her money on expensive outfits and lovers and committing suicide, formed the basis of the artistic image of Emma Rouault / Bovary. At the same time, Flaubert always emphasized that his novel is far from a documentary retelling of real history and the times even said that Madame Bovary does not have a prototype, and if there is, then he is the writer himself.
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“Salambo”, analysis of the novel by Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert began work on the novel “Salambo” immediately after the completion of “Madame Bovary,” exhausting him with descriptions of the French routine and lowland provincial customs. The writer turned to an oriental, exotic topic for Europe in order to improve his talent, which requires comprehensive artistic development.
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“The Vicar of Wakefield”, analysis of the story by Oliver Goldsmith
The moral, shrewd, and intelligent Oliver Goldsmith, the vicar of Wakefield lives a happy life with his household, which comprises the wife, Deborah, sons: George, Moses, Bill, and Dick, and daughters, Olivia and Sophia. The family lives a secluded and descent life. They are preparing for George’s marriage to an adorable girl, Miss Arabella Wilmot. Continue reading
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