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Sullen River
Vyacheslav Shishkov
The events of the famous Russian writer Vyacheslav Shishkov's novel "Sullen River" take place in Siberia before the October Revolution. The main character of the novel is Prokhor Gromov, and all the events mainly take place around him. At first, Prokhor, a simple and sincere young man, due to the influence of the family environment and social situation, loses his humanity, becomes greedy for gold, and becomes selfish and arrogant.
In the second volume of the novel, the author continues the story of the industrial activity of the Gromov family, shows the birth of the capitalist class on the example of this family, and emphasizes the sharp nature of the class struggle.
Mental conflicts, love, deep aspects of human behavior - all these were shown by the writer with great skill.
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Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac
Provincial Angevin winemaker papa Grande is very rich and unusually stingy, but lives modestly, saving on everything. The whole town of Saumur is wondering about the true size of his fortune. Grande is somehow attached to only one person and this is his only 20-year-old daughter Evgenia. She grows up in seclusion, which is disturbed one day by a visit from her Parisian cousin, the handsome young Charles Grandet. The young Parisian is sent to Saumur by his father Victor, the brother of Papa Grande, who asked him to take care of his son.
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Isaura the Slave
Bernardo Guimaraes
Isaura the Slave, a novel by the famous 19th-century Brazilian writer Bernardo Guimarães (1827-1884), enjoys continued popularity both in his homeland, Brazil, and throughout the world. Based on the novel, a well-known television series was filmed. The story of love and suffering of the young beauty Izaura, the perverted passion of her master Leoncio, the loyalty and nobility of Alvaro touch our hearts just as they touched the hearts of the writer's contemporaries. Even in the most turbulent times, many people, and especially women, want to be distracted from their everyday affairs, immersed in the ups and downs of someone else's love, family experiences, and console themselves with a happy ending, where vice is punished, and beauty and virtue are rewarded.
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A clockwork orange
Anthony Burgess
The novel by the famous English writer E. Burgess (born 1917), written in 1962, is devoted to the problems of violence against the human psyche and the moral degradation of the individual in a society of the near future.
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Live and remember
Valentin Rasputin
«Omon boisang, unutma» qissasida yozuvchi oddiy qishloq ayolining qochoq turmush o ‘rtog‘i tufayli fojiaviy yakun topgan qismatidan so'zlasa, «So'nggi muhlat»da u chin insoniy tuyg‘ular, oqibat, sadoqat va farzandlaming onaga hamda o‘zaro munosabatlarini mohirona yoritib beradi.
Shuningdek, ushbu to‘plamdan joy olgan «Yong‘in», «Mariyaga pul kerak» qissalari hamda «Fransuz tili saboqlari» hikoyasida ham qishloq hayoti, undagi odamlar, ulaming his-tuyg‘ulari, kechinmalari nozik tasvirlanar ekan, voqealar dilga yaqinligi va rivoji bilan kitobxonda zo‘r qiziqish uyg'otadi.
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