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Рассказ, написанный в 1930 году и впервые опубликованный в 1931 году. Входит в список обязательной литературы для средних школ. "В Лондоне в 1920 году, зимой, на углу Пикадилли и одного переулка, остановились двое хорошо одетых людей среднего возраста. Они только что покинули дорогой ресторан. Там они ужинали, пили вино и шутили с артистками из Дрюриленского театра".
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Alexander Grin
376 books85 followersAlexander Grin or Green is the pen name of Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevskiĭ (Russian: Александр Степанович Грин (настоящее имя — Алексaндр Степaнович Гринeвский)), August 23, 1880 – July 8, 1932) , a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor. He was a sailor, gold miner and construction worker, but generally lived a life of a vagabond.
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November 6, 2021
First Russian book (short story)!
February 3, 2016
Прекраснейший рассказ! Коротенький, но полный глубокого смысла, поднимающий важные вопросы социального характера, актуальные во все времена. Всегда есть много людей, считающих себя выше других. Однако все в мире меняется, никакое положение не гарантировано навечно. Важно всегда оставаться человеком и с уважением относиться к другим людям. Всем советую почитать, это не займет много времени.
September 16, 2024
The Green Lamp [1931] – ★★★★1/2
This short story begins in London, 1920. John Eve, a jobless and penniless young man, finds himself at the lowest point in his life in the city in the middle of winter. John has practically nowhere to go when he hears a proposition made to him in a bar from one rich stranger named Stilton. That man offers John ten pounds a month if John would rent a room in one unassuming building with a view to the street, and then would simply light a lamp covered by green cloth so it can be viewed from the street. John has to do this seemingly meaningless routine every day from five to twelve in the evening, just burning an oil lamp. Stilton then promises John that this would be his indefinite, paid "occupation", and, in some months or years, perhaps some influential people would come and make John rich.
Of course, this is Stilton's joke on poor John. Stilton merely wanted to play God with the life and destiny of some downtrodden man, using the man as his personal "living toy". However, John is oblivious to all that, and just needs a place to stay and the money, so has no choice but to follow Stilton's weird instructions. John starts doing what Stilton said, burning a green lamp in his window every night. However, what follows next is even more extraordinary that what happened in the beginning.
Alexander Grin (1880-1932) was a great Russian author known for his adventure-filled romantic novels The Scarlet Sails (1923) and She Who Runs on the Waves (1928). The Green Lamp is a simple story and another example of the author's admirable originality and ability to touch people's hearts. The story says much about what one simple opportunity or chance can do to a man (as natural talent and intelligence are useless if they just reside in a cave and never come out). Just like in his novel The Scarlet Sails, Grin shows in The Green Lamp that the joke is always on the society that tries to shame, fool, gossip about, or laugh at, an individual with a burning, often hard-to-understand, desire or eccentricity. In this story, what started as a childish game turned into one powerful symbol of unwavering dream and belief in the future. An object itself may not say much, but it may represent the world in a right context. The Green Lamp is a very short, but powerful tale of one drastic reversal of fortune and the importance of never losing hope. 💡
This short story begins in London, 1920. John Eve, a jobless and penniless young man, finds himself at the lowest point in his life in the city in the middle of winter. John has practically nowhere to go when he hears a proposition made to him in a bar from one rich stranger named Stilton. That man offers John ten pounds a month if John would rent a room in one unassuming building with a view to the street, and then would simply light a lamp covered by green cloth so it can be viewed from the street. John has to do this seemingly meaningless routine every day from five to twelve in the evening, just burning an oil lamp. Stilton then promises John that this would be his indefinite, paid "occupation", and, in some months or years, perhaps some influential people would come and make John rich.
Of course, this is Stilton's joke on poor John. Stilton merely wanted to play God with the life and destiny of some downtrodden man, using the man as his personal "living toy". However, John is oblivious to all that, and just needs a place to stay and the money, so has no choice but to follow Stilton's weird instructions. John starts doing what Stilton said, burning a green lamp in his window every night. However, what follows next is even more extraordinary that what happened in the beginning.
Alexander Grin (1880-1932) was a great Russian author known for his adventure-filled romantic novels The Scarlet Sails (1923) and She Who Runs on the Waves (1928). The Green Lamp is a simple story and another example of the author's admirable originality and ability to touch people's hearts. The story says much about what one simple opportunity or chance can do to a man (as natural talent and intelligence are useless if they just reside in a cave and never come out). Just like in his novel The Scarlet Sails, Grin shows in The Green Lamp that the joke is always on the society that tries to shame, fool, gossip about, or laugh at, an individual with a burning, often hard-to-understand, desire or eccentricity. In this story, what started as a childish game turned into one powerful symbol of unwavering dream and belief in the future. An object itself may not say much, but it may represent the world in a right context. The Green Lamp is a very short, but powerful tale of one drastic reversal of fortune and the importance of never losing hope. 💡
July 6, 2021
Любовь на все времена
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October 11, 2025почему почти все, что я читаю для итогового сочинения просто полнейший кал😔
December 30, 2016
Amazing
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