Essays on literary works 2024
The Image of the Snow Queen in Hans Christian Andersen's Tale
“Love and Loneliness in the Fate of Eugénie Grandet” (Based on the novel by H. de Balzac)
“An Essay-Letter to Honoré de Balzac” (“Droll Stories” - The Playful Tales of Honoré de Balzac)
Essay on F. Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy
Review of John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Analysis of “Mother Courage and Her Children”
A Review of Anna Gavalda's “35 Kilograms of Hope”
My Impressions of O. Henry's “The Last Leaf” and “A Retrieved Reformation”
The Character of Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles in Goethe's “Faust”
My Impressions of Dante's “Divine Comedy” (Inferno)
The Enduring Appeal of Edmond Dantes
Lessons from “The Three Musketeers”
Living by Honor: Lessons from Dumas and Verne
Love That Moves the Sun and the Stars: Dante's Divine Comedy
You Are Forever Responsible for What You Have Tamed (Antoine de Saint-Exupery “The Little Prince”)
Is the Lamplighter Mad? (Antoine de Saint-Exupery “The Little Prince”)
The eyes only see what the heart already knows (Antoine de Saint-Exupery “The Little Prince”)
Myth and Reality in John Updike's “The Centaur”
A Psychological Portrait of Sherlock Holmes
Analysis of Lord Byron's Poem “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”
Love of Freedom in the Works of J. Byron
The Poetic World of Byron: A Study of “Prometheus” and “The Vision of Belshazzar”
What is life, if not a machine driven by money? (From Balzac's novella “Gobsek”)
The brilliant author of “The Human Comedy” (Honoré de Balzac)
The Destructive Power of Money (Based on the stories of O. Balzac “Gobsek” and “Eugénie Grandet”)
What Led Père Goriot to Ruin? (Based on Honoré de Balzac's Novel “Père Goriot”)
The Life and Works of Heinrich Böll
The Underbelly of Post-War Germany: A Look Through the Clown's Eyes (Based on Heinrich Böll's Novel)
Honest Poverty: A Timeless Message (Based on a poem by R. Burns)
If they give you lined paper, write across it (From Ray Bradbury's “Fahrenheit 451”)
The Philosophical Nature of Ray Bradbury's Science Fiction
The great German poet and thinker (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)
The Role of Evil in Human Destiny (Based on Goethe’s Tragedy “Faust”)
Man and Nature (Based on Goethe’s ballad “The Erlking”)
Heroes of Hellas in the Poem “Iliad”
The Genesis of a “Krotzky” (Based on Hoffmann's “The Golden Pot”)
Quasimodo: A Paragon of Spiritual Beauty (From Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Victor Hugo: A Titan of French Romanticism
The Fate of Oliver Twist (From Charles Dickens' “Oliver Twist”)
Carrie's Quest for Happiness (From Theodore Dreiser's “Sister Carrie”)