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“Longren, a sailor of the Orion, a strong three-hundred-ton brig, on which he served for ten years, and to whom he was more attached than any son to his own mother, had to finally leave the service.” His wife Mary, in the absence of her husband, found herself in a difficult financial situation. She asked the owner of the tavern, Menners, to lend her money, but he demanded love in return. Mary refused and went to town to pawn her wedding ring. On the way, she got caught in a downpour, caught a cold, and soon died. For three months, before Longren returned, little Assol was cared for by a neighbor. Then she left their house, as Longren wanted to raise his daughter himself. Longren makes a living making toy boats. He almost does not communicate with anyone, and in Menners' shop he does not even buy matches. Longren still loves the sea, goes ashore to watch the storm. On one of those days he walks along the pier. Menners' boat is carried away from the shore along with the owner. He prays to Longren for help, but he silently stands on the shore and watches how the waves carry the boat into the raging sea, and then shouts: “She also asked you! Think about it while you're still alive, Menners, and don't forget!"

Menners miraculously escapes, and having recovered, tells the whole Kaperna (the village where the action takes place), a terrible story about the bloodthirsty Longren, who dreamed of drowning him. Since Longren himself, due to his own lack of sociability, does not refute Menners' story, people take it on faith. Longren's isolation becomes almost complete, the shadow of his gloomy reputation falls on little Assol. The girl grows up without friends, but gets used to her loneliness and lives in her own, fictional world, where there are toys made by her father - sailboats. One day she goes to the city to sell toys, on the way she launches one boat with scarlet sails along the stream, runs after it, goes astray and meets the storyteller Aigl. Egle tells Assol that when she grows up, a beautiful prince will sail for her on a ship with scarlet sails, who will make her happy. Assol tells a wonderful tale to his father. Longren says that everything Egle told is true. Their conversation is overheard by a random beggar, who blabs the story of the scarlet sails to the whole Kaperna. They laugh at Assol even more, tease her with scarlet sails and finally make sure that she is out of her mind.

Arthur Gray was born into a wealthy family. Since childhood, he did not want to live like his parents. Arthur was friends with the cook Betsy, whom he told amazing stories he had read in books. Once Betsy scalded her hand with boiling water, and Arthur asked if it hurt her. The girl angrily suggested that he try it himself, and the boy put his hand into the cauldron. He took Betsy to the doctor, and only after she had been bandaged did he show the doctor his hand. Arthur even gives Betsy all his savings as a dowry. The father is practically not engaged in raising his son, while the mother, who lived “in a half-sleep of security, providing for any desire of an ordinary nature,” passionately loves her son and tries to understand his thoughts. Once in the library, Arthur sees a picture depicting a ship with a captain on board. From that moment on, he understands what the purpose of his life is, and understands that his parents will never agree that their son becomes a sailor. At the age of fifteen, Arthur secretly runs away from home and enters the ship as a cabin boy. The captain is at first skeptical of the "aristocrat", but seeing the persistence and extraordinary determination of the young man, he changes his mind. Under the guidance of Captain Gop, Gray becomes a real sailor, matures, studies navigation, shipbuilding, maritime law, navigation, and accounting. Arthur receives a letter from his mother. Shocked by her grief, he goes to visit his home, where he has not been for five years. The father is already dead; mother turned gray. Gray buys the Secret ship with his own money, says goodbye to Gop and decides to visit his mother once every six months.

Gray's ship enters Caperna. Arthur goes fishing with the sailor Letika. By chance, on the shore, he sees Assol sleeping. Her beauty and charm of youth strike the imagination of a young man. Gray puts his old ring on her finger. He enters the tavern and, with the help of Letika, learns as many details about Assol as possible. In particular, Hin Menners, the son of old Menners, tells him a terrible story about the drowning of Menners by Longren, as well as the tale of scarlet sails. Gray decides that Assol is a completely normal girl, just that her beautiful romantic nature is not created for life in a rough and primitive Kaperna. He announces to his sailors that he will soon marry. Gray goes to the shop and chooses two thousand meters of scarlet fabric for sails, under which his "Secret" should approach Kaperna. He invites an orchestra to play when the captain's bride, Assol, appears on the shore.

Meanwhile, Longren's toys are no longer sold at all. Homemade boats have given way to expensive clockwork toys. Longren decides to re-enter the ship. Assol is already old enough to hold out until he returns.

In Assol, “two girls mixed in a wonderful, beautiful irregularity. One was the daughter of a sailor, a craftsman who made toys, the other was a living poem, with all the wonders of its consonances and images, with the secret of the neighborhood of words, in all the reciprocity of their shadows and light falling from one to another. She knew life within the limits set by her experience, but in addition to general phenomena she saw a reflected meaning of a different order ... She knew how and loved to read, but even in a book she read mainly between the lines, how she lived. Unconsciously, through a kind of inspiration, she made many ethereal-subtle discoveries at every step... More than once, agitated and shy, she went to the seashore at night, where, after waiting for the dawn, she seriously looked out for a ship with Scarlet Sails. These moments were happiness for her; it is difficult for us to go into a fairy tale like that, it was no less difficult for her to get out of her power and charm. When, waking up on the shore, she discovers a ring on her finger, she is frightened at first, but, listening to the voice of her heart, she realizes that the fairy tale predicted to her by the magician Egle begins to come true.

Longren leaves for ten days at sea. Assol feels that during the absence of her father, her home must, for some reason, become alien to her. In the morning she sits by the open window reading a book. In Kaperna's mind, the "Secret" appears under scarlet sails. An astonished crowd gathers on the shore. The name Assol is on everyone's lips. The girl herself raises her eyes and sees her dream in the sea. She rushes to the shore, people respectfully part. The orchestra is playing. The boat separates from the ship. Assol runs into the water and shouts: "It's me!" Gray picks her up and takes her to the ship. He promises to take on the ship and Longren when he returns, and arranges a grand feast for the team. The next day, The Secret leaves Caperna.

Longren was an unsociable and reserved person, he was engaged in the manufacture and sale of models of steamers and sailboats. The fellow countrymen did not like the former sailor too much, especially after one incident.

Once, during a severe storm, Menners, who was a shopkeeper and innkeeper, was carried far out to sea in his boat. Longren was the only one who saw what was happening. He calmly watched, smoking his pipe, as Menners asked to be rescued.

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When it became clear that he would not be saved, Longren shouted to him that his Mary had once appealed to a fellow villager for help in the same way, but did not wait for her.

On the sixth day, the shopkeeper was picked up by a steamer, and before his death, he told about the culprit of his death.

He only concealed how Longren's wife asked him for a loan five years ago.

Little Assol had just been born to her, the birth was very difficult, almost all the money was spent on treatment, and her husband was still on the voyage. Menners gave her advice not to be touchy, and then he would help her. The unfortunate woman had to go into the city in bad weather to pawn the ring. She caught a cold, contracted pneumonia and died. Longren was left a widower with a little daughter in his arms, he could no longer go to sea.

However, with all this, the news of Longren's behavior outraged the villagers even more than if he had drowned a man himself. The villagers treated Longren so unkindly that it resembled hatred and turned to Assol, an innocent girl who seemed not to need peers, she was fine with her dreams and fantasies. Her father was for her at the same time a mother, a friend, and fellow countrymen.

Once, when Assol was an eight-year-old girl, her father sent her to the city to bring new toys, among which was a small yacht with scarlet silk sails. Assol lowered the boat into the stream. He was carried away by the stream, the girl ran after the boat and ran to the mouth, where she met a stranger who was holding her boat in his hands. The stranger was the collector of fairy tales and legends, old Egle. He returned the toy to Assol and told that someday the prince would sail for it on the same ship with scarlet sails and take it to a distant country.

Assol told her father about this meeting. Unfortunately, a beggar overheard her story and spread the rumor about an overseas prince and a ship with scarlet sails throughout Caperna. The children now shouted after her: “Hey, gallows! Red sails are sailing! Assol began to be considered crazy.

Arthur Gray was the only heir to a rich and noble family, his childhood was spent not in a hut, but in a castle. His every present and future step was predetermined. But Arthur was a boy with a very lively soul, he was ready to fulfill his life purpose. He was determined and fearless.

Poldishok, the keeper of their wine cellar, told the young man that there was a place where two barrels of alicante were buried from the time of Cromwell, it was thick, like good cream, and its color was darker than cherry. The barrels are made of ebony, they are girded with double copper hoops, on them are the inscriptions: "Gray will drink me when he is in paradise." No one has tried this wine and will not be able to try it. Gray stamped his foot and announced that he would drink this wine. Then, clenching his fist, he added that paradise was here.

At the same time, Arthur was very responsive, he always helped those who needed help.

In the library of the family castle, he saw a picture of a famous marine painter, which struck him. This picture helped him understand himself. Gray secretly left the house and entered the service on the schooner Anselm. The captain was Gop, a kind but stern sailor. Gop appreciated the mind, stubbornness and love for the sea that the young sailor experienced, and decided to "make a captain out of a puppy." He trained Gray in navigation, sailing, maritime law and accounting. When Arthur was twenty years old, he acquired a three-masted galliot "Secret", on which he sailed for four years. Once fate threw him into Liss, which was an hour and a half walk from Kaperna.

As night approached, Gray, together with the sailor Letika, took fishing rods and went fishing in a boat. They left the boat under the cliff behind Kaperna and lit a fire. Gray lay down by the fire, and Letika began to fish. In the morning, Arthur went for a wander and saw Assol sleeping in the thickets. For a long time he looked at the girl who struck him, then he took the old family ring from his finger and put it on the little finger of the girl.

On the way back, Gray and Letika reached Menners' tavern. Now the young Hin Menners was the owner there, who said that everyone considers Assol crazy, because she dreams of a ship with scarlet sails and a prince, and her father is guilty of the death of the elder Menners and in general he is a terrible person. Gray doubted the veracity of these words, and his doubts became even stronger when the drunken collier said that the innkeeper was lying. Even without outside help, Arthur understood a lot about this amazing girl. Life was known to her within the limits of her experience, but she was able to see in phenomena a different meaning, which was incomprehensible and unnecessary to the inhabitants of Caperna.

In many ways, the captain himself was like that - not of this world. Going to Liss, in one of the shops he bought scarlet silk. Having met in the city an old acquaintance of Zimmer, a wandering musician, he asked him to arrive in the evening with his orchestra at the "Secret".

The crew was surprised by the scarlet sails, as well as the captain's order to advance towards Kaperna. But still, by noon, the Secret, under scarlet sails, was approaching Kaperna.

Assol was amazed to see a white ship with scarlet sails and hear music pouring from its deck. The girl rushed to the sea, the inhabitants of Caperna were already on the shore. Seeing Assol, they fell silent and parted. Everyone was watching the boat, separated from the ship and headed towards the shore. Gray was in it. Some time later, Assol was already in the cabin. Everything happened just as old Aigle had predicted.

A brief retelling of the "Scarlet Sails" extravaganza by Alexander Grin chapter by chapter. "Scarlet Sails" is a fairy tale that affirms the strength of the human spirit, the belief that a person is capable of performing miracles.

"Scarlet Sails" is a symbol of love and hope, a symbol of faith in a dream, the embodiment of the most unrealizable dreams.
When the soul harbors a seed of a fiery plant - a miracle, make it a miracle for it, if you are able. Alexander Green.

Chapter I Prediction. Longren served as a sailor on the Orion brig for 10 years. He had to leave the service as his wife Mary died.

It happened like this. When Longren was at sea, his wife Mary gave birth to a daughter, Assol, the birth was difficult, all the money was spent on treatment and caring for the newborn. Mary had to borrow money from the local innkeeper Menners, who promised her money in exchange for love. Then she went to town to pawn her wedding ring. The weather that evening was rainy, she caught pneumonia and died. Assol was left in the care of a neighbor.

Returning Longren took the calculation, and began to raise little Assol. But I had to somehow feed myself and my daughter. Then the former sailor began to make toy boats, sailboats for sale. He was a very reserved person, and after the death of his wife he became even more withdrawn into himself. Assol devoted all his time.
One day a storm arose in the sea. His sworn enemy Menners, could not cope with his boat, and was carried away to sea. Longren saw all this, but did nothing to save him. So Longren avenged his wife. Nevertheless, Menners was saved, but a couple of days later he died from a cold and horror. Before his death, Meneres told fellow villagers how Longren followed his death, refusing to help. He kept silent about the fact that at one time he himself did not help his wife. All fellow villagers further fenced themselves off from Longren. This alienation affected Assol. The girl grew up without friends. When she grew up, her father began to take her with him to the city to deliver toys to shops. Sometimes she went alone.

Once, on the way to the store, Assol played with a toy yacht with scarlet sails. She let it swim in the stream, but the toy was carried away by the current very far. The girl ran after her for a long time. Along the way, she ran into the old man Aigle, a collector of legends and fairy tales. He gave her the toy and said: "Time will pass, and a ship with scarlet sails and a prince on board will sail for you, which will take you to his kingdom."
Assol, excited, ran home and told her father everything. Longren was glad that his daughter was alive and well, but he thought about the fairy tale with time. This story was heard by a beggar who was passing by their house. He asked Longren for a cigarette, but he said that his daughter was sleeping and he did not want to wake her up, refused him. Offended, the tramp went to the tavern and there told everyone about the prince. And since then, all the children began to tease Assol that the red sails were already sailing towards her.

Chapter II Gray
Arthur Gray grew up in a rich and noble family, in a real castle. He was a very impressionable, kind child. Once in the cellar of the castle, Gray saw barrels of wine. There was a Latin inscription on the hoops: "Gray will drink me when he is in paradise." Nobody knew exactly what that meant. The guardian Poldishok said that no one drank or tried this wine, and Gray answered: “I will drink it!”

At the age of 12, he saw a huge picture, which depicted a ship on the crest of a sea rampart. This picture helped him understand himself, he wanted to become the captain of the ship, at the age of fifteen he ran away from home. He became a cabin boy on the schooner "Anselm" under the command of Captain Gop. This captain taught Gray the tricks of the sea, at the age of 20, Gray buys his three-masted galliot "Secret". At that time, he no longer had a father, and his mother did not take his passion for the sea seriously, but she was still very proud of her son.

Chapter III Dawn.
Gray sails on his ship to the city of Lissa, not far from which Caperna was located. Having unloaded the goods, the crew of the ship rests on the shore. In the evening, the captain wanted to go fishing and, having called the sailor Letik with him, they sailed in the boat. The wave washed them towards Caperna. They stopped behind a cliff, Dandelion began to fish, and Gray went for a walk along the shore. And in the thick grass he sees a sleeping girl. She amazes and fascinates him with her beauty. Gray could not restrain himself, put his old ancestral ring on her little finger. Trying not to make noise, he quietly leaves, and then decides to ask the locals about this beauty. In the tavern, he learns from the son of the late Mineres that the girl's name is Assol, and that she is "crazy", since she has been waiting for the prince on a ship with scarlet sails since childhood. The drunken collier who heard the whole conversation said that the words of the innkeeper could not be trusted. The girl is absolutely healthy.
Chapter IV The day before.
On the eve of that day and seven years after Aigle's prediction. More than once, Asol went to the seashore at night, where, after waiting for the dawn, she seriously looked out for a ship with Scarlet Sails. These moments were happiness for her; it is difficult for us to go into a fairy tale like that, it would be no less difficult for her to get out of her power and charm.
Assol continued to bring her toys to the city for sale, but they began to be poorly bought, as there were many overseas curiosities.
On that day "when Gray saw her" for some reason she could not sleep. Assol, obeying some inner call, went to the seashore to meet the dawn. She sat down in a meadow among flowers and trees, carefully looking at the horizon, imagining what she sees a ship, soon Assol fell asleep. When she woke up, a ring gleamed on her hand. She couldn't figure out where it came from. So Gray and Assol met for the first time.

Chapter V Combat preparations.
Gray returned to the ship and weighed anchor. He went to the shopping districts of Lis and bought 2,000 meters of scarlet silk. He hired musicians and told them to come to the ship. Returning to the ship, he listened to Letik, who brought a report on the Assol family. Gray realized that he was making the right choice.

Chapter VII Asol remains alone. Longren spent the night at sea, he thought about the future, about Assol, about what they should live on. When he returned home, Assol was not there, she came a little later. Her face beamed with a smile, her gaze was enigmatic.
Longren told her that he would get a job on a mail steamer. She was a little upset, but continued to smile, anticipating something good. Assol helped her father get ready and he left. She couldn't sit at home, she went out for a walk. On the way, Assol met a coal miner who was working with two friends. The girl told him that she would probably leave here soon, but she didn't know where yet. The coal miner was very surprised.

From the mouth of the river in the early morning comes "Secret" with scarlet sails on it. Gray stood at the helm, not trusting the sailor to helm - he was afraid of the shallows. His assistant Panten sat beside him, clean-shaven and pouting meekly. He still didn't understand the connection between the scarlet garb and Gray's direct target. Gray explains to his assistant that he will soon see a girl who cannot and should not get married otherwise: “I come to the one who is waiting and can wait only for me, I don’t want anyone else but her, thanks to her I understood one truth . It's about doing so-called miracles with your own hands. « Their ship is met by a war cruiser and ordered to stop. The captain of the cruiser cannot figure out why they need scarlet sails. But having learned for what purpose they are sailing, they are allowed to continue their journey, the cruiser even gives a salute in their honor. When Gray's ship approached Coperni, Assol was reading a book and looking out the window at the sea. Noticing a ship under scarlet sails, Assol runs out of the house. The locals were already on the beach. When Assol appeared, the people parted before her, the decorated boat descended from the ship to the sound of beautiful music. Assol runs to the boat waist-deep in water. Gray, who was in the boat, asked if Assol recognized him. She replied that this is how she imagined him since childhood. Climbing the "Secret" Assol asked to take her father with her. Gray replied that of course they would be together and kissed her hard. The same century-old wine was discovered on the ship. In the morning the ship was far from Caperna. Everyone was asleep. Only Zimmer, Gray's friend, did not sleep. He quietly played the cello and thought about happiness ...

In this section, a brief retelling, "Scarlet Sails" extravaganza by Alexander Grin chapter by chapter. You have read only a summary, for a deeper understanding, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the full version of the work.

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(434 words) Longren, the father of the main character Assol, was a sailor and went on a long voyage. Returning home, he learns that his wife Mary has died and he is survived by an eight-month-old daughter. The birth was difficult, the wife spent all her savings on recovery. Once, out of hopelessness, she went to hand over her engagement ring to a pawnshop to buy at least bread, after a long journey, Mary could not stand it and died. Little Assol was brought up by a neighbor who told Longren that they had large debts to Menners, the owner of the tavern.

Five years later, a tragedy occurred: Manners, who was in a boat, was swept into the sea, all this happened in front of his debtor, who did not help him escape. The villagers learned about what was happening and henceforth did not communicate with the Longren family. Assol became an outcast, she was even beaten.

Further, the author reveals the story about scarlet sails. At the age of eight, Assol saw a toy yacht with scarlet sails and, while playing, let it go along the stream that led her to the forest, where she met the storyteller Egle, he predicted her future fate. She will be found by a brave prince who will take her from the village on a ship with scarlet sails. The girl told this story to her father, but by chance a passer-by heard it and passed it on to the whole village, and since then Assol has been called a little crazy.

In the next chapter, the writer introduces readers to another main character. Arthur Gray is from a wealthy family. He grew up alone in the family and played alone, just like little Assol. One day, he came across a book depicting a ship in a storm, which inspired him. At fifteen, he went to sea, his parents asked him to return, and five years later he returned, but by that time Gray's father was gone. The son purchased a three-masted vessel "Secret".

Next, the writer describes the acquaintance of the main characters. Traveling, Gray sailed to Kapern and, walking through the forest, noticed a sleeping stranger of incredible beauty, it was Assol. At the tavern, he began asking people who she was. People called her crazy. Stories about Assol's dreams hooked him. One of the visitors shouted out that the heroine was not at all crazy, but even a very good girl. Gray gives the order: buy scarlet silk and gather talented musicians. Soon Father Assol again goes to sea to work.

The final chapter tells about a new meeting of heroes. On this day, the sailor's daughter was alone, reading a book, and a small bug stopped at the word "Look." Raising her head, she noticed a ship with scarlet sails. The girl ran to the pier, where the villagers had already gathered. They were shouting, pushing, throwing everything they were doing. The fragile heroine barely made her way through the crowd. She immediately knew that he had come for her. A boat was lowered from the deck, Assol ran up to it and saw him, that same prince. When asked if Gray would take the father of his beloved, he answered yes. He kissed Assol, and they sailed away.

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Longren was a sailor. One day, while he was at sea, his wife Mary died. Since they had a little daughter named Assol, Longren was forced to leave the sea and start making toys. When Assol grew up, she accidentally met the storyteller Egle, who predicted to her that when she grows up, the prince will sail for her on a ship with scarlet sails and take her away. She continued to believe in this fairy tale, even when she became a girl. At this time, Arthur Gray, the son of rich and noble parents, had already bought his ship for four years. One day he arrived in Liss, in a city not far from Assol's residence, and went for a walk. Suddenly, he stumbled upon the sleeping Assol. Struck by the beauty of the girl, he put his ring on her finger. Soon he found out everything about her and found out that she believed in a fairy tale about a prince on a ship with scarlet sails. Then he decided to do everything exactly as it was in her prediction. And now Assol was at home and had been happy for several days, as she found a ring on her finger. Suddenly, a volley of guns rang out. Running out of the house, she saw a ship with scarlet sails, and Gray was sailing towards her in a boat. She agreed to go with him, not forgetting to take her father with her.