“Shuans, or Brittany in 1799,” Balzac’s summary

At the beginning of Wandemähre, a crowd of recruits came from Fougères to Mayenne. Four years ago these places were covered by the royalist rebellion, and Fougeres was always considered one of the most

Summary Julia, or New Eloise

Jean-Jacques Russo Julia, or New Eloise “I observed the customs of my time and published these letters,” the author writes in the “Preface” to a real philosophical and lyrical novel. A small Swiss town.

Summary Rogue

Friedrich Schiller Rogues The action takes place in the modern author of the play of Germany. The plot unfolds for two years. Drama is preceded by the epigraph of Hippocrates, which in the Russian

Psalm Summary

FN Gorenshtein The Psalm Roman consists of five parts – each one tells of one of the plagues of the Lord that struck the earth, as the prophet Ezekiel prophesied. Part one – “The

Summary “Blue and green” Kazakova

The early stories of Kazakov remained in the circle of permissive cordiality. The most telling story is “Blue and Green” (1956). Kazakov said that he wrote it “on behalf of that Arbat boy”, as

Summary “Rust” Bradbury

Genius works always push foreheads supporters of different opinions, forcing the reader to support and hate one of the parties. This is how Rye Bradbury’s story “Rust” works, the summary of which is incapable

Summary Impatience of the heart Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Impatience of the heart In 1938, the narrator accidentally met the knight of the Order of Maria Theresa Anton Hofmiller, who told him about what happened to him a quarter of a

Summary ME Saltykov-Shchedrin Well-intentioned speeches

M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin Well-intentioned speeches In the chapter “For the reader”, the author is presented as a frontier man shaking hands with representatives of all parties and camps. His acquaintances are darkness-darkening, but they

Summary “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by Hoffmann

December 24, the house of the Stahlbaum Advisor of Medicine. Everyone is getting ready for Christmas, and the children – Fritz and Marie – are guessing what this time they will be presented as

Summary “The Legend of Arion” by Herodotus

Periander was the tyrant of Corinth. With him, as the Corinthians say (and this story is also confirmed by the lesbians), the greatest miracle happened in life. Arion of Mephimna was carried out on
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