Summary “The Case of Yevseyka” by Gorky

A small boy, Yevseika, was fishing on the beach. With boredom fell asleep and fell into the water. He was not scared. Dived and pulled the bottom. Looks around – good: “Creeping, not hurrying,

“Saga of the Gunnlaug Snake Language” in a summary

The saga begins with a story about the parents of the main characters. Thorstein, the son of Aegil and the grandson of Scallagrim, lived in the Gorodische. He was a clever and decent man,

Summary Victoria

Knut Hamsun Victoria The action takes place in the modern writer of Norway. From time to time, when a walk or a game is started, the children of the owner of the manor estate,

“The victim of the evening” Boborykin in brief

Rainy November evening in 186 * in St. Petersburg Mary Mikhailovna – twenty-three-year-old rich widow of the Guards adjutant – begins to keep an intimate diary to understand the reasons for his constantly bad

Brief Summary

Menander of Brusga This comedy in translation has another name – “The misanthrope”. Her main character, the peasant Kemmon, at the end of his life, became a fan of people and hated the whole

Summary of O. de Balzac The brilliance and poverty of the courtesans

O. de Balzac The brilliance and poverty of the courtesans In 1824, at a ball in the Opera appears a dazzlingly handsome young man on arm with a charming lady. To everyone’s amazement, Lucien

The Greatness and Fall of King Ottokar

F. Grilpartser The greatness and fall of King Ottokar In the Prague Castle of the King of Bohemia, Přemysl Ottokar, confusion reigns among his courtiers. Ottokar dissolves the marriage with his wife Margarita of

“Journey to the West” Wu Cheng-yen in brief summary

Xuanzang from childhood was ordained a monk, and possessed only one desire: to comprehend the great teaching of the Buddha. The most gracious goddess Guanyin long ago, at the behest of the Buddha, sought

Summary This is how things are done in the light

William Congreve Do It in the Light “So do in the world” – the last of four comedies, written by William Kongrig, the most famous of the galaxy of English playwrights of the Restoration.

“House on the Quay” Trifonova in brief

The action takes place in Moscow and unfolds in several time frames: the mid-1930s, the second half of the 1940s, the early 1970s. The scientist, literary critic Vadim Aleksandrovich Glebov, who has agreed in
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