“Les Miserables” Hugo in brief summary

In 1815, the bishop of the city of Dina was Charles-Francois Míriel, nicknamed for good deeds by Zhelanný – Bienvenu. This unusual man in his youth had a lot of love adventures and led

Summary of Holmes’s “Last Affair” by Doyle

With a heavy heart, I proceed to the last lines of these memories, telling of the extraordinary talents of my friend Sherlock Holmes. In an incoherent and – I feel it myself – in

SUMMARY Berlin – Alexanderplatz

Alfred Deblin Berlin – Alexanderplatz Franz Biberkopf, a former cementer and loader, has just been released from a Berlin prison in Tegel, where he stayed for four years for the murder of his girlfriend.

Bylina “Dobrynya Nikitich, his wife and Alyosha Popovich” in a summary

After many hard, but also bloody feats, Dobrynya Nikitich was spun from repentance. He turned to his mother with bitter words of reproach: it would be better if you did not give birth to

“Brothers and Sisters” by Abramov in summary

Pekashinsky muzhik Stepan Andreyevitch Stavrov cut down the house on the slope of the mountain, in the cool twilight of a huge larch. Yes, not a house – a two-story house with a small

Summary of the “Winter Battle”

In Russian history, there are events, gold burning on the tables of her military glory. And one of them – the Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942-2 February 1943), which became the Cannams of

Summary of “Cursed Days” Bunin

In 1918-1920 Bunin recorded in the form of diary notes his immediate observations and impressions of events in Russia. 1918 he called “damned”, and from the future expected something even more terrible. Bunin writes

Summary Updike D. D

John Hoyer Updike (born January 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) is a famous American writer, author of 28 novels and 45 other books: collections of short stories, poems, essays. Born in Redding, he

A brief summary of Chekhov’s “Booty”

Osip Ivanovich Dymov, titular counselor and doctor of thirty-one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: an intern and a draftor. From nine o’clock in the morning until noon he takes the

Russian man on a rendezvous

N. Chernyshevsky Russian man on rendezvous “The Russian man on rendez-vous” refers to the journalism and has a subtitle “Reflections on reading the story of Turgenev” Asya. “At the same time Chernyshevsky gives a
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