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Summary Enchanted Wanderer Leskov
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Brief summary of Zoo. Letters not about love, or the Third Eloise
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Summary Rat-fry Marina Tsvetaeva
MI Tsvetaeva Pied Piper “Pied Piper” – the first poem Tsvetaeva, written in exile, in Prague. This is a prophecy about the fate of the Russian revolution, the romantic period of which ended and
Summary “Master and Margarita” Bulgakova
In the main action of the novel there are two storylines. The first line is set in Moscow in the 1930s. The second line is a narration about what happened more than two thousand
“Life of Buddha” Ashvaghoshi in brief summary
The poem in 28 songs, from the Sanskrit original of which only the first thirteen and a half have survived, and the rest have survived in the Tibetan and Chinese transcriptions King Shuddhodana of
Summary Natalia, Boyar’s daughter Karamzin
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“Decameron” by Boccaccio in brief summary
In 1348, Florence was visited by a destructive plague, and a hundred thousand people died. Separated family and friendly ties, servants refused to serve the masters, the dead were not buried, but dumped in
Summary “Waiting for Godot” Beckett
The main characters in the play “Waiting for Godot” – Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo) – seem to be bogged down in time, nailed to one place by the expectation of a certain Godot,
Summary “Murder in Abby Grange”
Sherlock Holmes is one of those literary characters that is known to almost everyone, including even those who have not read anything about his adventures. He was due to appear to the great English