“Andromache” Racine in brief summary

The source for this play was the story of Aeneas from the third book of the “Aeneid” of Virgil. The action takes place in ancient times in Epirus, an area in the northwest of

Summary of the story of FA Abramov “What the horses are crying about”

Whenever the narrator descended from the village eel to the meadow, he seemed to fall into the world of his distant childhood – in the world of grasses, dragonflies, butterflies and, of course, horses.

“The Valencian Widow” Vega in brief summary

Leonard, a young widow, is faithful to the memory of her deceased husband. She spends whole days praying and reading pious books, not admitting to herself any of the admirers and seekers of her

Summary “Simplon Tunnel”

In Genoa, in a small square in front of the station, a dense crowd of people gathered-workers predominate, but many well-dressed, well-fed people. At the head of the crowd are members of the municipality,

“The Miserly Knight” by Pushkin in a brief summary

The young knight Albert is going to come to the tournament and asks his servant Ivan to show a helmet. The helmet is penetrated through the past duel with the knight Delormej. It is

Summary Foreigner Sergey Dovlatov

SD Dovlatov Inostranka Marusya Tatarovich is a girl from a good Soviet family. Her parents were not careerists: the historical circumstances of the Soviet system, which destroyed the best people, forced the father and

“The Ballad of the Mournful Tavern” by K. McCullers in brief

A small town in the American South. Cotton mill, workers’ houses, peach trees, a church with two stained-glass windows and a main street of yards in a hundred. If you walk along the main

Summary Rape of the curl

Alexander Pope Stealing curl The work is preceded by the author’s introduction, which is a dedication to a certain Arabella Fermor. Pope warns Arabella that she is too serious about his creation, explaining that

Summary of the “Oprichnik Day”

Sorokin definitely abuses the reader’s trust: Moho, Samsp, Marog, Bti and Shma have not yet disappeared from memory, but Potiks, Wax, Baldochay, Erokh and Samosya are already on their heels, and this is not

Summary of the story of IS Turgenev “Mumu”

“In one of the remote streets of Moscow, in a gray house with white columns, a mezzanine and a crooked balcony, once lived a lady, a widow surrounded by numerous courtyards… From among all
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