“Puritans” Scott in summary
May 5, 1679 in the quiet wilderness of Upper Ward Clydesdale, a place in Scotland, all the new members come to the annual review. Dressed ladies and gentlemen, a motley crowd of onlookers. The
Summary Pushkin’s House
A. G. Bitov Pushkin House The life of Lyova Odoevtseva, the descendant of Odoevtsev’s princes, proceeds without special shocks. The thread of his life is flowing out of someone’s divine hands. He feels more
Summary “Hauptmann’s Before the Sunset”
The action takes place after the First World War in a large German city. In the mansion of the seventy-year-old Matthias Clausen, a sleek gentleman, the secret commerce of an adviser, his anniversary is
Summary “The Black Monk” by Chekhov
Andrei Vasilyevich Kovrin, a master, works a lot, sleeps a little, smokes and, at last, is frustrated with his nerves. The doctor advises him to spend the summer in the village. He goes to
“Colleagues” Aksenov in brief summary
Three friends – Alexei Maksimov, Vladislav Karpov and Alexander Zelenin – graduated from the Leningrad Medical Institute. The guys are friends from the first year, despite the difference in character and temperament: Maximov –
Summary “The Taverner of Ivan Kuprin”
The young man-narrator, whom “fate threw for six months in a remote village Perebrod Volyn province, on the outskirts of Polissya,” intolerably misses. His only entertainment is hunting with the servant Yarmola and trying
Summary of “The Crow and the Fox” Krylova
Guys, the chanterelle in the fable is flattering and very tricky, but not at all bad, it can not even be called simple. Willingness and ingenuity do not take her. But the crow on
Summary of the second part of the novel “Oblomov” IA Goncharov
I Stolz was a German only for his father, his mother was Russian. Stolz grew up and brought up in the village of Verklev, where his father was the manager. Since childhood, Stolz has
Summary “Tatyana Borisovna and her nephew” Turgenev
Tatyana Borisovna – a woman of about 50, with large gray eyes, bulging, ruddy cheeks and a double chin, her face breathes with affection. Widowed, she settled permanently in her little estate. She was
“Pompadour and Pompadour” by Saltykov-Shchedrin in brief summary
In a brief introduction, the author says that this book was written with the aim of shedding light on a very peculiar sphere of life activity in which everything is so dark and vague