Summary “Retribution”
On December 2, 1851, President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon I, made a coup d’etat by dissolving the National Assembly and arresting the figures of the parliamentary opposition. On December 4, the army
Summary of Kamo Gundeshi? Senkevich
G. Sienkiewicz Camo ridge? Rome of the times of Emperor Nero, mired in crimes and debauchery. A nephew, a young and beautiful warrior, the patrician Marcus Vinicius, is Petronius, a writer, an esthete, a
The burden of human passion US Maugham
US Maugham The burden of human passions The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century. Nine-year-old Philip Carey remains an orphan, and he is sent for education to his uncle-priest in
Summary of “The Chorus and Kalinych”
The story “The Chorus and Kalinich” by IS Turgenev was first published in 1847 in the journal Sovremennik. The work opens the cycle of the writer “Notes of the Hunter”, dedicated to the life
Summary Dyadyushkin’s dream FM Dostoevsky
F. M. Dostoevsky Uncle’s dream Marya Aleksandrovna Moskaleva, thanks to her unrivaled ability to throw dust into her eyes, “kill” her opponent with a sharp word and cleverly fired gossip, is recognized as the
“Asya” Turgenev in brief summary
NN, an elderly man of the world, remembers the story that happened when he was about twenty-five. NN then traveled without a purpose and without a plan and on his way stopped in a
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
V. Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow On the eastern shore of the Hudson, in the depths of one of the bays, there is a village, not far from it there is a hollow,
Summary “The tale of how one man fed two generals” Saltykov-Shchedrin
Two generals found themselves on an uninhabited island. “Generals have served all their lives in some registry, they were born, educated and grown old, therefore, did not understand anything, even the words did not
Summary “Without smiles”
The adult Ilya Ilyich, although later learns that there are no honey and dairy rivers, there are no good sorceresses, although he jokes with a smile over the stories of a nanny, but this
Summary Forest Alexander Ostrovsky
A. N. Ostrovsky Forest In the estate of Raisa Pavlovna Gurmyzhskaya, “a very wealthy landowner”, Bulanov, “a young man who did not finish school in a gymnasium”, pestered Aksyusha’s pupil. Aksyusha leaves, and lackey