Summary V. V. Nabokov Ada, or Passion
VV Nabokov Ada, or Passion “Hell” is a grandiose parody of different literary genres: from the novels of Leo Tolstoy through the cycle of Marcel Proust “In search of lost time” to fiction in
“The last term” Rasputin in summary
The old woman Anna lies without moving, without opening her eyes; it is almost frozen, but life is still warm. Daughters understand this, bringing to the lips a piece of a broken mirror. It
Summary of the novel by M. Yu. Lermontov “The Hero of Our Time”
“This book has experienced recently the unfortunate credulity of some readers and even magazines… Others are terribly offended… what they put as an example of such an immoral person as the Hero of Our
“Nowhere” Leskova in the summary
Two young girls, “poplar and birch”, Lizaveta Grigoryevna Bakhareva and Eugenia Petrovna Glovatskaya return from Moscow after graduation from the institute. Along the way, they visit the monastery for Aunt Bakhareva, Mother Superior of
Summary of Saint-Mar, or Conspiracy in the Times of Louis XIII
A. de Vigny Saint-Mar, or Conspiracy in the Time of Louis XIII. The plot of the novel is based on the story of the truly conspiratorial plot in 1642 of a favorite of King
“The House of the Seven Gables” is Hawthorne in short summary
In the warning, the author writes that all his characters are fictitious and he would like his work to be read as “a fantastic story, where clouds reflected over the Essex district, but not
“Death of a Salesman” by Miller in a brief summary
It sounds like an uncomplicated melody – about the grass, the sky, the foliage… Sixty-year-old salesman Willie Loman with two large suitcases goes to his New York house, sandwiched between skyscrapers. He is very
“Homo Faber” Frisha in summary
The events unfold in 1957. Walter Faber, a fifty-year-old engineer of Swiss descent, works at UNESCO and is engaged in setting up production equipment in industrially backward countries. At work he has to travel
“Tess of the genus d’Hervilleville” Hardy in brief
Deaf English province of the end of the last century. In the valley of Blackmore there is a family of the driver Jack Durbeyfilda. One evening, on the evening of May, the head of
Summary “The Wolf and the Lamb” Krylov
A strong man is always to blame: In History, we hear the darkness of examples, But we do not write History; But about how they say in Fables, – Thus begins I. Krylov’s fable