Rousseau jak-jak – confession – a brief summary of the work, narration and retelling of the plot. Possibility to download or read online. He decided to radically change his whole life and was carried away by country walks, fencing and hunting. The brief contents of the Scopen rogue are the brief contents of the chapters … Read more
L. S. Mercier Pictures of Paris The author’s foreword is devoted to a communication about what Mercier in Paris is interested in – public and private mores, dominant ideas, customs, scandalous luxury, abuse. “The modern generation and the image of my age occupy me, which is much closer to me than the foggy history of … Read more
The action took place in the summer taiga center in the early morning. Valentina, being a slim and pretty girl of eighteen years, goes to work in the tea room. On the way, she examines the front garden in front of the house: again the boards are taken out of the fence, and the gate … Read more
MI Tsvetaeva Adventure Hotel; night; Italy; year of the 1748th. The protagonist – Giacomo Casanova, twenty-three years old, recovered from the IV volume of his own memoirs and supplemented, finished with a woman’s dream about the eternal Casanova, sleeps, dropping female names from her lips. His restless sleep is interrupted by hussar Henri, at first … Read more
The autobiographical novel of Nikolai Ostrovsky is divided into two parts, each of which contains nine chapters: childhood, adolescence and adolescence; then mature years and illness. For an unworthy act (poured the priest to the dough in the dough) the cook’s son Pavk Korchagin is expelled from the school, and he gets “into people”. “The … Read more
“The Frog Princess” is a fairy tale invented by the Russian people. Like many similar ones, she teaches kindness, purposefulness. Learn about what this work, understand its meaning, draw conclusions will help a short summary. “The Frog Princess” (work) refers to Russian folk art. The tale is listened to with pleasure by the kids. The … Read more
Brother and sister – Felix Young and Baroness Eugenia Munster – for the first time in their life come to their mother’s homeland in America. They grew up in Europe, feel Europeans and anxiously await a meeting with the Wentworth family – uncles, cousins and cousins. Felix is the first to get acquainted with relatives, … Read more
“So do in the world” – the last of four comedies, written by William Kongrig, the most famous of the galaxy of English playwrights of the Restoration. And though his other play, “Love for Love,” written five years earlier, was incomparably more famous, as well as a much greater stage success and a more rich … Read more
The poem begins with a prologue in which, on behalf of the author, a brief description of Germany is given in the era of the Thirty Years’ War, the main character – the Generalissimo of the Wallenstein Imperial troops is described, and also the time of what is happening -1634 is accurately indicated. The play … Read more
AS Neverov Tashkent – the city of bread Main characters: Mishka Dodonov – a boy of 12 years, his family – his mother and two brothers (Fedka 4 years old and Yashka 8 years old), all other relatives of the boy died of hunger, Seryozhka Karpukhin – his friend 11 years old), the man Prokhor, … Read more
Francis Coldheim in the attic of his house built the Aspen Factory – a device consisting of a dial and traps, where he launches a wasp, and from where she crawls, it depends on what death she will die. F. consults with the Factory, brings her victims – rats, gulls, dragonflies. F. is not registered, … Read more
The magical country was created by the magician Hurricapus. He long sought solitude, until he found a picturesque place. He surrounded the country with impassable mountains and deserts, so that ordinary people could not penetrate there. It is eternal summer, and the animals and birds are able to talk. For himself, the wizard erected a … Read more
The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century (in the years immediately preceding the beginning of the First World War) in Switzerland, in a tuberculosis sanatorium located near Davos. The title of the novel evokes associations with Mount Gerzelberg (Sinful, or Magic, Mountain), where, according to legend, Minnesinger Tannhäuser spent seven years … Read more
In a nutshell: Handsome engineer is losing a lot. A girl in love with him gets money for the player, but, feeling its fineness, runs away into the night and dies of the fever. Who loved her more than life, the rich man drinks poison. A young engineer, handsome Alarin is going home. With him … Read more
Meshchanin Constantine Mironov lives in a remote provincial town. When he was a child, his parents drank and often scandalized. At the same time, the mother was a religious person and went on a pilgrimage to the monastery. My father was an oddball. For example, he amused himself by attaching wooden pipes with rubber balls … Read more
With the titan Prometheus, the benefactor of humanity, we have already met in Hesiod’s poem “Theogony”. There he is an intelligent cunning, who arranges the sharing of sacrificial bull meat between people and gods so that the best part gets to people’s food. And then, when the angry Zeus does not want people to cook … Read more
John Beaver, a young man of twenty-five, lives in London at his mother’s house, which repairs and rents apartments. John at the end of Oxford, until the crisis began, he worked in an advertising agency. Since then, nobody has been able to find a place for him. He gets up late and almost every day … Read more
T. Wilder Day eight In the summer of 1902, John Barrington Ashley from the town of Coletown, the center of a small coal mining district in southern Illinois, was brought to trial on charges of killing Breckenridge Lansing, a resident of the same city. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Five days later, … Read more
The action takes place in France in 1942. Pre-trial detention. Several men and a boy of fifteen are sitting on the bench, anxiety and fear are on their faces, all of them were seized right on the street and German soldiers were brought here. Detainees are lost in conjecture – what is it, checking documents … Read more
O. de Balzac The Lost Illusions To feed illusions is the fate of the provincials. Lucien Chardon was originally from Angouleme. His father, a simple apothecary, in 1793, miraculously saved the girl de Rubambre, the last representative of this noble family, from the scaffold, and was thereby entitled to marry her. Their children, Lucien and … Read more
“One day they played cards with Konnogvardeytsya Narumov.” After the game, Tomsky told the amazing story of his grandmother, who knows the secret of the three cards allegedly discovered by her famous Saint-Germain, who certainly win, if you put them in a row. After discussing this story, the players went home. This story seemed implausible … Read more
CARMEN Opera in four acts Libretto by A. Meliak and L. Halevy Characters: Carmen, a gypsy woman, a cigar factory worker Don Jose, foreman Escamillo, the Toreador Mezzo soprano Tenor Baritone Tenor Tenor Bass Baritone Soprano Soprano Soprano Without singing Without singing Dankairo Romendado } Smugglers Tsuniga, the captain Morales, sergeant Micaela, bride of Jose … Read more
Summer. The last time the main heroine of Alya Amosova was in her native village of Letovka last year, at her mother’s funeral. Now she wanted to know as much as possible about the news from her aunt Anisya and Mani, who came to visit. They told her about the main thing – the construction … Read more
Vitaly Meshchersky, a young man who recently entered the university, comes home on vacation, inspired by the desire to find love without romance. Following his plans, he travels around the neighboring estates, getting to one of the days in his uncle’s house. Along the way, he mentions the child’s love of the hero in the … Read more
The narration opens with a letter to a friend Alexei Mikhailovich Kutuzov, in which Radishchev explains his feelings that made him write this book. This is a kind of blessing for work. Departure Having said goodbye to friends, the author-narrator leaves, suffering from parting. He dreams that he is alone, but, fortunately, there was a … Read more
Near the road from Derbent to Tarki, to the left of which rise the forest-topped peaks of the Caucasus, and to the right the bank of the ever-murmur, like humanity itself, of the Caspian Sea, lies the Dagestani village. There in May 1819 was a holiday. The Caucasian nature is charming in the spring, and … Read more
The novel “Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov is a book in the book. In the story of Satan’s visit to Moscow in the early twentieth century, a novella based on the New Testament is written, which was allegedly composed by one of Bulgakov’s characters – the master. At the end, two works are combined: the … Read more
This story I heard from one of its participants, the prince’s grandson Inya, and remembered it almost verbatim. Ina had a relative, husband. his cousin. His name was Zheng. He was very eager for wine and women. Somehow friends went on a feast. Zheng suddenly remembered an urgent matter and set off on a donkey … Read more
In a certain kingdom, there lived a landowner in a certain state, “and everything he had was enough: peasants, and bread, and cattle, and lands, and gardens.” He was stupid, read the newspaper “News” and the body had a soft, white and friable “. He does not like one thing, and, behold, he complains to … Read more
Susan Hill I’m in the castle of King Warings – the family home of the Hooper. He was bought by Edmund’s great-grandfather. There was not much money in the family, the land had to be sold with time, but the house remained. Now the grandfather who lived in Warings died, and Edmund and his father … Read more
The man Ivan Afrikanovich Drynov is riding on the driftwood. I drank with the tractor driver Mishka Petrov and now he talks with the gelding Parmen. Lucky selpovo goods for the store, and drove drunk in the wrong village, then home only – in the morning… It’s a habit. And at night on the road, … Read more
The story “Portrait” of Gogol was written in 1833 – 1834 and entered the cycle “Petersburg Stories”. The work consists of two parts, which tell us about two different fates of artists. The link between the stories is a mystical portrait of the usurer, which had a special impact on the lives of both heroes. … Read more
The titular adviser Aksenti Ivanovich Poprishchin, forty two years old, keeps his diary entries for over four months. On a rainy day on Tuesday, October 3, 1933, Poprishchin, in his old-fashioned greatcoat, leaves, after a while, for an unloved service in one of the departments of the St. Petersburg department, hoping to get a little … Read more
Bertolt Brecht Mamas Courage and her children 1 Spring 1624 The army of the Swedish king gathers soldiers to march on Poland. Feldwebel and the recruiter recognize only war as the founder of public order and civilization. Where there is no war, what kind of morality is there: everyone wanders wherever he wants, says what … Read more
Mario Puzo The godfather Vito Andolini was twelve years old when his father was killed, who did not get along with the Sicilian mafia. As the mafia hunts for his son, Vito is sent to America. There he changes his name on Corleone – by the name of the village, where he comes from. Young … Read more
The story consists of thirteen chapters. The author is called “St. Petersburg Poem” Titular adviser Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin wakes up in his apartment on a gray autumn day. In the mirror, a “sleepy, blind and pretty stitched figure” is reflected, and its owner remains, apparently, pleased with it. Taking out his wallet, Mr. Golyadkin finds … Read more
L. Petrushevskaya Three girls in blue Three women “over thirty” live in the summer with their young sons at the dacha. Svetlana, Tatiana and Ira are second cousins, they bring up their children alone (although Tatyana, the only one of whom, has a husband). Women quarrel, finding out who owns half the dacha, whose son … Read more
Honeymoon in full swing. Little McGarry, a welterweight boxer who does not know himself in the ring, is blissful. He is ready to fulfill any desire of his young wife. And when she cooed: “Darling, I would eat a peach,” he gets up and follows the peaches. But the Italian at the corner of the … Read more
William Shakespeare Anthony and Cleopatra In Alexandria, the triumvir Marc Antony is entangled in the silk nets of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra and betrays love and revelry. Supporters of Antony grumble: “One of the main three pillars of the universe On the position of the woman’s buffoon”. Yet Anthony decides to leave Egypt after learning … Read more
Vladimir Dmitrievich Dudintsev (1918-1998) – Russian Soviet writer. Born July 16 (29), 1918 in the city of Kupyansk Kharkiv region. Dudintsev’s father, Semyon Nikolayevich Baikov, captain of the Tsarist army, died during the Civil War (shot in Kharkov in red), and Vladimir brought up his stepfather, Dmitry Ivanovich Dudintsev, a land surveyor by profession. Mother … Read more
The action takes place in Austria-Hungary, before the November Revolution of 1918 K., a young man of about thirty years, arrives in the Village on a late winter night. He settles down for the night at an inn, in a common room among the peasants, noticing that the owner is extremely embarrassed by the arrival … Read more
The comedy “Woe from Wit” is both a picture of morals, and a gallery of living types, and a burning satire, and most of all a comedy. As a picture, it is huge. Her canvas captures a long period of Russian life – from Catherine to the Emperor Nicholas. In the group of twenty people … Read more
PEARL RETURNS Opera in three acts (four scenes) Libretto by M. Carre and E. Cormon Characters: Nadir Zurga Nurabad Leila Tenor Baritone Bass Soprano Venue: about. Ceylon. PLOT On the shores of the island, pearl divers gathered to choose the leader. The choice falls on Zurgu – the most experienced and respected hunter. Suddenly, from … Read more
While tired of prayer, Jesus sleeps in a quiet sleep on the Mount of Olives, the Almighty “among the myriad of worlds of radiant” converses with the Archangels. Archangel Eloah announces that the Messiah is called to bestow sacred joy and salvation on all worlds. Gabriel bears this message to the “keepers of kingdoms and … Read more
The narrator remembers how they walked along the big road, and in the young birch forest nearby the scythe mowed and sang. This happened a long time ago. And the life that everyone lived at that time will never return. All around were fields. The old big road, riddled with ruts, went into an endless … Read more
The scene is Paris and the Swiss village of Saas-Fee. Time is deliberately not specified. In the center of the narrative are three families – Profitandie, Molyneux and Aziza-Wedeli. They are closely associated with the old music teacher Lalerus, as well as two writers – Count Robert de Passavan and Edward. The latter keeps a … Read more
I. Ivan the Barefoot In the yard of the house where I live, comes Ivan Petrov, nicknamed “Barefoot.” He stands by the logs, but does not chop them for firewood. I know that he came only to ask for money to get drunk. Such as he is called “the rural proletariat.” An absurd discrepancy in … Read more
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye Seventeen Holden Kolfild, who is in a sanatorium, recalls “the crazy story that happened last Christmas,” whereupon he “just did not give the ends”, long ill, and now undergoing treatment and soon hopes to return home. His memories begin the day he left Pensi, a closed high … Read more
Fight with the Novgorodians Ninety years old lives in Novgorod Buslay. He does not argue with anyone and does not quarrel with anyone: neither with Novgorod, nor with Pskov, nor with Moscow. When Buslai dies, his son Vasily remains. When Vasily turns seven, he begins to walk around the city, go to the prince’s court … Read more
Six years had passed since the upset wedding of Krechinsky. It would seem that the landowner Muromsky, his sister Atuyev and Lidochka’s daughter should live peacefully in the village, forgetting about the “libelous” history with a false diamond. But why are they back in the capital, this time in St. Petersburg? Why live here last … Read more