Summary Ugly duckling Andersen
G. H. Andersen Ugly Duckling Ducks have hatched ducks. One of them was late, and outwardly failed. The old duck frightened her mother that it was a turkey, not otherwise, but he swam better
Summary Irvin Shaw Rich, Poor
Irwin Shaw The rich man, the poor man 1945. The unusual family of Jordahs lives in the city of Port-Philippe. Nobody loves anyone in this family. Father, Axel Jordah, works in his own bakery
Summary “The Scarlet Ring”
Sherlock Holmes proceeds to investigate the murder of Colonel James Barclay in Oldershot, where the military unit is quartered. James was a brave soldier, for which he was promoted to officer. His wife was
Summary “Chamber 6” by Chekhov
A provincial town, a local hospital, an outbuilding for the mentally ill… The condition of this building, and of the hospital itself, is extremely miserable-everything old, half ruined, in the courtyard and in the
“Newcums” Thackeray in brief summary
In the Overture, which is a prologue to the narrative, the representatives of English society are compared to the heroes of fables, who are old as the world – cowards and braggarts, offenders and
Summary Verny Ruslan
GNVladimov Verny Ruslan The watchdog Ruslan heard how something out of the night outside exhaled, lanterns shook with a gnash. Calmed down only by morning. The master came and took him to the service.
“Insidiousness and Love” Schiller in brief
The action takes place in Germany in the eighteenth century, at the court of one of the German Dukes. The son of President von Walther is in love with the daughter of a simple
“At the walls of the hail of the invisible” Prishvin in brief
My homeland is a small estate of the Orel province. There, after listening to arguments at religious and philosophical meetings in St. Petersburg, I decided to go to look around, to find out what
“Intelligentsia and Revolution” of the Bloc in summary
“Russia is dying,” “Russia is no more,” “the eternal memory of Russia” – I hear around me. But before me is Russia: the one that our great writers saw in awesome and prophetic dreams.
“Ancient stories about the Han U-di-the Warrior” Warrior “Banu Gu in summary
Somehow the fortuneteller predicted the future wife of the Han emperor a great destiny. She really gave birth to a son who became the sovereign of the Udi. Since childhood, the boy was a