“Quentin Dorward” Scott in summary

The action takes place in medieval France, amidst wars and complex court intrigues, the French King Louis XI, an intelligent and subtle politician, is fighting the mighty European rulers for the prosperity of France.

Summary “Choice of Sofia” by Styron

New York, Brooklyn, 1947. The novice writer Stingo, on whose behalf the narrative is based, set out to conquer literary America. However, while he has nothing to boast about. The work of a reviewer

“Simplicissimus” Grimmelshausen in brief

Fanciful Simplicius Simplicissimus. That is: a lengthy, unintentional and very memorable biography of some simply conscience, outlandish and rare vagabond or a vagant named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchsheim The action takes place in Europe

Summary of the story of M. A. Bulgakov “The Heart of a Dog”

Cold blizzard winter. In the gateway a dog is killed by the cold and hunger, to which the cook of one of the Moscow dining rooms also boiled with boiling water. He whines, howls

Summary Foma Gordeev Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky Foma Gordeyev The story takes place in the city on the Volga, in the late XIX – early XX centuries. Sixty years ago, on one of the barges, the wealthy merchant Zaev

“The Instruction of Vladimir Monomakh” in a brief summary

Turning to his children and to all who will ever read his message, Prince Vladimir Monomakh urges them to have, first of all, the fear of God in their hearts and do good, bearing

“Village” Faulkner in summary

The French Balka called part of the fertile river valley twenty miles southeast of Jefferson, the district of Joknapatofa, Mississippi. Once it was a colossal plantation, the remains of which – the box of

Summary of the “Mescher side” of Paustovsky

K. Paustovsky – the story “Meshcherskaya side.” Nature for K. Paustovsky is not only beautiful pictures of fields, hills, rivers and lakes, blue skies in his works. This is an expression of love for

Summary Ivan Turgenev Asya

IS Turgenev Asya NN, a middle-aged man of the world, recalls the story that happened when he was about twenty-five years old. NN then traveled without a purpose and without a plan and on

Summary of Sacher-Masoch L

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born January 27, 1836 in Lemberg (then the name of Lviv) in the family of the Chief of Police of the Kingdom of Galicia and Volodymyr Leopold Zaher. The ancestors
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