“Farewell, Gyulsary!” Aitmatova in brief

Last autumn, Tanabai came to the collective farm office, and the brigadier said to him: “We picked you a horse, a horse.” They are getting old, true, but for your work will come down.

A brief tale of the “Nightingale”

In the forest, next to the estate of the Chinese emperor, lived a nightingale. And he sang so beautifully that the poor fisherman, having heard, temporarily did not remember his seine. The wanderers who

Summary of Tonio Creager

Tonio Creger is a writer, the protagonist of a novel, a representative of the “spirit”, who, although aware of his superiority over representatives of “life,” still does not despise it, since he understands that

Summary The Caucasian captive Leo Tolstoy

LN Tolstoy Caucasian Prisoner Served in the Caucasus officer Zhilin. He received a letter from his mother and decided to go on vacation home. But along the way, and another Russian officer, Kostylin was

Summary “Count of Monte Cristo” by Dumas

February 27, 1815 in Marseille from the next voyage returns three-masted ship “Pharaoh”. Captain LeClair was not destined to set foot on his native land: he died of fever in the open sea. The

Summary “The Name of the Rose” Eco

The events described in the novel take place in the 14th century AD in a medieval Italian monastery. In the rich Benedictine monastery comes the famous religious figure of that time Wilhelm Baskervilsky with

Summary In the ravine

A. P. Chekhov In the ravine Utleevo village is well-known for the fact that “at the funeral at the factory owner Kostyukov the old man saw among the snacks a large caviar and began

“The moment of truth: in August forty-fourth” Bogomolov in brief summary

In the summer of 1944, all of Byelorussia and a significant part of Lithuania were liberated by our troops. But in these territories there were many enemy agents, scattered groups of German soldiers, gangs,

Summary of “Compromise”

The protagonist of the story is a journalist who was left without work. At the moment, he watches the newspaper clippings he collected over the last ten years. These ten years were years of

“Golden Pot” Hoffmann in brief

On the Feast of the Ascension, about three o’clock in the afternoon, a young man, a student named Anselm, was swiftly crossing the Black Gate in Dresden. Accidentally, he overturned a huge basket of
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