“Vena’s Foam Days” in Brief Content

The protagonist of the novel, Kolen, a very nice young man of twenty-two years, who so often smiles with an infantish smile that from this on his chin he even had a dimple, is

Summary of Gulliver’s Travels

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Summary The Tale of the Barrel

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Summary “Misanthrope”

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Saga “The Battle of the Magyour” in brief

On the northern islands lived the Tribes of the Goddess Danu, who comprehended magic, charms and secret knowledge. They possessed four greatest treasures: Lug’s spear, Nuad’s sword, Dagda’s cauldron, and the stone of Lia

Summary “Ovsyannikov’s Monogamy” by Turgenev

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“Persian letters” of Montesquieu in brief

The novel covers 1711-1720. The epistolary form of the work and the extra spicy material from the life of Persian harems, a peculiar construction with exotic details, full of bright wit and ironic description,

“Living” Mozhayeva in a summary

Fedor Fomich Kuzkin, nicknamed in the village of Zhivy, had to leave the collective farm. And it was not Fomich, the collective farm forwarder, who was the last person in the Prudki: he extracted

Summary The Venetian merchant

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The Captain’s Daughter. AS Pushkin

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