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Not so long ago there lived a student named Zhang, a young man of rare virtues, with a refined soul. He was already thirty-three years old, and he still did not have a lover.
Summary Caleb Williams
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A summary of “The Golden Cloud”
From the orphanage it was planned to send two older children to the Caucasus, but they immediately dissolved into space. And twins Kuzminy, in the orphanage Kuzmenshi, on the contrary, said that they would
Summary “Dirk” Rybakova
That morning, Misha Polyakov got up very early to cut out an eraser for the slingshot from Uncle Semyon, an obsolete bicycle camera. In the courtyard he saw a neighbor, a sailor Sergei Ivanych
Summary “The Tale of Shemyakin Court”
There lived two peasant brothers: one rich, and the other poor. For many years the rich gave the poor debt, but he remained as poor. Once the poor man came to ask the rich
Summary The Prince of Peace
SA Klychkov Prince of Peace “A long time ago it will be back” lived in Chertukhin, a man named Mikhail Ivanovich Bachura, nicknamed the Holy One. In his old age, his wife died, and
Summary “The Bead Game” Hesse
A far future unfolds before us. The Master of the Games and the hero of Castalia, Joseph Knecht, achieved the maximum formal and substantial perfection in the game of the spirit. He has nowhere
Summary “Spouses of Orlov” Gorky
The story begins with a description of a terrible fight between the Orlovs in their apartment, which is located in the basement of the old and dirty house of the merchant Petunnikov. Behind the
“Ice House” Lazhechnikov in brief summary
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The Trust that burst
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