Summary “County doctor” Turgenev

One autumn, returning from the hunt, I fell ill. Fever caught me in the hotel of a county town. I sent for the doctor. The county physician was a man of small stature, thin

Summary of William Schiller’s “William Tell”

The action in the drama takes place in three Swiss cantons, which are located around the Firvaldshtetski Lake and were previously free, and now they are claimed by Austria. This led to a conflict

Summary The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy Death of Ivan Ilyich In the break of the meeting, the members of the Trial Chamber learn from the newspaper about the death of Ivan Ilyich Golovin, which followed on February 4,

“The Weeping of the Quail” by Chigrinov in brief

In early August 1941 Rodion Chubar, chairman of the Veremeykovsky collective farm, convened the last general meeting. The Germans were advancing, and it was necessary, according to Stalin’s directive, to steal a collective herd

Summary of “Star Boy” by Oulda

Poor woodcutter brought in the baby home with an amber necklace around her neck wrapped in a cloak with gold stars – he found it in the winter forest on the spot falling stars

Summary Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century (in the years immediately preceding the beginning of the First World War) in Switzerland, in a tuberculosis sanatorium

“Mandrake” Machiavelli in brief summary

The action takes place in Florence. Constriction is the conversation of Kallimako with his servant Shiro, addressed, in fact, to the audience. The young man explains why he returned to his native city from

Summary of “Petr Petrovich Karataev” Turgenev

Five years ago, in the autumn, on the road from Moscow to Tula, I had to sit almost all day in the postal house for a lack of horses. With cold despair I looked

“Dunno on the Moon” Nosov in brief summary

Events develop two and a half years after visiting the shorts of Sunny City Znayka, along with their scientists, Selyedochka and Fuchsia from the Sun City, flew to the moon and wanted to fly

“The philistine in the nobility” Moliere in brief

It would seem, what else does the respectable bourgeois, Mr. Jourdain, need? Money, family, health – everything you can wish for, he has. So in fact, no, thought the Jourdain to become an aristocrat,
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