“Duel” Chekhov in brief
In a small town on the Black Sea coast, two friends are talking during a bath. Ivan Andreevich Laevsky, a young man of about twenty-eight, shares the secrets of his personal life with the
“Assistant” Walser in summary
Swiss province of the beginning of XX century. A young man named Josef Marty is an assistant in the technical bureau of engineer Karl Tobler. Before entering the new place, Josef had to live
“Faithful Ruslan” Vladimirov in summary
The watchdog Ruslan heard how something out of the night outside exhaled, lanterns shook with a gnash. Calmed down only by morning. The master came and took him to the service. But when the
Summary Lyrynik Rodion Bunin
IA Bunin Lyrnik Rodion The author travels along the lower reaches of the Dnieper on a small steamboat “Oleg”. In the first class there is a girl (the captain’s acquaintance), in the second –
“Sukhodol” Bunin in the summary
“Suhodol” is a family chronicle of Khrushchev’s noblemen. In the center of the work, in addition, – the fate of Natalia, a courtyard, who lived with Khrushchev as a native, being his father’s milk
“Theresa Raken” E. Zola in summary
The novel begins with a description of a small haberdashery in the Parisian arcade, which contains Teresa Raken and her aunt of 60 years – Mrs. Raken. They live in the same building, on
Summary “White Silence” of London
Through the boundless snowy desert, three dog sleds are moving: Mason, his wife, an Indian Ruth, and his friend Mailman Kyd. Their products are running out. Hunger torments both people and dogs. Two hundred
Summary “The Past and Thoughts of Alexander Herzen”
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen – Russian writer, publicist, philosopher, revolutionary, the founder of domestic political emigration – was illegitimate child of a wealthy Moscow landowner I. Yakovlev. Born on April 6 (March 25, art.), 1812,
Summary “Eugene Onegin” by Pushkin
The novel in verse begins with the fact that the young nobleman Eugene Onegin goes to his uncle, anticipating a premonition of boredom. But, frankly speaking, Eugene is already nothing in life is happy
Remizov’s “irrepressible tambourine” in brief
An outlandish man Ivan Semenovich Stratilatov. Young began his judicial service in a long, low, smoky office of the criminal department. And now forty years have passed, and many secretaries have since been replaced,