“Life” Maupassant in summary

Northwest of France. Rouen. The May morning of 1819, Jeanne, a blond girl with blue agate eyes, the daughter of Baron Le Perthieux de Vaux, herself puts the suitcases and looks out the window

Summary “Badge of Trouble” Bykova

On the farm Yakimovschina, which is located three meters from the town of Vyselki, lived Stepanida and Petrok Bogatki. They had two children: the son of Fyodor (served in tank troops), and Fenya’s daughter

Summary of “Unknown Flower” by Platonov

There was a small flower in the world. No one knew that he was on earth. He grew up alone in a vacant lot; cows and goats did not go there, and the children

Summary of the novel by IS Turgenev “On the Eve”

On one of the hottest days of 1853, two young people were lying on the shores of the Moscow River in the shade of a blooming linden tree. The twenty-three-year-old Andrei Petrovich Bersenev has

Summary “The philistine in the nobility” Moliere

Morning in the house of Jourdain. The teacher of music and the dance teacher discuss how they were lucky with Jourdain: “We found just the kind of person we need.” Mr. Jourdain, with his

“Another Life” Trifonov in brief

The action takes place in Moscow. Several months have passed since Sergei Afanasievich Troitsky died. His wife, Olga, a biologist, still can not recover from the loss of her husband, who died at the

“Corridors of power” Snow in brief summary

The action of Ch. P. Snow’s novel “Corridors of Power” takes place in Great Britain in 1955-1958. The protagonist of the novel is a young Conservative politician representing the left wing of his party,

Summary “Peter the Great” by Tolstoy

By the end of the XVII century. After the death of Emperor Fyodor Alekseevich, a struggle for power begins in Russia. Rebellion streltsy, instigated by the princess Sophia and her lover, ambitious prince Vasily

Summary of “Dream of Makar” Korolenko

Makar is the main character, a peasant. The author himself referred his work to “holy stories”. Written in the Yakut exile (the winter of 1883), the story was inspired by the real impressions of

Summary Pendulum Foucault Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Pendulum Foucault The plot of this novel by a well-known Italian writer, philologist and historian of literature falls on the beginning of the seventies of the 20th century, a time when youth
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