Summary “Twenty Years Later”
About ten o’clock in the evening, in a windy and rainy weather a tall policeman walked around his plot. Near the entrance to one of the shops, he saw a man and approached him.
Summary Don Gil Green Pants
Tirso Molina Don Gil Green Pants Dona Juana in a men’s suit – green pants and a camisole – comes from his native Valladolid to Madrid. Quintana, her old faithful servant, accompanies her. He
Summary Blindness
Elias Canetti Blind Professor Peter Kean, a long and skinny forty-year-old bachelor, peeps through the windows of bookstores during his traditional morning walks. Almost with pleasure he notes that the waste paper and the
Summary “Thick and thin”
The satirical story “Thick and thin” by Anton Chekhov wrote in 1883. In the work, the author ridicules the existing human vices in any society: hypocrisy and “riches”. For the first time Chekhov’s story
Summary Georgiy Illarionovich Mayboroda. “Arsenal”
“ARSENAL” Opera in three acts (seven paintings) Libretto by A. Levada and A. Malyshko Translation from the Ukrainian B. Paliichuk Characters: Maxim, a worker at the Arsenal plant Alexey, his younger brother Mother Maxim
Summary “Life of Arseniev” Bunin
Alexey Arseniev was born in the 70’s. XIX century. in the middle zone of Russia, in his father’s farmstead, on Kamenka farmstead. Childhood years passed in the silence of the discreet Russian nature. Endless
Summary Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev. Oresteia
ORESTEE The musical trilogy in three parts (eight scenes) Libretto by A. A. Venkstern Characters: Agamemnon, King of Argos Clytemnestra, his wife Aghist, his cousin Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra Orestes, son of
“Lolita” Nabokov in brief summary
Humbert Humbert, a thirty-seven-year-old lecturer in French literature, has an unusual inclination for nymphets, as he calls them – charming girls from nine to fourteen. A long childhood impression gave him this clandestine experience,
Summary The Ptolemaic
Gottfried Benn Ptolemeets The narration is from the first person. The author and the narrator, who owns the Lotus Beauty Institute, paints a few strokes of the picture of Berlin during the occupation, in
Summary “Vladimir”
Instead of arithmetic schoolchildren were sent to dig potatoes. The guys were happy with this replacement, invented entertainment: on the rod they sculpted a lump of earth and launched it into the sky. Who