Summary Death in Venice

Thomas Mann Death in Venice Gustav Ashenbach on a warm spring evening 19 … left his Munich apartment and went on a long walk. Excited by day labor, the writer hoped that his walk

Summary of the story by NV Gogol “The Enchanted Place”

The father of the narrator went to the Crimea to sell tobacco, so the house remained the narrator himself, his grandfather, his mother, and two brothers. My grandfather sowed a towel on the road

Summary of “Trifonov’s Exchange”

The action takes place in Moscow. The mother of the protagonist, thirty-seven-year-old engineer Viktor Dmitriev, Ksenia Feodorovna is seriously ill, she has cancer, but she herself believes that she has a peptic ulcer. After

Summary “Sunstroke” Bunin

They met in summer, on one of the Volga steamers. He is a lieutenant. She is a charming little, tanned woman (she said she is coming from Anapa). “… I’m completely drunk,” she laughed,

Summary In the first circle

AI Solzhenitsyn In the circle of the first On December 24, 1949, at five o’clock in the evening, state counselor of the second rank Innokenty Volodin almost ran away from the stairs of the

“Tupeyny artist” Leskov in brief

The author hears this story from the nurse of his younger brother Lyubov Onisimovna, in the past the beauty of the actress of the Oryol Theater Count Kamensky. At the Trinity, she leads the

Summary Self-extractor

Terentius Self-torturer Although Terence wrote in Latin and for the Roman viewer, his characters carry Greek names and it is assumed that the action often takes place in Hellas. So in this case. Severe

“Three girls in blue” Petrushevskaya in brief summary

Three women “for thirty” live in the summer with their young sons at the dacha. Svetlana, Tatiana and Ira are second cousins, they bring up their children alone. Women quarrel, finding out who owns

Summary “The Living Hat” Nosov

The “live hat” of Nosov begins quite normally. Two boys sit at the table and calmly draw. Nearby, at the dresser, a kitten plays. Suddenly, the characters hear something slap on the floor. It

“Wanderer” Veltman in brief summary

The literary journey is two-dimensional in nature: it is a real journey, and a journey of imagination. On the one hand, the material of the novel is the real journey of the officer A.
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