A short story of D. Fonvizin’s comedy “The Minor”
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Summary “Two rich men” Turgenev
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Heller’s “Amendment-22” in Brief Content
Fictional island Pyanosa in the Mediterranean Sea, invented by the author’s fantasy base of the US Air Force. Quite real World War II. However, each of the numerous characters of this extensive literary fresco
Summary of “China Town”
Netov, learning about this, goes mad with joy, and Maria Orestovna… “Not the desired birth of a healthy child presented itself to her, and his own death…” Two months later, on Christmas week, the
The Amazing Story of Peter Schlemil
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Summary Pharaoh Boleslaw Prus
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Aldemaro, a young nobleman from a noble but impoverished clan, comes to the city of Tudela with his cousin Ricaredo for the wedding of Feliciana, the daughter of one of the most famous and
“Three friends” of Serafimovich in brief summary
Seven-year-old Vanya is helping her mother: she drives pigs in the yard, beats them with twigs. Then Vannyka runs to the stables to his father, watches him lubricate the cart wheels. “Vanyanka wanted to
“The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio” by Tolstoy in a brief summary
Once upon a time in a small town on the shores of the Mediterranean, the carpenter Giuseppe gives his friend Carlo the organ-grinder a talking log, which, you see, does not want to be
“Uncle Vanya” Chekhov in brief summary
A dull autumn day. In the garden, in the alley under the old poplar, a table is set for the tea. The samovar has an old nanny Marina. “Eat, Father,” she offers to the