Summary “Group portrait with a lady”

Leni Pfeiffer, nee Grüten, German. She is forty-eight years old, she is still beautiful – and in her youth was a true beauty: a blonde, with a beautiful stately figure. She does not work,

Summary of “Before the Third Cocks” Shukshin

Once in a library in the evening they began to talk, the characters of Russian literature about Ivan the Fool argued. “I’m ashamed,” said Poor Liza, “that he is with us.” “It’s embarrassing to

Summary of Agnes Bernauer

KF Hebbel Agnes Bernauer The action takes place between 1420 and 1430. The population of the free city of Augsburg looks forward to the knightly tournament, in which the Duke Albrecht of Bavaria himself,

“Russian Forest” Leonova in brief summary

A young girl with a sonorous name Apollinary Vikhrova comes after school in Moscow to study. Her mother stayed there, on the Yenge, in the Pashutinsky forestry, but her father was a professor in

Summary of Giuseppe Verdi. Don Carlos

DON CARLOS Opera in five acts (eight scenes) 1 Libretto by J. Meri and C. du Locle in the processing of A. Gislanzoni Characters: Philip II, King of Spain Don Carlos, Spanish Infant Rodrigo,

Summary of “Saint Mar Alfred de Vigny”

Saint-Marie Henri d’Affia, marquis – the organizer of the conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu; historical dates of his life: 1620 – 1642. At the beginning of the novel the young nobleman S.-M. goes from his

Brief description “Coming Cook”

The novel is preceded by a letter to the anonymous benefactor “chamberlain and various orders to the knight” in order to draw the reader’s attention to the fact that praise or indignation turns to

Summary Song about the falcon Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky The song about the falcon The sea ​​- a huge, lazy sigh by the shore – fell asleep and motionless in the distance, bathed in blue radiance. It merged with the sky,

Summary Iron Stream

A. Serafimovich The Iron Stream The novel takes place after the revolution of 1917, during the Civil War. A huge flow of people – either a camp of immigrants, or an army – entered

Summary “A Month in the Village” by Turgenev

When a new face appears in the village – this is considered an event. One summer a new home teacher came to the rich estate of the Islaevs. From the very first day of
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