“History of my life” Casanova in brief summary

The illustrious Venetian adventurer, whose name became a household name, was a brilliant narrator; gradually he began to write down his stories; these records grew into memoirs. Like any true adventurer, Kazakova spends life

Summary of the “Cancer Corps” by Solzhenitsyn

All gathered this terrible body – the thirteenth, cancerous. Persecuted and persecuted, silent and vigorous, hard workers and money-grubbers – they collected and depersonalized everyone, all of them are now only seriously ill, torn

Summary “Black man”

My head plows with its ears, Like a bird with wings. She can not rest her legs on the neck anymore. S. A. Yesenin. Black man “Black Man” – one of the most mysterious,

“Notes from the Underground” by Dostoevsky in brief

The hero of the “underground”, the author of the notes, is a collegiate assessor who recently resigned after receiving a small inheritance. Now he is forty. He lives “in the corner” – a “crappy,

“Much Ado About Nothing” by Shakespeare in Brief Content

The action takes place in the city of Messina in Sicily. The messenger informs the Governor Leonato about the arrival in the city after the victorious end of the war of Don Pedro, Prince

“Freken Julia” Strindberg in brief summary

The action takes place in Sweden, in the count’s, a manor in the kitchen on the night of Ivan Kupala, when, according to folk tradition, among all who celebrate this religious and magical holiday

Summary of Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais

Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel The story of the exhilarating life of the great Gargantua, the father of Pantagruel, once composed by the master Alcobribas Nazier, who extracts the quintessence. A book full of

The “persistent prince” of Calderon in brief

The play is based on genuine historical events – the unsuccessful trip to Africa of the Portuguese troops under the command of the infants Fernando and Enrique, who tried in vain to storm the

Summary of the story “Antonov’s apples” IA Bunina

Chapter I Early autumn brings a lot of work to philistine gardeners. Those hired men – mainly for collecting apples, the smell of which fills the manors. On public holidays the burghers are engaged

Summary of the story of A. P. Chekhov “Surgery”

In the zemstvo hospital for the absence of a doctor who went to get married, the reception of a paramedic Kuryatin is taking. He is a fat man of about forty, wearing a worn
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