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Katerina Lvovna, “outwardly a very pleasant woman,” lives in the prosperous house of the merchant Izmailov with widowed father-in-law Boris Timofeevich and the elderly husband Zinovy Borisovich. There are no children for Katerina Lvovna,
Summary “Nathan the Wise”
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Preparations for departure to the capital begins the third part of the trilogy. The main character – Kartashev’s theme is full of dreams about how he “will become serious, will be engaged, will be
Herzen’s Past and Thoughts in a Brief Content
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Summary Erofeev V. In
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“Last summer in Chulimsk” Vampilov in brief summary
The action takes place in a taiga district center in the early summer morning. Valentina, a slender, pretty girl of about eighteen, goes to the teahouse where she works, and on the way she
“Dangerous Turn” Priestley in Brief Content
To Robert and Fred Kaplen in Chantbari Kloe came friends and relatives for dinner. Among the invited married couple are Gordon and Betty Whitehouse, an employee of the publishing house Oluen Peel, one of
Summary of Kuprin’s “Barbos and Rings”
The watchdog was not tall, but squat and broad-chested. Thanks to the long, slightly curly wool, there was a distant resemblance to a white poodle, but only with a poodle, which was never touched
Summary of the “Feast” of Plato
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How steel was tempered NA Ostrovsky
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