The action takes place during one crazy day in the castle of Count Almaviva, whose households during this short time manage to weave a dizzying intrigue with weddings, courts, adoption, jealousy and reconciliation. The
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VI Belov This war Vanya – the son of Daria Rumiantseva – was killed at the front in 42nd, and a paper with a seal and an incomprehensible but painfully suspicious signature (one hook
In 1835, the family of Buddenbrokes, highly revered in the small German merchant city of Marienkirche, moved to a new house on Mengstraße, recently acquired by the head of the firm “Johann Buddenbroke”. The
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In the club of a large industrial city – sold-out. The hall is packed full, people are standing in the aisles. The event is uncommon: a novel by a young local writer has been
Brief summary of the first chapter The old lady-landowner of small size went to Petersburg to deal with the “blatant deed.” The landlord decided to help the “high-society dandy” by laying the house and
Once on a ferry Martin Eden, a sailor, twenty years old, defended against a gang of hooligans Arthur Morse, Arthur about the same years as Martin, but belongs to people well-to-do and educated. As
In Denmark, once ruled the king of the glorious kind of Skilding named Hrodgar. He was particularly fortunate in wars with neighbors and, having accumulated great wealth, decided to perpetuate the memory of himself