“Camera obscura” Nabokov in brief summary
1928 Berlin. Bruno Krechmar, a successful connoisseur of painting, who has his wife Annelise and daughter Irma, and who has never betrayed his wife for nine years of marriage, is suddenly carried away by
Summary “Artamonov’s Case” by Gorky
The Artamonovs’ Case Arrived in the city of Dremov Ilya Artamonov – a handsome stately man, told residents that he wanted to build a canvas factory on the riverbank. Earlier Ilya served as prikazychikom
Summary of Giuseppe Verdi. Aida
AIDA Opera in four acts (seven scenes) Libretto by A. Gislanzoni Characters: King of Egypt Amneris, his daughter Aida, slave, Ethiopian princess Radames, the head of the palace guard Rumphis, High Priest Amonasro, the
“Buridanov ass” Braun in brief summary
Karl Erp, the head of the district library in Berlin, the capital of the GDR, a forty-year-old family man with a nascent abdomen, wakes up in his room with a smile on his face.
“A Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich” Gogol in Brief Content
A fine man Ivan Ivanovich! What a glorious beak he has! When it gets hot, Ivan Ivanovich will throw off the bekesh, rest in one shirt and look at what is happening in the
Summary In a bad society
VG Korolenko In a Bad Society The childhood of the hero took place in the small town of Knyazhye-Vieno in the South-Western Territory. Vasya – that was the name of the boy – was
“No one knows the night” of Brunner in brief
Teenagers Simon and Lydia were neighbors around the house in Copenhagen. The boys in the yard shouted that Lydia had a whore’s mother; Lidia teased and tore them, and she was beaten, and she
Summary “The Wanderings of Wilhelm Meister”
The novel is a continuation of the “Years of Wilhelm Meister’s Teaching.” The hero who, at the end of the previous book, became a member of the Tower Society (or the Renouncers, as they
Summary “Natalia, boyar daughter” of Karamzin
The narrator yearns for times when “Russians were Russian”, and Moscow beauties wore sarafans, and did not flaunt themselves in Gallo-Saxon dresses. To resurrect these glorious times, the narrator decided to retell the story
“And again?” O’Faolein’s summary
In the spring morning of 1965, a resident of Dublin, journalist Younger, who turns sixty-five on this day, receives a strange message. Its authors. Celestial Celestials, who are in Eternity, inform him that they