Summary Old-world landlords
NV Gogol Old-world landowners Afanasy Ivanovich Tovstogub and his wife Pulcheria Ivanovna live alone in one of the remote villages, called Old Rus in the Little Russia. Their life is so quiet that a
“Sprut” by Norris in brief
“Sprut” is a work about life and struggle for farmers’ rights of the San Joaquin Valley, created on the basis of a real event – an armed clash between farmers and government officials in
Summary Playing the classics Julio Cortázar
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Summary “A Thousand and One Nights”
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A brief summary of “Spring Turners” by Tendryakova
Spring flip-flops – a revolution in the minds of Dyushka – the main character of the narrative. Literally for one day the boy grew up and began to think about the meaning of life,
“Diary of the seducer” Kierkegaard in brief
The “seducer’s diary” is a part of the most famous book of the Danish philosopher and writer Seren Kierkegaard “Ili-Ili”, sometimes printed and separately, in the form of a novel. In the “Preface” to
Summary Arkhip and Lyon Maxim Gorky
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Summary Between a dog and a wolf
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Summary of The Scarlet Dawn
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The novel begins with an appeal to the reader from the last chronicler-archivist. Then follows the story of how the Foolovites settled down. Previously, they were dumbheads, because they had a habit of treading