Home ⇒ 📌Brief contents ⇒ “Feeling and Sensibility” by J. Austin in Brief Content

“Feeling and Sensibility” by J. Austin in Brief Content


In the center of the narrative are two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Endless vicissitudes of their love experiences and languor and will form the plot of the novel.

But let us start from the beginning and try to understand the intricate plot lines and related ties of the characters.

Outside the narrative, a certain gentleman departs to the world, Mr. Henry Dashwood, a descendant of an ancient family, the owner of the beautiful Norland Park manor in Sussex. Mr. Dashwood had a son from his first marriage, John, and his second wife gave him three daughters: Elinor and Marianne, already familiar to us, and also younger Margaret, who will not play a big role in the narrative. But, however, beyond the narrative there is also one more owner of Norland Park, another Mr. Dashwood, which “our” Mr. Dashwood is a nephew. So, the aged Mr. Dashwood, when he died, bequeathed the whole estate with the adjoining lands to his nephew, and his son from the first marriage,

already an adult, already having his own son. A year after the death of his uncle, Henry Dashwood also dies, leaving his wife and three daughters without means of subsistence, entrusts them to the care of his son John. However, the last will expressed on deathbed, not being fixed on paper, at all times was a thing quite doubtful and to the performance is not at all obligatory, calculated only for the nobility of those to whom it was intended. Mr. John Dashwood did not suffer from excessive nobility, and if he had “good impulses”, so he had a wife, Mrs. John Dashwood, so that the impulses could be put out in time. Fanny quickly managed to convince her husband that it would be undoubtedly better if he did not give any support at all to his sisters and stepmother. And as a result, Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters were forced to leave the house in which they had lived happily for so many years-a rich relative, a certain Sir John Middleton who lived in Devonshire, offered her shelter. This cottage was a charming little house in his estate in Burton Park, and soon the ladies departed to their new penates, taking
with them all the tableware that included antique porcelain and silver, the loss of which for a long time painfully responded to the heart of the younger Mrs. Dashwood, left ‘sovereign landowner of Norland Park: this time the last will of the late Mr. Dashwood was not in her favor. Between Edward Ferrars, the brother of Mrs. John Dashwood, a man who is rather weak-willed, but sweet, as they say, innocuous, and Elinor has a feeling, but their marriage is impossible for the same reason: Elinor is a homeless girl. And the main, irreconcilable opponent of their marriage is the mother of Edward, Mrs. Ferrars. which included ancient porcelain and silver, the loss of which for a long time with pain responded to the heart of the younger Mrs. Dashwood, the remaining sovereign sovereign of Norland Park: this time the last will of the late Mr. Dashwood was not in her favor. Between Edward Ferrars, the brother of Mrs. John Dashwood, a man who is rather weak-willed, but sweet, as they say, innocuous, and Elinor has a feeling, but their marriage is impossible for the same reason: Elinor is a homeless girl. And the main, irreconcilable opponent of their marriage is the mother of Edward, Mrs. Ferrars. which included ancient porcelain and silver, the loss of which for a long time with pain responded to the heart of the younger Mrs. Dashwood, the remaining sovereign sovereign of Norland Park: this time the last will of the late Mr. Dashwood was not in her favor. Between Edward Ferrars, the brother of Mrs. John Dashwood, a man who is rather weak-willed, but sweet, as they say, innocuous, and Elinor has a feeling, but their marriage is impossible for the same reason: Elinor is a homeless girl. And the main, irreconcilable opponent of their marriage is the mother of Edward, Mrs. Ferrars. a person quite weak-willed, but cute, as they say, innocuous, and Elinor has a feeling, but their marriage is impossible for the same reason: Elinor is a homeless girl. And the main, irreconcilable opponent of their marriage is the mother of Edward, Mrs. Ferrars. a person quite weak-willed, but cute, as they say, innocuous, and Elinor has a feeling, but their marriage is impossible for the same reason: Elinor is a homeless girl. And the main, irreconcilable opponent of their marriage is the mother of Edward, Mrs. Ferrars.

So, our heroines arrive in Barton Cottage, and they do not have time to properly live up their new home, as a fatal meeting takes place, incredibly romantic: on a walk in the forest, Marianna, stumbling over some snag, turns her leg – and then, from where neither a young gentleman arises, he jumps off the horse and takes Marianna into the house. Passion flashes between him and Marianne from the first meeting. And I must say that before that, Marianne had managed to turn her head to yet another quite worthy gentleman. His name is Colonel Brandon. A person in the past who has a secret in him, therefore permanently in melancholy, silent and sad. And besides – incredibly old: he is already thirty-five, and Marianna with anger and contempt tells her sister that “in his year” it’s time to forget both about love and about marriage. At all, Marianne in the duet with Elinor is the personification of a recalcitrant, unbridled feeling, and her sister is of intelligence, the ability to “rule oneself.” So, Marianne and Willoughby spend the whole day together, without parting, for days, partly, perhaps, breaking secular decorum – but this is still a province, and the conventions here, in the bosom of nature, are observed a little less strictly. However, everyone in the district believes that they are the bride and groom, and their marriage is decided by the deed. Marianne herself does not doubt this. However, one day Willoughby unexpectedly appears in their house with a farewell visit: he leaves. His coldness and estrangement, and most importantly, the total uncertainty about his return – all this is staggering to the inhabitants of the Barton Cottage. Marianne is simply going mad from grief, unable to hide her despair and a broken heart.

In Barton Park, at one point, two more young ladies appeared, Steele’s sisters, one of whom, Lucy, shyly shaking her eyes, with feigned modesty, knowing, of course, about the feeling connecting Elinor and Edward Ferrars, it was she, Elinor, believes his “terrible secret”: it turns out that a few years ago he and Edward secretly became engaged, and, of course, the mother of Edward, the formidable Mrs. Ferrara, became an obstacle to their marriage, for the same reason. Elinor stoically listens to the revelations that an unexpected rival brings upon her, but between the two girls there is at once a mutual dislike, poorly concealed by equally mutual courtesies.

And another character appears in the novel: Mrs. Jennings, Lady Middleton’s mother, “a lady of very pleasant living temper, a good-natured cheerful woman, already in years, very talkative and vulgar in order.” A kind of “Bartonian gossip”, the meaning of life is the desire to marry everyone. And since she has already quite successfully married both her daughters, now she is busy with the device of happiness of the neighboring ladies. Perhaps because of this, seeing the broken heart of Marianne, she invites her and her sister to stay in her London house. So the Dashwood sisters get to the capital. Their regular guest is Colonel Brandon, who watches with bitterness the suffering of the so not indifferent Marianne. However, it soon becomes clear that Willoughby is also in London. Marianne sends him – secretly from her sister – several letters, receiving nothing in return. Then the case brings them to a ball, and Willoughby is cold again, courteous and far away: after saying a few meaningless words, he moves away from Marianne to his young companion. Marianne again unable to hide her confusion and despair. The next day from Willoughby comes a letter, utily courteous and therefore even more offensive. He returns to Marianne her letters and even a curl given to him. Apparently Colonel Brandon reveals Elinor’s “true face” Willoughby: it turns out that it was he who seduced Colonel Eliza’s young ward. As a result, Willoughby marries “by calculation” on the rich heiress of Miss Gray. The next day from Willoughby comes a letter, utily courteous and therefore even more offensive. He returns to Marianne her letters and even a curl given to him. Apparently Colonel Brandon reveals Elinor’s “true face” Willoughby: it turns out that it was he who seduced Colonel Eliza’s young ward. As a result, Willoughby marries “by calculation” on the rich heiress of Miss Gray. The next day from Willoughby comes a letter, utily courteous and therefore even more offensive. He returns to Marianne her letters and even a curl given to him. Apparently Colonel Brandon reveals Elinor’s “true face” Willoughby: it turns out that it was he who seduced Colonel Eliza’s young ward. As a result, Willoughby marries “by calculation” on the rich heiress of Miss Gray.

After this news events in the life of Marianne turn into a purely “emotional” plan, and in terms of the plot’s movement, the center of gravity is transferred to the fate of Elinor.

And everything is connected with Edward Ferrars. Accidentally encountering in the jewelry store with his brother John, Elinor and Marianne begin to visit his house on Harley Street, where Elinor again meets Lucy Steele. But self-confidence at one point or another almost killed this young lady: Fanny Dashwood and Mrs. Ferrara find out about her secret engagement to Edward, after which Lucy is shamelessly banished from the house where she and her sister just received an invitation to stay, and Edward, in his turn, is deprived of his mother’s inheritance. But, “as an honest man,” now he is going to fulfill this once-oath, combined with “unhappy Lucy” legal marriage. Colonel Brandon offers the surviving Edward a parish in his estate in Delaford. And asks Elinor to fulfill this delicate mission: to inform Edward of his proposal. The Colonel does not know that Elinor has long loved Edward, and therefore does not understand how much pain such a conversation will cause her. However, faithful to duty, Elinor fulfills the assignment given to her and, confident that now her dreams of marriage with Edward finally come to an end, she and her sister leave London. On the way home, to a mother they had not seen for a long time, they stay in Cleveland, with Mrs. Jennings. Unexpectedly, Marianne is seriously ill, she is unconscious, her life is in danger. Elinor turns into a nurse, caring and devoted. On the day when Marianne is finally getting better, the crisis is over, Elinor, tired, sitting alone in the living room, hears that a carriage has arrived at the house. Believing that it’s Colonel Brandon, she goes into the hallway, but sees the one entering the house… Willoughby. The Colonel does not know that Elinor has long loved Edward, and therefore does not understand how much pain such a conversation will cause her. However, faithful to duty, Elinor fulfills the assignment given to her and, confident that now her dreams of marriage with Edward finally come to an end, she and her sister leave London. On the way home, to a mother they had not seen for a long time, they stay in Cleveland, with Mrs. Jennings. Unexpectedly, Marianne is seriously ill, she is unconscious, her life is in danger. Elinor turns into a nurse, caring and devoted. On the day when Marianne is finally getting better, the crisis is over, Elinor, tired, sitting alone in the living room, hears that a carriage has arrived at the house. Believing that it’s Colonel Brandon, she goes into the hallway, but sees the one entering the house… Willoughby. The Colonel does not know that Elinor has long loved Edward, and therefore does not understand how much pain such a conversation will cause her. However, faithful to duty, Elinor fulfills the assignment given to her and, confident that now her dreams of marriage with Edward finally come to an end, she and her sister leave London. On the way home, to the mother, whom they had not seen for a long time, they stay in Cleveland, with Mrs. Jennings. Unexpectedly, Marianne is seriously ill, she is unconscious, her life is in danger. Elinor turns into a nurse, caring and devoted. On the day when Marianne is finally getting better, the crisis is over, Elinor, tired, sitting alone in the living room, hears that a carriage has arrived at the house. Believing that it’s Colonel Brandon, she goes into the hallway, but sees the one entering the house… Willoughby. that Elinor has long loved Edward, and therefore does not understand the pain that such a conversation will cause her. However, faithful to duty, Elinor fulfills the assignment given to her and, confident that now her dreams of marriage with Edward finally come to an end, she and her sister leave London. On the way home, to a mother they had not seen for a long time, they stay in Cleveland, with Mrs. Jennings. Unexpectedly, Marianne is seriously ill, she is unconscious, her life is in danger. Elinor turns into a nurse, caring and devoted. On the day when Marianne is finally getting better, the crisis is over, Elinor, tired, sitting alone in the living room, hears that a carriage has arrived at the house. Believing that it’s Colonel Brandon, she goes into the hallway, but sees the one entering the house… Willoughby. that Elinor has long loved Edward, and therefore does not understand the pain that such a conversation will cause her. However, faithful to duty, Elinor fulfills the assignment given to her and, confident that now her dreams of marriage with Edward finally come to an end, she and her sister leave London. On the way home, to a mother they had not seen for a long time, they stay in Cleveland, with Mrs. Jennings. Unexpectedly, Marianne is seriously ill, she is unconscious, her life is in danger. Elinor turns into a nurse, caring and devoted. On the day when Marianne is finally getting better, the crisis is over, Elinor, tired, sitting alone in the living room, hears that a carriage has arrived at the house. Believing that it’s Colonel Brandon, she goes into the hallway, but sees the one entering the house… Willoughby. However, faithful to duty, Elinor fulfills the assignment given to her and, confident that now her dreams of marriage with Edward finally come to an end, she and her sister leave London. On the way home, to a mother they had not seen for a long time, they stay in Cleveland, with Mrs. Jennings. Unexpectedly, Marianne is seriously ill, she is unconscious, her life is in danger. Elinor turns into a nurse, caring and devoted. On the day when Marianne is finally getting better, the crisis is over, Elinor, tired, sitting alone in the living room, hears that a carriage has arrived at the house. Believing that it’s Colonel Brandon, she goes into the hallway, but sees the one entering the house… Willoughby. However, faithful to duty, Elinor fulfills the assignment given to her and, confident that now her dreams of marriage with Edward finally come to an end, she and her sister leave London. On the way home, to the mother, whom they had not seen for a long time, they stay in Cleveland, with Mrs. Jennings. Unexpectedly, Marianne is seriously ill, she is unconscious, her life is in danger. Elinor turns into a nurse, caring and devoted. On the day when Marianne is finally getting better, the crisis is over, Elinor, tired, sitting alone in the living room, hears that a carriage has arrived at the house. Believing that it’s Colonel Brandon, she goes into the hallway, but sees the one entering the house… Willoughby. to a mother whom they had not seen for so long, they stop at Cleveland, at Mrs. Jennings. Unexpectedly, Marianne is seriously ill, she is unconscious, her life is in danger. Elinor turns into a nurse, caring and devoted. On the day when Marianne is finally getting better, the crisis is over, Elinor, tired, sitting alone in the living room, hears that a carriage has arrived at the house. Believing that it’s Colonel Brandon, she goes into the hallway, but sees the one entering the house… Willoughby. to a mother whom they had not seen for so long, they stop at Cleveland, at Mrs. Jennings. Unexpectedly, Marianne is seriously ill, she is unconscious, her life is in danger. Elinor turns into a nurse, caring and devoted. On the day when Marianne is finally getting better, the crisis is over, Elinor, tired, sitting alone in the living room, hears that a carriage has arrived at the house. Believing that it’s Colonel Brandon, she goes into the hallway, but sees the one entering the house… Willoughby. that the carriage had arrived at the house. Believing that it’s Colonel Brandon, she goes into the hallway, but sees the one entering the house… Willoughby. that the carriage had arrived at the house. Believing that it’s Colonel Brandon, she goes into the hallway, but sees the one entering the house… Willoughby.

Insanely agitated, he asks from the doorway about Marianne’s health and, only knowing that her life is out of danger, finally takes a breath. “I want to offer some explanations, some excuses for what happened, to open my heart to you and, convincing you that although I could never boast of prudence, the scoundrel was not always, to obtain a shadow of forgiveness from Ma… from your sister “. He reveals to Elinor his secrets – not too, frankly, interesting, he pours out his “suffering soul” and, romantic, disappointed, leaves, leaving Eleanor “in the power of a multitude of thoughts, although contradictory but equally sad Willoughby, contrary to all his vices, aroused sympathy, for they had condemned him to suffering, which now, when he was forever cut off from their family,

A few days later, walking along with Marianna around the neighborhood of Barton Park, where once they first met Willoughby, Elinor finally decides to tell Marianne about his night visit and an unexpected confession. “Marianne’s clear mind and common sense” this time takes precedence over “feeling and sensitivity,” and Elinor’s story only helps her to put an end to her sighs of unfulfilled happiness. Yes, however, there is no time to sigh both to both of them, for the novel’s action uncontrollably tends to the denouement. Of course, happy. For Elinor, it’s a marriage with Edward Ferrars: Lucy Steele, unexpectedly for both of them, freed him from the “honor obligations” falsely understood by him, marrying Edward Robert’s younger brother. Marianne, after some time after the wedding, the sisters, having subdued pride, becomes the wife of Colonel Brandon.


1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

Related posts:

  1. Summary “Feeling and Sensibility” Austin In the center of the narrative are two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Endless vicissitudes of their love (“sensitive”) experiences and languor and will form the plot of the novel. But let us start from the beginning and try to understand the intricate plot lines and related ties of the characters. Outside the narrative, a […]...

  2. Summary Feeling and sensitivity Jane Austen Feeling and Sensibility At the center of the narrative are two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Endless vicissitudes of their love (“sensitive”) experiences and languor and will form the plot of the novel. But let us start from the beginning and try to understand the intricate plot lines and related ties of the […]...

  3. Summary “Pride and Prejudice” Austin “Remember, if our sorrows stem from Pride and Prejudice, then we are also exempt from them Pride and Prejudice, for good and evil are so miraculously balanced in the world.” These words, and in fact, fully reveal the design of the novel by Jane Austen. The provincial family, as they say, of the “middle hand”: […]...

  4. “Pride and Prejudice” by J. Austin in brief summary “Remember, if our sorrows stem from Pride and Prejudice, then we are also exempt from them Pride and Prejudice, for good and evil are so miraculously balanced in the world.” These words, and in fact, fully reveal the design of the novel by Jane Austen. The provincial family, as they say, of the “middle hand”: […]...

  5. Composition “Feeling of the Motherland” Why is it so often that the motherland is identified with the mother, the most dear person in the world? Probably not by accident. Even the root of the word “motherland” – “giving birth” is connected with mother. The mother gave birth to you as a man. The native land gave birth to you as […]...

  6. “The Female Portrait” of James in Brief Content Mr. Tachit and his son Ralph live in his Gardencloth manor about forty miles from London. Mrs. Tachit travels a lot and happens in her husband’s house only a month a year. She spent the winter in her homeland, in America, met there with her niece and wrote to her husband and son that she […]...

  7. Love is a cosmic feeling The most sublime of human feelings is sometimes heard: the call of love is the call of nature itself. Thus, it seems as if it is asserted that one should simply trust such a feeling. After all, by nature there is and can not be immoral love. This is a situation where it is not […]...

  8. “Love under the Elms” by O’Neill in Brief Content The action takes place in New England on the farm of Effraim Cabot in 1850. In the spring, the old Cabot unexpectedly leaves somewhere, leaving the farm for sons – the elders, Simeon and Peter, and Ebin, born in a second marriage. Cabot is a rough, stern man, his sons are afraid and secretly hating […]...

  9. Biography Tracy Austin Tracy Austin – tennis player, was born on December 12, 1962 in the city of Palo Verdes, California. Biography Tracy Austin is known as the champion who defeated Evert and Navratilova. Teenydzherka won a place among the best tennis players of the era of Chris Evert and Mirtina Navratilova. Tracy was a young girl with […]...

  10. O. Henry’s “Jimmy Valentine’s Address” in Brief Content The famous safe burglar Jimmy Valentine, once again going to freedom, quietly taken for the old. There is a series of daring robberies, losses are significant, and the evidence is negligible. The case takes such a serious turn that the investigation is entrusted to the famous detective Ben Price, which allows the safe owners to […]...

  11. “Feeling of the Motherland” – what is it? My homeland is Ukraine. In answers to the question about the feeling of the homeland, there are usually neat white rural huts with storks on the roofs and a cherry garden around, a river as clear as glass, a blue sky with a lark singing in it… These sentimental representations are only the outward signs […]...

  12. “Pretty Moe Miscalculated” by Lin Mengchu in Brief Content Sister Mo, having made an escape, twice miscalculated, but then she combined a legal marriage with Jan II A certain official-clerk was married to a woman who was frivolous, inclined to love relationships. Even after the birth of her son, she did not care about the child, but only had fun. Once my husband left […]...

  13. The brief content of Nikolai Gogol’s comedy “The Marriage” The out-of-court adviser Podkolesin, lying on the couch with a pipe and thinking that it would not hurt to still marry, calls on Stepan’s servant, who asks about whether the matchmaker did not go in, and about visiting a tailor, about the quality of the cloth worn and not asked the tailor why the gentleman […]...

  14. “Dickens’ Heavy Times” in Brief Content In Kokstown live two close friends – if you can talk about friendship between people, equally deprived of warm human feelings. They are both at the top of the social ladder: and Josiah Bounderby, “the famous rich man, banker, merchant, manufacturer”; and Thomas Gradgrind, “a man of sober mind, obvious facts and accurate calculations,” who […]...

  15. Goncharov’s “Ordinary History” in Brief Content This summer morning in the village of Grachi began unusually: with the dawn, all the inhabitants of the house of the poor landowner Anna Pavlovna Adueva were already on their feet. Only the culprit of this fuss, the son of Aduyeva, Alexander, slept, “how to properly sleep a twenty-year-old boy, a heroic dream.” The turmoil […]...

  16. Mann’s Buddenbrooks in Brief Content 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 family consists of the old Johann Buddenbrock, his wife, their son Johann, daughter-in-law Elizabeth and grandchildren: ten-year-old Thomas, eight-year-old Antony – […]...

  17. Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” in Brief Content The action of the comedy takes place in a fantastic country for the English of Shakespeare’s time – Illyria. The Duke of Illyria Orsino is in love with the young Countess Olivia, but she is in mourning after the death of her brother and even does not accept the emissaries of the duke. The indifference […]...

  18. Summary The life of Marianne, or The Adventures of the Countess de *** Pierre de Marivo Life of Marianne, or The Adventures of the Countess de Marianne, departing from the world, on the advice of a friend takes up her pen. True, she is afraid that her mind is unsuitable for writing, and the syllable is not good enough, but believe me, she just flirts. The tragic event, […]...

  19. Summary of “Marianne’s Life” Marianna, having withdrawn from the world, takes the pen on the advice of her friend. True, she is afraid that her mind is unsuitable for writing, and the syllable is not good enough, but believe me, she just flirts. The tragic event, which happened when Marianne was not more than two years, leaves an imprint […]...

  20. Heller’s “Amendment-22” in Brief Content Fictional island Pyanosa in the Mediterranean Sea, invented by the author’s fantasy base of the US Air Force. Quite real World War II. However, each of the numerous characters of this extensive literary fresco has its own war, for the sake of victory in which they spare no effort, no life, and some – someone […]...

  21. Christie’s Enigma’s Enigma in Brief Content England, early thirties. Hercule Poirot with his old friend and assistant captain Hastings come to the seaside resort of Saint-Loup in the south of England. Near the hotel “Majestic”, in which they stopped, they meet a young girl. Nick Buckley. In conversation for a cocktail it turns out that she is the owner of the […]...

  22. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” Kizi in Brief Content Hero-narrator Bromden – the son of a white woman and an Indian leader – pretends to be weak, deaf and weak-minded. He has long been in a psychiatric hospital, escaping in its walls from the cruelty and indifference of “normal America.” However, the years spent by Bromden in the psychiatric hospital, make themselves felt. The […]...

  23. Herzen’s Past and Thoughts in a Brief Content Herzen’s book begins with the stories of his nurse about the troubles of the Herzen family in Moscow in 1812, occupied by the French; ends with European impressions of 1865-1868. Actually, memories in the exact sense of the word “Past and thoughts” can not be called: a consistent narrative is, I think, found only in […]...

  24. Abramov’s Roads-Crossroads in Brief Content Mikhail spared his sister and never told her, but he himself knew what Egorsha had married because of her-to take her old grandfather to her, dumb, and to be a free Cossack himself. But she loves him – it’s worth talking about Egorsha, how her eyes will glisten, her face will flare up. But he […]...

  25. “Truncated Spit, or Shaved” Menandra in Brief Content The text of the comedy remained only fragmentary, but the philologists carried out its reconstruction. The action takes place on Corinth Street. There are two houses on the stage. One belongs to the mercenary commander, chiliarch Polemon, the second to the parents of the young man Moshion. The Goddess of Ignition tells a traditional story, […]...

  26. “Unforgettable” in short content One intolerably hot evening in the house of Francis Hinzley in Hollywood comes Sir Ambrose Ebercrombie and finds the owner, the scriptwriter of the company “Megapoliten Pictures”, along with his young friend and poet Danis Barlow behind a glass of whiskey. All three Englishmen, and the British, according to Sir Eberkombi, here in America, should […]...

  27. Rousseau’s “Confession” in Brief Content “I told the truth.” If anyone knows anything contrary to what has been said here, he knows only lies and slander. “ His first misfortune, the author of these lines, calls his own birth, which cost his mother’s life. The child grows, showing the shortcomings inherent in his age; “I was a chatterbox, gourmet, a […]...

  28. “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 the newly appointed directors of this English publishing house Charles Trevor Stanton, and finally the writer Maud Mokridge. While the men […]...

  29. “Marianne’s Life, or The Adventures of the Countess de ***” Marivo in short summary Marianna, having withdrawn from the world, takes the pen on the advice of her friend. True, she is afraid that her mind is unsuitable for writing, and the syllable is not good enough, but believe me, she just flirts. The tragic event, which happened when Marianne was not more than two years, leaves an imprint […]...

  30. Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” in Brief Content On the dusty road among the maize fields of Oklahoma is a man of about thirty. This is Tom Jowd. After serving time in prison for an accidental murder, he returns home to the farm. He leaves the prison ahead of schedule and therefore has no right to leave the state. On the farm, he […]...

  31. Kafka’s “Process” in Brief Content The essence of the event is dispassionately stated in the first sentence of the work. Waking up on the day of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K. discovers that he is under arrest. Instead of a maid with a familiar breakfast, an unknown gentleman in black enters into his call. In the next room there are […]...

  32. “The Death” of Tendryakov in Brief Content The action takes place in the village Fires collective farm “The power of labor.” The people gather near the house of the dying chairman. Evlampiy Nikitich Lykov was famous not only in the region, but also in the country. Everyone understands that changes are coming, and they remember those thirty years that Lykov headed the […]...

  33. “Live and Remember” Rasputin in Brief Content It so happened that in the last war year a local resident Andrei Guskov returned to a distant village on the Angara in secret from the war. The deserter does not think that in his father’s house he will be greeted with open arms, but he believes and does not deceive his wife’s understanding. His […]...

  34. “The Man Who Was Thursday” by Chesterton in Brief Content Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, whose long, fiery curls, combined with a rough chin, suggested the connection of an angel and a monkey, and Gabriel Syme, a young man in a dapper suit, with a graceful blond man, met in the romantic and strange corner of London, called Saffron Park. a beard and a poet […]...

  35. Montaigne’s “Experiments” in Brief Content The first book is preceded by an appeal to the reader, where Montaigne declares that he did not seek fame and did not seek to bring benefits – this is primarily a “sincere book”, but it is intended for relatives and friends, so that they can revive his image and character when he comes the […]...

  36. “Minna von Barnhelm, or Soldiers’ Happiness” Lessing in Brief Content The retired Major Von Tellheim lives in a Berlin hotel with his faithful servant Just, with no means of subsistence. The owner of the hotel moves him from a decent room to a miserable little room. The last two months, Tellheym did not pay bills, but the room needed a “visiting person”, a young and […]...

  37. “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 of Aragon, with his retinue. Talking about the battle, the messenger mentions distinguished on the battlefield the young noble Florentine Claudio. […]...

  38. Summary of “New Eloise” Having met Yulia’s father in society, he tries to convince him that marriage ties with the unknown, but talented and noble Saint-Pre do not infringe on the noble family of the Ethanj family. However, the baron is adamant; moreover, he forbids his daughter from seeing Saint-Pre. In order to avoid a scandal, Sir Edward takes […]...

  39. “Autumn Light” by Gardner in Brief Content The novel “Autumn Light” takes place in the American province, far from the big cities. The quiet life of small towns, far from the senseless fuss and the frenzied rhythm of megacities, is not alien to the “accursed” problems of technocratic civilization, the dark, vile sides of big business and big politics. Heroes of the […]...

  40. Sheridan’s rivals in brief content The gallant captain Jack Absolute is in love with the charming Lydia Langwish, and his friend Fockland has a passion for cousin Lydia Julia. The girls respond to the fans with fervent reciprocity, and, it seems, nothing prevents the cloudless happiness of the heroes. But this happiness was in jeopardy, as the characters of the […]...

“Feeling and Sensibility” by J. Austin in Brief Content
«
»