“Mary Magdalene” by Hebbel in short summary

The play takes place in a small German town in the first half of the last century. In the house of the joiner Anton, known for his diligence and thrift, two women, mother and daughter. They began the morning with the fitting and discussion of the old wedding dress, and ended up talking about the … Read more

Short summary “Quiet morning” Kazakov Yu. P

Kazakov Yu. P. Quiet morning Early in the morning, when it was still dark in the hut, and the mother did not milk the cow, Yashka got up, found his old trousers and shirt, ate bread with milk, and took the fishing rods out of the hut. He accumulated worms and ran to the shed, … Read more

Summary of the “Spring Waters” by Turgenev

Dmitri Pavlovich Sanin (landowner fifty-two years old) sorts out the old letters in the table. Unexpectedly, he finds a case with a pomegranate cross and is immersed in memories. I of . In the summer of 1840 the young Sanin returned to Russia from Italy. He planned a trip to stay one day in Frankfurt, … Read more

“The Nightmares of the Stork Marabu” by Welsh in brief

Roy Strang is in a coma, but his mind is full of memories. Some are more real – about the life of the Edinburgh outskirts – and passed down in a grotesquely vulgar, stagnant language. Others – the fantasy of hunting the African stork marabu – are told in the bright, imaginative language of an … Read more

“Jane Eyre” Bronte in summary

Jane Eyre lost her parents early and now she lived with her aunt, Mrs. Reed. Her life was not sugar. The fact is that Mrs. Reed was not her own aunt, but only a widow of her mother’s brother. About the parents of the girl, she was of the lowest opinion, and how else, because … Read more

Summary of “Asya”

The story of Asya Turgenev was written in 1857. In it the author tells about the tragic love of a 25-year-old man of the world and a 17-year-old village girl. The story is written in the first person, a certain N. N., who recalls the love story that happened to him during his youth. Main … Read more

O Rus my wife is mine

The beginning of XX century. Art drowns in symbolic indistinct images, the homeland lives in pictures and verses then as a misty ideal, then as elegant pictures of a charming old time, exquisite ladies and gentlemen, a serene and beautiful life. But time demands change, there is a need for other images, in a sensitive, … Read more

What is the value of human life?

I will not talk about all people, I’d rather tell you what I see the value of my life-the life of a young girl. Each girl is a future mother. Therefore, the value of her life is primarily in future children, in those great accomplishments that they will have, in matters that will be her … Read more

“My family” composition

Everyone loves and appreciates his home and his family. After all, the house is considered to be its own fortress, where you can hide from all life’s misfortunes, and the people who live in it, who will always understand and support at a difficult moment – this is the family. And its role for each … Read more

Summary Zalygin S. P

Sergei Pavlovich Zalygin (November 23 (December 6) 1913 – April 19, 2000) – Russian Soviet writer. Editor of the journal “New World”, on his initiative in the USSR in 1988, again began to print AI Solzhenitsyn. Zalygin was born on December 6, 1913 (November 23 in the old style) in the village of Durasovka Sterlitamak … Read more