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1. “Breathing easy” Bunin in brief Exposition of the story – a description of the grave of the main character. Then follows the presentation of its history. Olya Meshcherskaya is a successful, capable and playful schoolgirl, indifferent to the instructions of a classy lady. At the age of fifteen she was a recognized beauty, had the most fans, danced best at […]...
2. A summary of Bunin’s “Easy Breathing” Female characters often became the focus of Ivan Bunin’s creative search. Apparently, he was interested in exploring their mystery and incomprehensibility. In a story about light breathing, written in 1916, Bunin explores such qualities of the nature of the child girl as insecurity, ease and naivety. The history of her tragedy can convey a brief […]...
3. “Easy breathing” composition The story “Easy breathing” written by I. Bunin in 1916. It reflects the philosophical motifs of life and death, beautiful and ugly, which were in the center of the writer’s attention. In this story Bunin develops one of the leading problems for his creative work: love and death. According to artistic skill “Easy breathing” is […]...
4. A short summary “On every wise man is quite simple” Ostrovsky Moscow, the decade of reforms of Alexander II. In a small, well-kept apartment, a widow’s mother and her young son, Yegor Dmitrievich Glumov, live. From the conversation it becomes clear that Glumov tells his mother that he will try to achieve success through his acquaintances, and not as before. He also says that he has […]...
5. “The visit of the old lady” Durenmatt in short summary The action takes place in the provincial Swiss town of Güllen in the 50’s. XX century. In the town comes the old multimillionaire Clara Tsakhanassyan, a nee Vesher, a former resident of Gullen. At one time several industrial enterprises worked in the town, but one by one they went bankrupt, and the town came to […]...
6. “Kreutzer Sonata” by Tolstoy in short summary Early spring. The end of the century. In Russia there is a train. In the car there is a lively conversation; merchant, clerk, attorney, smoking lady and other passengers argue about the women’s question, about marriage and free love. Only love covers marriage, says the smoking lady. Here, in the middle of her speech, a […]...
7. “Return to Brideshead” in a short summary During the Second World War, while in England and commanding a company that did not take part in hostilities, Captain Charles Ryder received orders from the commanders to transport his subordinates to a new place. Arriving at the place of destination, the captain discovers that he was at the Brideshead estate, with which his whole […]...
8. Summary of “Rusya” Late in the evening a passenger train Moscow-Sevastopol stopped at one of the stations. He made a stop somewhere outside Podolsk and it was unplanned. The lady from the first class car asked the conductor why the train stopped. From him received an answer that they miss the late courier staff. The station was already […]...
9. “Adventure” by Tsvetaeva in short summary Hotel; night; Italy; year of the 1748th. The protagonist – Giacomo Casanova, twenty-three years old, recovered from the IV volume of his own memoirs and supplemented, finished with a woman’s dream about the eternal Casanova, sleeps, dropping female names from her lips. His restless sleep is interrupted by hussar Henri, at first impression – a […]...
10. “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 […]...
11. “Sign of the Four” by Doyle in short summary Events of the “Sign of Four” are unfolding in London in 1888. During the forced idleness associated with the lack of orders, the famous detective-consultant Sherlock Holmes, living on Baker Street in house 221-6, together with his friend Dr. Watson, his deductive method, which he uses to solve crimes. Sherlock Holmes is convinced that by […]...
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16. “Türkare” Lesage in short summary The young baroness was after the death of her husband in very cramped circumstances. Therefore, she is forced to encourage courtship of a little sympathetic and distant from her circle, the businessman Türkare, who is in love with her and promises to marry. It’s not entirely clear how far their relationship went, but the fact […]...
17. Balzac’s Father Gorio in short summary The main events take place in the boarding house of “mother” Voke. At the end of November 1819, seven permanent “spongers” are found here: on the second floor – the young young lady Quiz Tyfer with a distant relative of Madame Couture; on the third – a retired officer Poiret and a mysterious middle-aged man […]...
18. Short summary Sh. Bronte Gorodok Lucy Snow was early lost her parents, but she was lucky with close people who did not leave the girl to the mercy of fate. So, often Lucy lived in the house of her godmother, Mrs. Bretton, an immature widow and a sweet woman. Mrs. Bretton had a son, John, who, however, […]...
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20. Shakespeare’s Macbeth in short summary Location – England and Scotland. The time of action is the 11th century. The tragedy begins with a conversation between the three witches, who are discussing when they come together again – decide to get together “as soon as the battle ends with the victory of the side of one.” In a military camp near […]...
21. “Sevastopol Stories” by Tolstoy in short summary Sevastopol in the month of December “The morning dawn is just beginning to paint the sky over Sapun Mountain, the dark blue sea surface has already thrown off the darkness of the night and is waiting for the first ray to sparkle with gay brilliance, from the bay it bears cold and fog, there is […]...
22. “History of Syunkin” Junichiro in short summary Who Moduya, known as Syunkin, was born in Osaka in the family of an apothecary in 1828. She was the most beautiful and most gifted of all the children of an apothecary, moreover, she had an even, cheerful disposition. But at eight, the girl suffered a misfortune: she was blind. Since that time, she left […]...
23. “The House of the Seven Gables” is Hawthorne in short summary In the warning, the author writes that all his characters are fictitious and he would like his work to be read as “a fantastic story, where clouds reflected over the Essex district, but not even the span of his land is imprinted.” In one of the towns of New England, on the street, which everyone […]...
24. Drama “To kill a dog in order to reason with her husband” in a short summary On the birthday of merchant Sun Zhong, only two of his soul mates are to come, two scoundrels – Liu Longqing and Hu Jijun. The wife, who has covered the festive table, reproaches her husband with bitterness that the younger brother, Sun Chuner, is not invited. He was excommunicated from the house by the slander […]...
25. “Ball” of Baratynsky in short summary The poem begins with a description of the Moscow ball. The guests came together, the elderly ladies in magnificent dresses sit near the walls and look at the crowd with “dull attention”. Grandees in ribbons and stars sit behind cards and sometimes come to look at the dancers. Young beauties are whirling, “The Hussar twists […]...
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29. Odoevsky’s “Sylphide” in short summary My friend Platon Mikhailovich decided to move to the village. He settled in the house of the late uncle and for the first time was completely blissful. From one kind of huge village uncle’s armchairs, in which it is possible to drown, the spleen has almost passed. To admit, I was surprised at reading these […]...
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31. “Small demon” of Sologub in short summary Ardalon Borisovich Peredonov, a teacher of literature in the local gymnasium, constantly felt himself the subject of special attention of women. Still would! State counselor, a man in juice, in fact, not married… After all, Barbara that… Barbarian in the case of which you can and poboku. Here is one thing – without it, perhaps, […]...
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33. “Peter the Great” by Tolstoy in short summary By the end of the XVII century. After the death of Emperor Fyodor Alekseevich, a struggle for power begins in Russia. Rebellion streltsy, instigated by the princess Sophia and her lover, ambitious prince Vasily Golitsyn. There were two tsars in Moscow-the youngest Ivan Alekseevich and Pyotr Alekseyevich, and above them the ruler of Sophia. “Everything […]...
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35. “Moscow-Petushki” by Erofeev in a short summary Venichka Erofeev travels from Moscow to the regional center near Moscow called Petushki. There lives a sweetheart hero, delightful and unique, to which he travels on Fridays, buying a bag of sweets “Cornflower” as a gift. Venichka Erofeev has already begun his wanderings. The day before, he had taken a glass of teeth, and then […]...
36. “Song of Hiawatha” Longfellow in short summary In the introduction, the author remembers the musician Navadagu, who once sang a song about Hiawatha in ancient times: “Of his wondrous birth, / About his great life: / How fasted and prayed / How did Hiawatha work, / That his people were happy / he went to the good and the truth. “ The […]...
37. “Rip Van Winkle” by Irving in short summary At the foot of the Kaathsky Mountains is an ancient village, founded by Dutch settlers in the earliest period of colonization. In ancient times, when this region was still a British province, there lived in it a good-natured fellow named Rip Van Winkle. All his neighbors loved him, but his wife was so quarrelsome that […]...
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40. “Ptolemeets” Benn in short summary The narration is from the first person. The author and the narrator, who owns the Lotus Beauty Institute, paints a few strokes of the picture of Berlin during the occupation, in the cold winter of 1947: the population suffers from hunger, the surviving furniture goes on to kindle, the trade has stopped, no one pays […]...