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1. Andersen’s “Fog” in a brief summary Returning home, the soldier met a sorceress. So sent him to a hollow where in 3 rooms of 3 chests guarded by terrible dogs, he could collect copper coins, silver and gold, having first planted dogs on the old woman’s checkered apron. For this she asked me to bring her a flint located there. After […]...
2. Summary of “The Fires” of Andersen Returning home, the soldier met a sorceress. She sent him to the hollow where, in three rooms of three chests guarded by terrible dogs, he could collect copper coins, silver and gold, having first planted the dogs on the old woman’s checkered apron. For this she asked me to bring her a flint located there. […]...
3. Summary “It’s hard to be afraid of happiness and happiness” The Old Woodcutter cuts wood in the woods and always remembers grief and wickedness. His niece Nastya brings him dinner. The woodcutter rebukes the girl that she is waiting for her beloved, soldier Ivan Tarabanov, who is naked as a falcon, but rejects the rich miller. The woodcutter continues to cut down the forest, remembering […]...
4. “Another Light, or State and Empire of the Moon” by Bergerac in Brief Contents At nine in the evening the author and four of his friends returned from the same house in the vicinity of Paris. A full moon shone in the sky, attracting the gaze of the revelers and arousing wit already sharpened on the pavement stones. One suggested that this is a heavenly dormer window, from which […]...
5. Summary “Wild swans” by Andersen At the beginning of the fairy tale, we get to know eleven of the royal princes and the little princess, who are the children of the king. The king’s wife died, and he married a new woman. My stepmother did not like her stepchildren and stepdaughter very much. With the help of witchcraft, her stepmother […]...
6. Summary “Twelve Months” by Marshak In the winter forest the wolf talks with a crow, the squirrels play with a hare in the burners. They are seen by the stepdaughter, who came to the forest for brushwood and firewood (she was sent by her cruel stepmother). The stepdaughter meets the Soldier in the forest, tells him about the game of […]...
7. “Amazing Travels of Baron Munchausen” by Burger in Brief Contents Amazing journeys on land and sea, military campaigns and fun adventures of Baron von Munchausen, about which he usually tells for a bottle in the circle of his friends The time of the adventures described in the book of Baron Munchausen – the end of the XVIII century., During the plot the main character is […]...
8. “Twelve Months” of Marshak in brief summary In the winter forest the wolf talks with a crow, the squirrels play with a hare in the burners. They are seen by the stepdaughter, who came to the forest for brushwood and firewood. The stepdaughter meets the Soldier in the forest, tells him about the game of animals. He explains that every miracle happens […]...
9. Summary Twelve Months S. Ya. Marshak S. Ya. Marshak Twelve months In the winter forest, a wolf talks to a crow, whites play with a hare in a burner. They are seen by the stepdaughter, who came to the forest for brushwood and firewood (she was sent by her cruel stepmother). The stepdaughter meets the Soldier in the forest, tells him […]...
10. Summary “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights” In the work of Alexander Pushkin, there is a period called the Boldin Autumn (1833). It was during this period that “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights” was written. According to the plot, Pushkin’s fairy tale resembles the classic European fairy tale “Snow White”. However, “The Tale of the Dead Princess […]...
11. “The Last Sheet” by O. Henry in Brief Contents Two young artists, Sue and Johnsy, rent an apartment on the top floor of a house in New York’s Greenwich Village, where artists have long settled. In November, Johnsy becomes pneumonia. The verdict of the doctor is disappointing: “She has one chance out of ten, and if she wants to live herself.” But Johnsy just […]...
12. Summary of “Elisha” The Tsar leaves, and during his absence the Tsarina had a daughter. But the queen dies, as soon as her husband returns. The king grieves for a long time, but a year passes, and a new queen appears in the palace. This woman is very beautiful, but her temper is heavy: she is envious, cruel […]...
13. “The Amazing Story of Peter Shlemil” by Chamisso in Brief Contents In 1813, Adelbert von Chamisso fell into the hands of a notebook – a diary of his friend, Peter Schlemel. He was brought early in the morning by a strange man with a long gray beard, dressed in a worn black Hungarian. Here is its content. After a long voyage, I arrived in Hamburg with […]...
14. Summary of Contents Return AP Platonov Return After serving the whole war, the Guards Captain Alexei Alekseyevich Ivanov departs from the army for demobilization. At the station, long waiting for the train, he gets acquainted with the girl Masha, the daughter of the spaceman, who served in the dining room of their part. They travel together for two days, […]...
15. Summary “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights” by Pushkin The Tsar leaves, and during his absence the Tsarina had a daughter. But the queen dies, as soon as her husband returns. The king grieves for a long time, but a year passes, and a new queen appears in the palace. This woman is very beautiful, but her temper is heavy: she is envious, cruel […]...
16. Summary “Sweet porridge” A few years ago, the king and the queen lived, and every day they said: -Oh, if we had a child! But they did not have any children and were not. One day it happened that the queen was sitting in a bath and a frog came out of the water and told her: – […]...
17. Summary “The Sleeping Princess” Tsar Matvey and the queen had no children. They bitterly worried about this. Once the queen went to the brook and wept bitterly. Suddenly, he crawled out and said that the princess would soon have a daughter. And it happened. The daughter was born a beauty, the tsar convened a feast in joys and invited […]...
18. The “Wood Trail” of Stifter in Brief Contents Tiburius Knight was a great crank. There were several reasons for this. First, his father was an eccentric. Secondly, his mother also had strangeness, the main of which was excessive care for his son’s health. His tutor had such a strong desire for order, that the boy hated all learning. The rich uncle also took […]...
19. “Pretty Pictures” by S. de Beauvoir in Brief Contents Laurence, a beautiful young woman, at first glance has everything you need for happiness: a loving husband, two daughters, an interesting job, wealth, parents, friends. But Lorana, not looking at all this well-being, does not feel happy. She notices emptiness, worthlessness of secular conversations about everything and about anything, sees all the falsity of the […]...
20. Summary “The Princess and the Pea” by Andersen The story begins with the fact that a certain prince for a long time could not find a suitable girl for himself, namely, a real princess. One day, when he was quite desperate, a storm broke out, and a drenched stranger knocked at the palace, claiming that she was a real princess. The Queen Mother […]...
21. “Selective Affinity” of Goethe in Brief Contents In the ancient castle on the shore of the lake live a baron and a baroness. Fortunately, there seems to be no limit, especially since they found it already in adulthood. Edward loved Charlotte from his youth, but he had to marry a wealthy woman, who was much older than him, under the compulsion of […]...
22. “Gone with the Wind” by M. Mitchell in Brief Contents April 1861 Plantation Tara, stretching twenty-five miles from Atlanta, Georgia. Twins Tarlton, Stewart and Brent, in love with the charming daughter of the owner of Tara, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, give her two news. First, the war between the North and the South is about to begin. Secondly, Ashley Wilkes marries Melanie Hamilton, which will be announced […]...
23. “The Baron on the Tree” Calvino in Brief Contents The incredible events of this novel, combining features and essays, and utopias, and philosophical satirical stories, occur at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His hero, Baron Cosimo di Rondo, at the age of twelve, protesting against the boiled snails served every day for dinner, climbs onto a tree and decides to spend […]...
24. “The Tale of Tsar Berendey” by Zhukovsky in brief Once upon a time there was Tsar Berendey, he was married for three years, but there were no children. The Tsar somehow inspected his state, said goodbye to the queen and spent eight months in absence. The ninth month was running out when he approached the capital and decided to rest. I wanted to drink, […]...
25. The Life of Galileo by Brecht in Brief Contents I Galileo demonstrates the boy Andrea Sarti, the son of his housekeeper and future student, on simple examples of the Copernican model of the solar system. Galileo says that the time comes for new knowledge, the time for revising all the old truths and the birth of new ones. The Ptolemaic system regarded the earth […]...
26. “Soprano Settler, or Dangers of the City Life” of Breton in Brief Contents Before the reader – “a recent story, compiled on the basis of genuine letters of its participants.” Young Edmond R ***, the son of a large-scale well-to-do peasant, is taken to the city and placed as pupils to the artist, Mr. Parangon. The shyness of the young villager is called in the city untidy, his […]...
27. Summary “The White Heron” by Teleshov One of the visiting princes fell in love with the daughter of the king – Isolde. The father willingly gave his consent to the marriage of his daughter. The kingdom began to prepare for the wedding of the princess. Isolde sincerely loved her native land, and wanted her wedding attire to be as white as […]...
28. A Tale of Tsar Berendey VA Zhukovsky The Tale of Tsar Berendeye Once upon a time there was Tsar Berendey, he was married for three years, but there were no children. The Tsar somehow inspected his state, said goodbye to the queen and spent eight months in absence. The ninth month was running out when he approached the capital and […]...
29. Borges’s “World History of Bastards” in Brief Contents In the cycle “World history of baseness” collected stories about the lives of murderers, scammers, pirates. Among them, “Hakim of Merv, a masked dyer”, Hakim, who was subsequently nicknamed the Prophet Under the Veil, was born in 736 of the Cross in the dying city of Merv on the edge of the desert. The brother […]...
30. Summary Lolita Vladimir NabokovPeresis of the presentation of the summary of the contents of the works by chapters V. V. Nabokov Lolita Humbert Humbert, a thirty-seven-year-old lecturer in French literature, has an unusual inclination for nymphets, as he calls them – charming girls from nine to fourteen. A long childhood impression gave him this clandestine experience, which warded off more mature women. The action of the confessional novel written by Humberts in prison […]...
31. Brief contents of the poem by N. Gogol “Dead Souls” Volume One The proposed story, as will become clear from the following, occurred somewhat shortly after the “glorious expulsion of the French.” In the provincial town of NN comes the college counselor Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and settles in the hotel. He makes a lot of questions to the tavern servant – both regarding the owner […]...
32. “The Cleaved Skies” by K. Wolf in Brief Contents The action takes place in 1960-1961. in the GDR. The main character, Rita Seidel, a student who worked during the vacations at the car building plant, lies in the hospital after she almost fell under the carriages that were maneuvering on the tracks. Later it turns out that this was an attempt at suicide. In […]...
33. “The Years of the Teaching of Wilhelm Meister” Goethe in Brief Contents We meet a young hero when they have two passions – to the theater and Mariana, and he is full of happy enthusiasm and enthusiastic plans. His father, a respectable burgher, created his initial capital by selling a collection of father’s paintings, and then made his fortune a successful trade, now he wants his son […]...
34. The contents of the Scarecrow Zheleznikov Vladimir Zheleznikov Scarecrow In the provincial school somewhere between Kaluga and Serpukhov comes a new student Lena Bessoltseva. She settles in the house of her grandfather, Nikolai Nikolayevich, a former military man who collects paintings for the purpose of arranging a picture gallery in his house. In town his grandfather is disliked for his closed […]...
35. Summary “The Princess of Cleves” Lafayette The novel takes place in the middle of the 16th century. Madame de Chartres, for many years after her husband’s death, lived away from the court, and her daughter comes to Paris. Mademoiselle de Chartres goes to the jeweler to choose jewelry. There she accidentally meets the Prince of Cleves, the second son of the […]...
36. “The Sorrows of the Young Werther” by Goethe in Brief Contents It is this genre, characteristic of the literature of the 18th century, that Goethe chooses for his work, and the action takes place in one of the small German towns in the late 18th century. The novel consists of two parts – these are the letters of Werther himself and additions to them under the […]...
37. Summary “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by Hoffmann December 24, the house of the Stahlbaum Advisor of Medicine. Everyone is getting ready for Christmas, and the children – Fritz and Marie – are guessing what this time they will be presented as a gift by an inventor and godfather, a senior court adviser Drosselmeyer, who often repaired watches in the house of Stalbaums. […]...
38. “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” Hoffmann in brief December 24, the house of the Stahlbaum Advisor of Medicine. Everyone is getting ready for Christmas, and the children – Fritz and Marie – are guessing what this time they will be presented as a gift by an inventor and godfather, a senior court adviser Drosselmeyer, who often repaired watches in the house of Stalbaums. […]...
39. Biography Andersen Hans Christian (1805-75), a Danish writer. The glory of the world brought fairy tales, which combine romance and realism, fantasy and humor, satirical beginning with irony. Based on folklore (“Fire”), imbued with humanism, lyricism and humor (“Steadfast Tin Soldier”, “Ugly Duckling”, “Little Mermaid”, “Snow Queen”), tales condemn social inequality, selfishness, self-interest, self-righteousness of the powerful (“The New […]...
40. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Garcia Marquez in Brief Contents The founders of the genus Buendía José Arcadio and Ursula were cousins ​​and sisters. Parents were afraid that they would give birth to a child with a pig’s tail. Ursula knows about the danger of incestuous marriage, and José Arcadio does not want to take into account such nonsense. Throughout one and a half years […]...