“The Last Sheet” by O. Henry in Brief Contents

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1. Summary Last sheet O. Henry The Last Sheet 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 […]...
2. Summary of “Listok” Two young artists, rented an apartment on the top floor in the Greenwich Village, in New York. The girls were called Sue and Johnsy. In one autumn month, namely in November, Johnsy becomes ill, the doctor discovers her pneumonia and says that if the girl wants to stay alive, she will become healthy. But the […]...
3. Questions and answers to the work of O. Henry What is remarkable about the life of the writer O. Henry? The real name of this American writer is William Sidney Porter. He lived a short life – only forty-eight years. But it was full of events, which could be enough for two lives. His mother, he did not remember, and his father gave the […]...
4. 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 […]...
5. Composition of rain The weather began to spoil after lunch, most likely, it will rain. Dark clouds are slowly coming from the east. But the wind increases, and in twenty minutes they close the sun. Begin to drip cold drops, with each second they become more and more. Rain is coming. People rejoice in the rain after hot […]...
6. “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 […]...
7. “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 […]...
8. Summary Europeans Henry James Henry James Europeans Brother and sister – Felix Young and Baroness Eugenia Munster – for the first time in their life come to their mother’s homeland in America. They grew up in Europe, feel Europeans and anxiously await a meeting with the Wentworth family – uncles, cousins ​​and cousins. Felix is ​​the first to get […]...
9. “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 […]...
10. Painting by Vlasenko “On the Road” Autumn is a favorite of many of us at times. We so like golden trees, which shimmer with all sorts of warm colors. But, autumn is not always so beautiful and fabulous. There comes a time when all the foliage is falling and the trees are exposed. On the street, dampness and slush after frequent, […]...
11. “Henry IV” Pirandello in short summary The action takes place in a secluded villa in rural Umbria at the beginning of the 20th century. The room reproduces the decoration of the throne room of Henry IV, but to the right and left of the throne – two large modern portraits, one of which depicts a man in the costume of Henry […]...
12. Summary Henry IV Pirandello L. Pirandello Henry IV The action takes place in a secluded villa in rural Umbria at the beginning of the 20th century. The room reproduces the decoration of the throne room of Henry IV, but to the right and left of the throne – two large modern portraits, one of which depicts a man in […]...
13. “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 […]...
14. Summary Contents G. H. Andersen Ognivo 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 […]...
15. “Trust that burst” O. Henry in summary Once the heroes of the cycle “Noble crook” Jeff Peters and Andy Tucker, who, according to Peters, “each dollar in the hand of another… perceived as a personal insult, if he could not perceive it as a prey,” returned from Mexico after another successful scam and stopped in a Texas settlement called the Bird City, […]...
16. 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, […]...
17. “The relationship between people” composition People have always striven for beauty. This involved not only the material aspects of life, for example, a beautiful home, vehicles or ornaments, but also aspects of relations between people. It is unlikely that there is such a person in the world who never wanted to help someone who needs help, free of charge from […]...
18. “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 […]...
19. “Peaches” O. Henry in summary Honeymoon in full swing. Little McGarry, a welterweight boxer who does not know himself in the ring, is blissful. He is ready to fulfill any desire of his young wife. And when she cooed: “Darling, I would eat a peach,” he gets up and follows the peaches. But the Italian at the corner of the […]...
20. 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 […]...
21. “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 […]...
22. “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 […]...
23. 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 […]...
24. “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 […]...
25. “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 […]...
26. Painting by Gerasimov “After the Rain” The picture of A. M. Gerasimov “After the Rain” is one of the artist’s best works. She depicts a wet terrace and a garden corner on a summer warm day. Most recently it was raining heavily. He wet all around. The floor, the benches, the railing, the table, the foliage of the trees and the […]...
27. “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 […]...
28. 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 […]...
29. Summary Chair of Philanthromathematics O. Henry O. Henry Department of Philanthropology After another successful scam, Peters and Tucker decide to become philanthropists. Once in the provincial town of Floresville, they, with the consent of local residents, open the “World University” there, and they themselves become his trustees. On the first of September, the newly-opened educational institution hospitably opens the doors to […]...
30. “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 […]...
31. “Department of Philanthropic Mathematics” O. Henry in summary After another successful scam, Peters and Tucker decide to become philanthropists. Once in the provincial town of Floresville, they, with the consent of local residents, open the “World University” there, and they themselves become his trustees. On the first of September, the newly-opened educational institution hospitably opens the doors to students from five states, and […]...
32. Summary Green Henry Gottfried Keller Green Henry The action takes place at the beginning of the last century in Switzerland. One fine day in the village of Glattfelden, which is located somewhere in the north of Switzerland, there is a handsome and beautiful stranger dressed in a green frock coat. This is Master Leia. Once upon a time […]...
33. “Green Henry” Keller in summary The action takes place at the beginning of the last century in Switzerland. One fine day in the village of Glattfelden, which is located somewhere in the north of Switzerland, there is a handsome and beautiful stranger dressed in a green frock coat. This is Master Leia. Once upon a time he left his native […]...
34. Brief History of Henry Esmond W. M. Thackeray History of Henry Esmond Events take place in England at the very beginning of the 18th century, during the reign of Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart dynasty. Anna does not have children, and therefore after her death, the throne must go to representatives of another dynasty – Hanover. However, the […]...
35. 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 […]...
36. Summary “Henry IV” After false reports of victory, Earl of Northumberland finally learns that his son Hotsper was killed in the Battle of Shrewsbury and that the Royal Army, led by the second son of King John Lancaster and Earl Westmoreland, is heading towards him. The Earl decides to unite his troops with the forces of the rebellious […]...
37. “The History of Henry Esmond” by Thackeray in brief summary Events take place in England at the very beginning of the eighteenth century, during the reign of Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart dynasty. Anna does not have children, and therefore after her death, the throne must go to representatives of another dynasty – Hanover. However, the court party and the military circles want […]...
38. 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 […]...
39. “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 […]...
40. Summary of “The Gifts of the Magi” O. Henry The story “Gifts of the Magi” was written in 1906. Since then, just over a hundred years have passed. During this time, language, life, culture, the Revolution, the formation and disintegration of the USSR changed. With certainty, we can say that Henry used several unknown words for us. Therefore, in order not to find myself […]...