Do we need literature lessons at school, in 5 minutes we remember twenty literary masterpieces?

The classics of literature filled the libraries with thick volumes, which modern schoolchildren and students for the most part lack leisure. Therefore, websites with brief expositions of literary masterpieces flourish on the Internet. I read half a page, told the teacher, and I'm done. But Twitter, with its 140-character limit, went even further. There was no longer a genre of “mini”, but microretelling, fit in 1-2 sentences. This is both an exercise in wit, and a kind of game. Read a very brief summary of the books and try to find them out. If not, you will find answers at the end of the article.



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1. The cake fools everyone except the fox. The attempt to fool and it ends for the main character tragically.
2. A young man wanted to become a millionaire. He became one, but then he was disappointed and decided to go to the office.
3. They found a letter bottle in the sea and decided to go to America. There's another weirdo netting butterflies all the way.
   
   
   
4. A man loves a married woman. She leads him by the nose and goes back to her husband. Bottom line: all women are evil.
5. The elderly couple could not cope with the harvest. To solve the problem helped to attract pets to work.
6. Did you hear the garden estate sell? It's a pity the garden estate was sold.
7. The portrait ages, but the man does not. The man pounces on the portrait. The portrait is alive, but the man is not.
8. One programmer went on vacation and instead chatted with Baba Yaga and got a job at a magical institute.
9. The main character visits the headmaster in late evenings to discuss the biography of the greatest villain of our time.
10. She loves him, but he rejects her. He falls in love with her and she is married. Not fate.
11. The three friends did not know much about water tourism. But we went on a trip along the river, and even took the dog with him.
12. One clever man of books read and went mad. He began to cosplay the knight, and everyone laughed at him.
    
    
    
13. The killer has a conscience. He confesses. He got better in prison.
14. One boy did not want to learn literacy, invested in a financial pyramid and got into the theater. In the end, everyone was fine.
15. One dog was lost and taken to the circus. And the audience recognized the dog and took home.
16. He turned into a beetle and was thrown apples for it.
17. The aliens wanted to conquer the Earth. Shot, fired from lasers, and then there were microbes and they were gone.
18. One writer ate cacti and then became a wizard.
19. A girl hates a rich aristocrat. No, wait, he doesn't.
20. One professor transplanted human brains into a dog and then tortured him to pick them out again.

Answers.

1. "Kolobok", a Russian folk tale
2. The Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov
3. The Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne
4. The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
   
   
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5. "Repka", a Russian folk tale
6. “The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov
7. Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
8. Monday Begins on Saturday by the Strugatsky Brothers
9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
   
   
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10. “Eugene Onegin”, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
    
    
    
11. Three in a Boat, Not Counting a Dog by Jerome Klark
12. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
13. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
14. The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino by Alexey Tolstoy
15. "Kashtanka," Anton Chekhov
16. "The Transformation," Franz Kafka
17. War of the Worlds, by Herbert Wells
    
    
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18. The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda
19. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
20. The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov

I hope you can find out most of the books from the short description. And if not, don't be upset! After all, it is not every day that you get to remember the plots of 20 favorite works in 5 minutes!

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