“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

A brief narrative of AP Platonov’s story “Yushka”

For a long time, in ancient times, an old man lived in the same city. He worked in a smithy near the Moscow road foreman at the main blacksmith, because he did not see

Summary Aragon L

Louis Aragon was born on October 3, 1897 in Paris. He was the illegitimate son of Margarita Tuk, who recorded him as the adoptive son of his mother and stepfather, politician Andrie. Subsequently, Louis

Summary of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

G. Beecher-Stowe Uncle Tom’s hut The novel takes place in the early 1850s. in USA. He opens the conversation with the “good” planter Shelby with slave-dealer Gayley, whom he wants to sell his best

Summary of Dickens’s “Dombey and the Son”

The action takes place in the middle of the XIX century. In one of the ordinary London nights in the life of Mr. Dombey, the greatest event is happening – his son is born.

Summary “Overcoat”

The story “Overcoat” was first published in 1843. She talks about the life of a “little man” in society. He is indifferent to everyone, but he genuinely loves his small post. Only one circumstance

Summary “White Poodle” by Kuprin

A small wandering troupe traveled around the Crimea: an organ-grinder Martyn Lodyzhkin with an old organ-grinder, a twelve-year-old boy Sergei and a white poodle Artaud. On that day the artists were unlucky. They went

“The Boot of the God of Erlan” by Lin Mencu in summary

It is said that once there was a concubine named Han Yuqiao at the palace to the sovereign. But the beauty of Anfei reigned supreme in the heart of the lord. So Yuqiao became

“Fro” Platonov in brief summary

The main heroine of the work is a twenty-year-old girl Frosya, daughter of a railwayman. Her husband left far and long. Frosya is very sad about him, life loses all meaning for her, she

Summary Other’s face

Kobo Abe Another person’s face The researcher, the head of the laboratory at the Institute of High-Molecular Chemistry, burned his face with liquid oxygen during the experiment, causing his whole face to become scarred.
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