Summary “The Mysterious Island” Verna
March 1865 In the United States during the Civil War, five brave Northmen flee from the southerly Richmond in a balloon. A terrible storm throws out four of them to the shore of an
Summary Adolescence Leo Tolstoy
L. N. Tolstoy’s adolescence Immediately after arriving in Moscow, Nicholas feels the changes that have taken place with him. In his soul there is a place not only for his own feelings and experiences,
Summary Pushkin
Yu. N. Tynyanov Pushkin Sergey Lyubovitch Pushkin was born a son, whom he named in memory of his grandfather Alexander. After the christening in Pushkin’s house on German street in Moscow a modest “kurtag”
Summary Jean Cocteau Hell Machine
Jean Cocteau Hell Machine The play, based on the motifs of the myth about Edil, unfolds in ancient Greece. The Queen of Thebes of Jocasta, in order to prevent the oracle’s prediction that her
Summary Count of Monte Cristo Alexander Dumas
Alexander Dumas Graf Monte Cristo February 27, 1815 in Marseille from the next voyage returns three-masted ship “Pharaoh”. Captain LeClair was not destined to set foot on his native land: he died of fever
“Don Gil Green Pants” Molina in brief summary
Dona Juana in a men’s suit – green pants and a camisole – comes from his native Valladolid to Madrid. Quintana, her old faithful servant, accompanies her. He asks the lady why she left
Summary Uzeir Abdul Huseyn-oglu Hajibeyov. Ker-oglu
COVER-ANGLE Opera in five acts Libretto by M. S. Ordubadi and G. Ismailov Characters: Alah, the old man, the horse-driver at Gasan Khan Rovshen (later Ker-ogly), his son Nigar, beloved Rovshan Eyvaz, her brother
Kuprin’s “Duel” in a brief summary
Returning from the parade ground, Second Lieutenant Romashov thought: “Today I will not go: you can not bother people every day.” Every day he sat at the Nikolaevs until midnight, but on the evening
“In Search of the Lost Time” Proust in Brief Content
Towards Svanu Time eludes a brief moment between sleep and awakening. Within a few seconds, the narrator Marcel seems to have turned into what he read the day before. The mind is determined to
“Children of Captain Grant” is true in brief
On June 26, 1864, the crew of the Duncan yacht, owned by Lord Edward Glenarvan, the most prominent member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club and the wealthy Scottish landowner, catches the shark in