Summary Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer An experimental field on which a paradoxical and contradictory trend of one human life unfolds-the life of an indigent American in Paris at the turn of the 1920s-1930s-becomes, in
Summary of Ulysses
James Joyce Ulysses The novel tells of one day of June 16, 1904, from the life of the Lipold Bloom, a Dublin Jew of thirty-eight years, and Stephen Dedal, twenty-two. Three parts of a
Summary “Fight for fire”
The prehistoric tribe of Ulamaras has a terrible fate: their fire, which was kept in three special cells, and whose life was supported by four women and two men day and night, perished! Fire
M. Yursenar’s “Philosopher’s Stone” in brief summary
1529 year. On the crossroads of two roads there are cousins. Henri Maximilian, the son of the rich merchant Henri-Just Ligr, sixteen years old: he raves Plutarch and piously believes that he will be
“Sealed Angel” Leskov in brief summary
Several travelers are hiding in the inn from the weather. One of them states that “every saved man… the angel guides,” and the angel himself led him. The next story he says, kneeling, because
Summary The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch The Black Prince The text of Bradley Pearson’s book The Black Prince, or the Feast of Love is framed by the foreword and afterword of the publisher, from which it follows that
“Prince and the beggar” Twain in summary
London, the middle of the XVI century. On the same day, two boys are born – Tom, the son of the thief John Kenti, huddling in the stinking cul-de-sac Yard Courtyard, and Edward, heir
Summary Therese Desqueira
Francois Moriak Theresa Desqueira Theresa Deskairu leaves the courtroom. She was accused of attempting to poison her husband, but with the efforts of her relatives the case was stopped “for lack of corpus delicti.”
“Demophonte” Metastasis in summary
Dircea begs her father Matius not to rebel against the law, which requires the annual sacrifice of the young virgin of the noble family to Apollo. The name of the victim determines the lot.
Summary of the “World of Aristophanes”
Riders are not just horsemen: it was called in Athens a whole class – those who had enough money to keep the fighting horse. They were wealthy people, they had small estates outside the