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1. “Akutagava’s Web” in brief summary One morning, Buddha wandered alone along the shore of a paradise pond. He stopped in thought and suddenly saw everything that was happening on the bottom of the Lotus Pond, reaching to the very depths of the underworld. A lot of sinners were crowding down there. The Buddha’s eyes fell on one of them. His […]...
2. Buddhist Parable “Mustard seed” Once Buddha met an elderly woman. She was crying bitterly – her life was not easy. The woman asked the Buddha to help her. “Your life is hardly different from that of other people,” the Buddha replied. “But I will help you get rid of sadness.” To do this, I need a mustard seed, which […]...
3. Summary “Cinnamon Basket” A young trader Wang Wen-yun, frightened of the misfortune predicted to him, bids farewell to his father, his wife and leaves for a hundred days to trade peddling. Wang’s business is going well. On the way to Sizhou, he stops at the inn, where he dreams that he is killed by a robber. Indeed, the […]...
4. Summary “The Virgin Mary’s Walking by Flour” The holy Mother of God wanted to pray to God, so that the archangel Michael told her about the heavenly and earthly flour. Then Michael came down from heaven and with him four hundred angels. The Virgin and the Archangel greeted each other. Archangel Michael said that not to list all the pains that exist. […]...
5. Faith – the path to salvation “Divine Comedy” – the main work of Dante, brought him immortality. Dante called his poem “comedy”, because mournful at the beginning, it ends with a joyous ending. In the time when Dante lived, wars were going on in Italy. Although Dante was a believer, he lost faith in kindness and nobility during these wars. This […]...
6. Summary of the Life of the Buddha Ashvaghosha Buddha’s Life A poem in 28 songs, from the Sanskrit original of which only the first thirteen and a half have survived, and the rest have come in Tibetan and Chinese transpositions King Shuddhodana of the Shakya family who lives in the city of Kapilavastu in the foothills of the Himalayas, the son of […]...
7. Summary “The Divine Comedy” by Dante At the age of thirty-five, the night of Good Friday 1300, Dante is lost in a dark forest and very frightened by it. He sees the sun-drenched mountains and tries to climb them, but the leopard, the lion and the wolf prevent it. Dante is forced to return to the forest. There he meets the […]...
8. The Summary of Hellfire R. Akutagawa The Flour of Hell The lady, who served at the court of his lordship Horikawa, tells the story of the writing of the screens “Flour of Hell.” His lordship was a mighty and magnanimous ruler, therefore all the inhabitants of the capital revered him as a living Buddha. There were even rumors that […]...
9. “Life of Buddha” Ashvaghoshi in brief summary The poem in 28 songs, from the Sanskrit original of which only the first thirteen and a half have survived, and the rest have survived in the Tibetan and Chinese transcriptions King Shuddhodana of the Shakya family who lives in the city of Kapilavastu in the foothills of the Himalayas, the son of Siddhartha is […]...
10. “Flour of hell” Akutagawa in brief summary The lady, who served at the court of his lordship Horikawa, tells the story of the writing of the screens “Flour of Hell.” His lordship was a mighty and magnanimous ruler, therefore all the inhabitants of the capital revered him as a living Buddha. There were even rumors that when once the oxen, harnessed to […]...
11. “Divine Comedy” Dante – a reflection of the writer’s ideas about the world What is mature – I’ll tell you everything, And the story is not in vain. Dante He saw the picture of God’s judgment, He visited purgatory and, knowing the Way to Paradise, reached this paradise, To say the truth, coming back here… So said another great man of the Renaissance – the painter, architect, sculptor, […]...
12. “Fiest” Seneca in brief summary The heroes of this tragedy are two evil czars from the city of Argos, Atreus and Fiest. The son of this Atreus was the famous leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War Agamemnon – the one killed by his wife Clytemnestra, and her son, Orestes, killed her for this. When the Greeks asked what […]...
13. Summary “Fiest” The heroes of this tragedy are two evil czars from the city of Argos, Atreus and Fiest. The son of this Atreus was the famous leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War Agamemnon – the one killed by his wife Clytemnestra, and her son, Orestes, killed her for this (and Aeschylus wrote about this […]...
14. Summary of Fiestas Seneca LA Seneca Fiest The heroes of this tragedy are two evil czars from the city of Argos, Atreus and Fiest. The son of this Atreus was the famous leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War, Agamemnon, the one killed by his wife Clytemnestra, and her son, Orestes, killed her for this (and Aeschylus wrote […]...
15. “In more often” Akutagawa in brief summary Novella is a different version of the same event, expressed by different people. The woodcutter told during the interrogation that he had found the corpse of a man in a grove under a mountain, where bamboo grows interspersed with young cryptomeria. The man was lying on his back, he had a light blue suikan, in […]...
16. Summary “A Tale of Ruff Yershovich, Son of Schetinnikov” In one of the cities of the Rostov district there is a court. Boyarin Sturgeon, the governor of the Khvalyn sea Som and the ship muzhiks – Sudak and Pike-trepetuha look at the petition on Yersha, which was made up by peasants from the Rostov district, the fish Bream and Chub. They accuse Ersh that […]...
17. Summary The Adventures of Bibigon KI Chukovsky Adventures Bibigona On the adventures of a tiny lilliput, a boy with a finger, whose name is Bibigon. Narration on behalf of the author – then prose (shortly), then poetry. The enemy of Bibigon is a turkey. The fairy tale is divided into adventure parts: Bibigon and Brundulyak (turkey), Bibigon and galosh, Bibigon […]...
18. Summary In more often R. Akutagawa In more often The story of the Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunoske is considered the best in the world story ever written. Several people talk about the murder, everything is different, and it is difficult for the reader to establish what really happened in the thicket of the forest and in the wilds of […]...
19. Summary Time Machine Herbert Wells Herbert Wells Time Machine The heroes of the novel are mostly not named by their names. Among the listeners of the Traveler’s story are the Psychologist, A very young man, the Provincial Mayor, the Doctor and others. They are present at the return of the Traveler from the future, which appears in front of his […]...
20. Summary: The Battle of the Mag Thuirred On the northern islands lived the Tribes of the Goddess Danu, who comprehended magic, charms and secret knowledge. They possessed four greatest treasures: Lug’s spear, Nuad’s sword, Dagda’s cauldron, and the stone of Lia Fall, who screamed under everyone who was destined to rule Ireland. The tribes of the Goddess sailed on a multitude of […]...
21. Summary “The Time Machine” by Wales The heroes of the novel are mostly not named by their names. Among the listeners of the Traveler’s story are the Psychologist, A very young man, the Provincial Mayor, the Doctor and others. They are present at the return of the Traveler from the future, which appears in front of his guests not in the […]...
22. “Adventures of Bibigon” Chukovsky in brief On the adventures of a tiny lilliput, a boy with a finger, whose name is Bibigon. Narration on behalf of the author – then prose, then poetry. The enemy of Bibigon is a turkey. The fairy tale is divided into adventure parts: Bibigon and Brundulyak, Bibigon and galosh, Bibigon and spider, Bibigon and crow, Bibigon […]...
23. Buddhist Parable “The Blind and the Elephant” A few students turned to the Buddha: “Master, here lives a lot of wandering hermits, who are constantly arguing with each other Some say that the soul is immortal, others – that it dies with the body Who is right..?” The Buddha answered: “Once upon a time the prince lived, he called a servant and […]...
24. Composition on the theme “Lake Baikal” Baikal is a miracle of nature. And now I’ll tell you why. Each person is endowed with the ability to admire nature. Perhaps there are few things in our everyday life that could instantly transform our way of thinking or the current mood. Only nature can do it. Even without realizing the impact that nature […]...
25. My village You can have a good time in the countryside. I really love my village. In the village I often go to the forest, to the river or the lake. The best place in my village is the forest lake. It is here that you can relax, sunbathe, and swim. And he’s fishing here, it’s a […]...
26. Summary “Brothers Robbers” by Pushkin Like a pack of ravens “on piles of smoldering bones,” a gang of bandits flies to the Volga. Here people of different “tribes, dialects, states” – fugitives from the Don, long-haired Jewish outcasts, steppe inhabitants, gypsies, Finns. Danger, blood, debauchery, deceit – The essence of the terrible family ties. There comes a late night. The […]...
27. Summary of the story of V. P. Astafiev “Vasyutkino Lake” You can not find this lake on the map. It is small, but memorable, Vasyutkino. Far from every lake has its own name, because our Motherland is immense and immense. Fishermen from the brigade Vasyutkin’s father – Grigory Afanasevich Shadrin – quite dejected. Because of the frequent autumn rains the fish began to be poorly […]...
28. Summary of “Inferno” The hottest place in hell is destined for those who remain neutral during a moral crisis. All works of art and literature, as well as scientific data and historical events, mentioned in this book, are real. The consortium is a private organization with offices in seven countries. Its name has been changed for security reasons […]...
29. The “Time Machine” of Wells in brief The heroes of the novel are mostly not named by their names. Among the listeners of the Traveler’s story are the Psychologist, A very young man, the Provincial Mayor, the Doctor and others. They are present at the return of the Traveler from the future, which appears in front of his guests not in the […]...
30. Painting by VM Vasnetsov “Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich Grozny” Once, when we were in fifth grade, I saw a portrait of Ivan the Terrible standing on the stand in the study of literature. I felt somehow uneasy, but to be honest – even scary. By that time I knew Vasnetsovskaya “Alyonushka”, “Carpet-plane”, “Three princesses of the underworld” and, of course, “Bogatyrs”. At the stand […]...
31. “Frogs” by Aristophanes in brief There were three famous writers of tragedies in Athens: the elder – Aeschylus, the middle one – Sophocles and the younger – Euripides. Aeschylus was mighty and majestic, Sophocles clear and harmonious, Euripides tense and paradoxical. Once having looked, the Athenian viewers could not forget how Fedra was tormented by his passion for stepchild for […]...
32. Strindberg’s “Sonata of the Ghosts” in brief The old man is sitting in the wheelchair next to the billboard. He sees the Student talking to the Milkmaid and telling her that on the eve of rescuing people from the rubble of the collapsed building. The old man hears the Student’s words, but does not see the Milkmaid, for she is a vision. […]...
33. Saga “The Battle of the Magyour” in brief On the northern islands lived the Tribes of the Goddess Danu, who comprehended magic, charms and secret knowledge. They possessed four greatest treasures: Lug’s spear, Nuad’s sword, Dagda’s cauldron, and the stone of Lia Fall, who screamed under everyone who was destined to rule Ireland. The tribes of the Goddess sailed on a multitude of […]...
34. Summary of “Silver” Doyle Sherlock Holmes seeks help from Colonel Ross, who kidnapped a stallion named Silver, the first favorite of the races for the Wessex Cup. Silver coach John Straker was found dead. The great detective arrives at the crime scene. Since the last time Silver took all the prizes at the races, there are a lot of […]...
35. “Divine Comedy” Dante Alighieri as a monument to the beloved, the power of love “Divine Comedy” Dante Alighieri, of course, is a monument to the beloved and the power of love, since almost all of his works Dante dedicated to the girl, who was unrequitedly in love. Beatrice Portinari he saw several times, but she became for him not only an ideal, but also something sublime, before which he […]...
36. Kerouac’s “Daggers of Dhamma” in summary The work contains autobiographical details, the narration is conducted from the first person. The narrator, Rey Smith, a young man from the beatnik generation, travels in America by passing cars and in freight trains, often stays in the open air and lives by casual earnings, contented with the few that Heaven and the Dharma Law […]...
37. Summary of the Dharma Rogue Jack Kerouac The Dharma Rogue The work contains autobiographical details, the narration is from the first person. The narrator, Rey Smith, a young man from the beatnik generation, travels in America by passing cars and in freight trains, often stays in the open air and lives by casual earnings, contented with the few that Heaven […]...
38. Summary of “The Wanderer and the Sorcerer” A young rake and a mote, having neglected the affairs of the family, did not know how to keep in a boggling expenditure. He let all his possessions go in the wind, and none of his relatives wanted to shelter him. Hungry, he hung around the city, complaining and moaning. Suddenly an unknown old man […]...
39. “Guy and Wizard” by Li Fuyang in summary A young rake and a mote, having neglected the affairs of the family, did not know how to keep in a boggling expenditure. He let all his possessions go in the wind, and none of his relatives wanted to shelter him. Hungry, he hung around the city, complaining and moaning. Suddenly an unknown old man […]...
40. Summary of “The Fires” of Andersen Returning home, the soldier met a sorceress. She sent him to the hollow where, in three rooms of three chests guarded by terrible dogs, he could collect copper coins, silver and gold, having first planted the dogs on the old woman’s checkered apron. For this she asked me to bring her a flint located there. […]...