“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 Casanova, sleeps, dropping female names from her lips. His restless sleep is interrupted by hussar Henri, at first impression – a … Read more

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 chose a pseudonym of Aragon for the name of the Spanish historical region. Since 1915 he studied at the Medical Faculty … Read more

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 nigger to Uncle Tom in payment of debts. Speaking about humanism, understood in a very peculiar way, Gayley expresses the point … Read more

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. Henceforth his firm (one of the largest in the City!), In whose management he sees the meaning of his life, will … Read more

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 pulls him out of the habitual way of life: buying a new overcoat. According to Belinsky, the story “The Overcoat” became … Read more

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 from dacha to dacha, they went around the whole village, but they could not earn anything. At the last dacha with … Read more

“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 even throws the railway communication and signaling courses. Frosya’s father, Nefed Stepanovich, retired by age, but continues to miss his job. … Read more

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. The wounds do not heal in any way, and he always walks with a bandaged face. He reflects on the fact … Read more