Summary “The second journey of Sinbad the Sailor”

Sinbad the Sailor was a brave and courageous traveler. During the second voyage Sinbad’s ship came to a beautiful island. On the ship, besides Sinbad, there were merchants. Everyone went out for a walk on the island. Sinbad sat down to rest and grab a bite. Unbeknownst, he fell asleep. When he woke up, he … Read more

“Maltese Jew” Marlo in brief summary

In the prologue Machiavelli says that everyone considers him dead, but his soul flew across the Alps and he arrived in Britain to his friends. He considers religion a toy and asserts that there is no sin, but there is only stupidity, that power is affirmed only by force, and the law, like the Dragon, … Read more

Summary Bitter fate of Pisemsky

AF Pisemsky Bitter fate In anticipation of the return from earnings from St. Petersburg quitrent Ananias Yakovlev, “a man from the soul of the proud, own”, hardworking and economic, in a festively cleaned hut, anxiously glancing at the marked road, talking two old women – Spiridonievna and Matryona, the mother of Lizaveta, Anania’s wife, in … Read more

Summary Orpheus

Jean Cocteau Orpheus The action takes place in the living room of the country villa Orpheus and Eurydice, reminiscent of the illusionist’s salon; despite the April sky and bright lighting, it becomes obvious to the audience that the room is in the power of mysterious charms, so that even the usual objects in it look … Read more

“24 hours from the life of a woman” Zweig in brief summary

Ten years before the war, the narrator rested on the Riviera, in a small boarding house. In a nearby hotel, a major scandal broke out. A young Frenchman arrived by day train, who immediately attracted everyone’s attention with his beauty and courtesy. He very quickly met all of them and, two hours after his arrival, … Read more

Summary of Shosh

IB Singer Shosa Red-haired blue-eyed Arele – Aaron Gradinger, the son of a well-educated rabbi, lives with his family in Krohmalnaya Street, in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw. He has known three languages ​​since childhood and is educated in the Talmud. The eight-year-old boy is friends with his coeval, daughter of neighbor Basie Shosha. She … Read more

Summary “Zone”

Corporal Petrov, nicknamed Fidel – an illiterate man with a broken psyche, he drank with catastrophic speed. He severely wounded his comrade in the service of Alikhanov and does not feel the slightest remorse. In his prayer addressed to God, the hopelessness of the situation in which the hero fell and the cruelty of his … Read more

What happened in the zoo

Edward Albee What happened in the zoo The action takes place in the central park in New York on a summer Sunday We see two garden benches facing each other, behind them bushes, trees. Peter is sitting on the right bench, he is reading a book. Peter is about forty years old, very ordinary, wearing … Read more

Summary “To you greetings from the woman Lera” Vasilyeva

The author (narration is conducted on his behalf) gets to know the woman Lera in the summer of 1963. The old woman lives in an abandoned village with Anisya Polikarpovna – Anisha. Both women went through the Gulag before settling down together. Anisya is prone to short drinking bouts. She treats new people with suspicion. … Read more

“Cancer body” Solzhenitsyn in brief

All gathered this terrible body – the thirteenth, cancerous. Persecuted and persecuted, silent and vigorous, hard workers and money-grubbers – they collected and depersonalized everyone, all of them are now only seriously ill, torn from the habitual situation, rejected and rejected all the familiar and native. They do not have anybody else’s house, no life … Read more