Summary Ghost of Alexander Wolf

GI Gazdanov The Phantom of Alexander Wolf The most vivid and most painful recollection of the hero of the novel (in the future we will call him – the hero, because the narrator of the young journalist, the Russian emigrant in Paris, has no name, the novel is written in the first person) – a … Read more

Summary “A wizard was walking around the city” Tomina

Small miracles Tolik Ryzhkov is a simple fourth-grader from Leningrad, who, however, is not alien to negative features of character – laziness, dishonesty, boasting and vanity. Once Tolik violates the rules of traffic and, running away from the policeman, he accidentally gets into a strange yard, from which there is no way out. In the … Read more

Summary of Menechma, or Gemini

Plaut Menechma, or Gemini In the city of Siracusa lived a merchant, and he had two twin boys, like two drops of water. The merchant drove out of the sea and took with him one of the boys – named Menechm. There was a holiday, the boy was lost in the crowd; he was picked … Read more

Summary Fourth prose

O. E. Mandelstam Fourth prose Some people try to save others from being shot. But they act in this way in different ways. The wise calculation of the Odessa Newton-mathematician, with which Veniamin Fedorovich approached the matter, is different from Isaac Benediktovich’s stupid troubles. Isai Benediktovich behaves as if the shooting is a contagious and … Read more

Summary Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland The heroine of the book, a girl named Alice, begins her journey to the Land of Wonders unexpectedly for herself: Alice, razmylshaya from heat and idleness, suddenly noticed a rabbit, which in itself is not surprising; but this rabbit turned out to be not only speaking (which Alice was not … Read more

“How the Steel Was Tempered” by Ostrovsky in Brief Content

The autobiographical novel of Nikolai Ostrovsky is divided into two parts, each of which contains nine chapters: childhood, adolescence and adolescence; then mature years and illness. For the unworthy act of the cook’s son, Pavka Korchagin is being expelled from the school, and he falls into “people”. “The boy looked into the very depths of … Read more

Summary “The rout” of Fadeev

The commander of the partisan detachment, Levinson, orders the orderly Morozka to take the package to another detachment. Frost does not want to go, he suggests sending someone else; Levinson quietly orders the orderly to surrender their weapons and go to all four sides. Morozka, having returned to her senses, takes the letter and goes … Read more

“Timur and his team” Gaidar in summary

Colonel Alexandrov for three months at the front. He sends a telegram to his daughter in Moscow, invites them to spend the rest of the summer at the dacha. The eldest, eighteen-year-old Olga, goes there with things, leaving the thirteen-year-old Zhenya to clean the apartment. Olga is an engineer, she is engaged in music, she … Read more

“Richard III” of Shakespeare in brief summary

When Richard was born, a storm ravaged the trees. Foreshadowing timelessness, the owl screamed and the owl wept, the dogs howled, the crows crowed ominously and the magpies chattered. In the most difficult births there was born a formless ball, from which his own mother recoiled in horror. The baby was a humpback, a crib, … Read more

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 … Read more