A Summary of Saltykov-Shchedrin’s “Conscience”

“Conscience was lost all of a sudden, almost instantly!” Even yesterday this annoying prizhivalka flashed before my eyes, and seemed to be excited imagination, and all of a sudden nothing! ” Without conscience, people

Summary Dr. Faustus Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Doctor Faustus The story is conducted on behalf of Ph. D. Serenus Tzeitblom. Born in 1883, he graduated from the gymnasium of the town of Kaisersaherna, then the university, becomes a teacher

Summary The elderly mother

G. Kh. Andersen Mother of God Mother was about to give her cold son a cup of tea. An old man looked in, and always had a fairy tale ready for him. When a

Summary of “Jewish Suess”

There is an action in the German duchy of Württemberg, in the XVIII century. The dowry banker of the Duke of Eberhard-Ludwig and Countess von Würben Isaac Simon Landauer, an influential and wealthy man,

Sylphide Summary

VF Odoevsky Sylphide My friend Platon Mikhailovich decided to move to the village. He settled in the house of the late uncle and for the first time was completely blissful. From one kind of

Summary Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov. Snow Maiden

THE SNOWBOY (Spring Tale) Opera in four acts with a prologue Libretto by NA Rimsky-Korsakov Characters: King Berendey Bermyat, neighbor boyar Spring-red Santa Claus Girl Snow Maiden Bobyl Bakula Bobylikha, his wife Lel, the

Summary At the dead end

V. V. Veresaev In the impasse Black Sea. Crimea. The white waves are rolling under the very terrace of a cozy house with a tiled roof and green shutters. Here in the cottage settlement

Summary “The Stone Guest” by Pushkin

SCENE ONE Don Guan and Leporello Horsemen reached Madrid and waited for darkness to make their way into the city unrecognized. Don Guan boastfully declares: What a misfortune, even if they find out. Only

Summary of the Blot Nikolay Nosov

NN Nosov Blot Boy Fedya Rybkin liked to make the whole class laugh, it was even a habit. Once he fought with Grisha Kopeikin because of the bottle of carcass. And accidentally one drop

Summary of the womb of Paris

Emile Zola The womb of Paris Florent returned to Paris, where seven years ago, in December 1851, after barricade fights in the night city, he was sent into exile, to the hell of Cayenne.
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