Summary “Contractor from Norwood”
For many hours, Sherlock Holme sat hunched over a glass vial in which something unusually smelly was being cooked. His head was lowered to his chest, and he seemed to me like a strange
“Burst” Burroughs in the summary
William Lee was born and raised in a fashionable quiet suburb of one of the big cities of the Midwest. In childhood and adolescence, he did not stand out among peers, except that he
Summary Hadji Murad LN Tolstoy
L. N. Tolstoy Hadji Murad On a cold November evening in 1851, Hadji Murad, the famous naib of Imam Shamil, drives into the inhospitable Chechen aul Mahket. A Chechen Sado receives a guest in
Summary Sannikov Land Obruchev V. A
In the first lines of the novel Obruchev describes the appearance at the meeting of the Imperial Geographical Society of an unnamed “naval officer who performed a bold swim in the whaleboat through the
Summary Birthmark
MA Sholokhov Birthmark On the table are cartridges, lamb bone, a field map, a brief, a bridle, a crust of bread. At the table sits Nikolka Koshevoy, squadron commander, he fills out the questionnaire.
Summary of “The Twelfth Night, or Anything” by Shakespeare
The action of the comedy takes place in a fantastic country for the English of Shakespeare’s time – Illyria. The Duke of Illyria Orsino is in love with the young Countess Olivia, but she
Summary of “Travel Alice” Bulychev
The story consists of 24 chapters, each of which, in fact, is a small independent finished story. From the first chapter, the reader will learn about the preparations for an interstellar journey to collect
“Atta Troll” Heine in brief summary
This poem by Heinrich Heine tells of a bear named Atta Troll. The action begins in 1841 in the small resort town of Cotere in the Pyrenees, where the lyrical hero rested with his
Schiller’s “Robbers” in brief summary
The action takes place in the modern author of the play of Germany. The plot unfolds for two years. Drama is preceded by the epigraph of Hippocrates, which in the Russian translation reads: “What
A brief analysis of A. A. Blok’s “Nightingale Garden” poem
A. Blok’s poem “Nightingale Garden” is a typically romantic work, therefore its main images are conditional, do not have the features of a specific time and space. Using his favorite method of antithesis, the