“Envy” Olesha in the summary

“He sings in the morning in a closet.” You can imagine what a cheerful, healthy person he is. ” Without this textbook, which has become a volatile phrase, with which Olesha’s novel begins, it is indispensable. And it is about a former revolutionary, a member of the Politkotorzhan Society, now a large Soviet business executive, … Read more

Summary Aunt Egorich

KD Vorobiev Aunt Egorich The story takes place in 1928. The narrative is conducted from the first person; the narrator remembers his childhood many years later. Ten-year-old Sanka is an orphan: his father died in a civil war, his mother died of typhus. He lives in the village of Kamyshinka with his aunt Egoricha and … Read more

Summary of “Nikita” Platonov

The main hero of the story is a little boy Nikita. He is five years old. He lives with his mother, and Nikita’s father is at the front. Mother goes to work every day in the field, and the boy remains at home alone. He’s scared. But my mother punished him to look behind the … Read more

Summary “Dark alleys”

Ivan Bunin’s story “Dark alleys” was written in 1938 and entered the collection of stories “Dark alleys”, devoted to the theme of love. For the first time the work was published in 1943 in the New York edition of New Land. The story “Dark alleys” is written in the tradition of the literary direction of … Read more

“Figures” of Bunin in the summary

“My dear, when you grow up, will you remember how one winter night you left the nursery in the dining room – it was after one of our quarrels – and, with your eyes down, made such a sad face? but I do not know anyone touching you when you’re quiet, you come and squeezed … Read more

Summary “An Effective Leader”

An effective leader is strong support from subordinates. To be a good boss – it is first of all necessary to establish good relations with subordinates. They have an objective assessment of the chef’s leadership style. The way he looks in the eyes of his subordinates, how they relate to him and explains his successes … Read more

“Cavalry” Babel in brief summary

My first goose Correspondent of the newspaper “Red Cavalryman” Liutov is in the ranks of the First Cavalry Army, headed by S. Budyonny. The First Horse, fighting with the Poles, makes a trek through Western Ukraine and Galicia. Among the gunmen, Liutov is a stranger. Ochkarik, an intellectual, a Jew, he feels condescending, mocking, and … Read more

“Mrs. Bovary” Flaubert in summary

The young physician Charles Bovary first saw Emma Ruo when he was summoned to the farm of her father who broke his leg. Emma had a blue wool dress with three frills. Her hair was black, smoothly combed in front on the straight parting, cheeks pink, eyes of large black eyes straight and open. Charles … Read more

Grandpa Mazai and hares

Each summer the narrator came for a week to the village of Malye Vezha to stay with the old hunter Mazai and to hunt with him. One day during the hunt a heavy rain began, and the narrator and Mazai took refuge in the shed. The old man began to tell stories about village hunters: … Read more

Summary “Silence” Bondarev

The euphoria of the Moscow pre-New Year’s Eve in December 45 coincided with the mood of the recently demobilized from Germany captain Sergei Vohmintsev, “when it seemed that everything beautiful in himself and in life he had just realized and it should not disappear.” Four years of war, the command of an artillery battery, orders … Read more