Executive summary Invitation to execution

V. V. Nabokov Invitation to execution “In accordance with the law, Cincinnatus C. declared a death sentence in a whisper.” Unforgivable Cincinnatus wine – in its “impenetrability”, “opacity” for the rest, to the horror of the similar (the jailor Rodion now and then turns into the director of the prison, Rodrig Ivanovich, and vice versa, … Read more

“The eldest son” of Vampilov in brief summary

Two young people – a medical student Busygin and a sales agent Semyon, nicknamed Silva – priodararili for unfamiliar girls. Passing those to the house, but not meeting the further hospitality, which they counted on, they find that they were late for the train. The time later, on the street is cold, and they are … Read more

Summary Telegram

KG Paustovsky Telegram October was unusually cold, rainy. The cinder roofs turned black. The tangled grass in the garden lay down, and everything blossomed and there was no way to knead it and showered only one small sunflower near the fence. Over the meadows dragged from behind the river, clinging to the flying windy clouds … Read more

James Daisy Miller in brief

A young American, Winterbourne, who has lived in Europe for many years and has become unaccustomed to American customs, comes to a small Swiss town of Vevey to see his aunt. In the hotel, he accidentally gets acquainted with the rich American family of Millers – a nine-year-old boy, his older sister and their mother. … Read more

Summary “The Lord of the Flies” Golding

There was a nuclear explosion. A group of teenagers who were taken to evacuation was on a desert island. Ralph and the boy, nicknamed Piggy, find a large shell. They call all the guys. The boys are from three to fourteen years old. Choose the “main”. They become Ralph, and Jack is entrusted to lead … Read more

Summary of the “Old Woman Izergil”

Romantic story of Maxim Gorky “Old Woman Izergil” was written in 1894. The composition of the work is “a story in a story”. The narration is conducted on behalf of the author and the heroine of the story of the old woman Izergil. Three parts are subordinated to a common idea: meditation on the true … Read more

Short letter to a long farewell

Peter Handke Short letter to a long farewell The work of Handke is written in the first person. We still do not recognize the name of the narrator. There are not many external events in the story. It represents a free chronicle of several days, which are marked for the hero by a severe spiritual … Read more

“Yan’s successor to the Tribute” in summary

Tribute, the throne heir of the Yan kingdom, lived hostage in the Qin country. The prince there mocked him, did not let him go home. The insulted Tribute planned to take revenge on the offender. Escaping finally from captivity, he began to call the bravest warriors for a campaign against the ruler Qin. But the … Read more

Summary of Solzhenitsyn’s Matrinin Dvor

On the one hundred and eighty-fourth kilometer from Moscow along the Ryazan railway, “from the good half a year after that train slowed down, almost as if to a touch.” The passengers clung to the windows, wanting to see the reason only the machinists knew about. * In the summer of 1956, the author-narrator Ignatich … Read more

“Brand” Ibsen in summary

The western coast of Norway. Cloudy weather, morning half-light. Brand, a middle-aged man in black clothes and a knapsack behind his shoulders, makes his way west over the mountains to the fjord, where his native village lies. Brand holding fellow travelers – a peasant with his son. They argue – a straight path through the … Read more