Summary Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer An experimental field on which a paradoxical and contradictory trend of one human life unfolds-the life of an indigent American in Paris at the turn of the 1920s-1930s-becomes, in essence, the entire western civilization of the twentieth century engulfed in a deadly crisis. With Henry, the hero of the book, … Read more

Summary of Ulysses

James Joyce Ulysses The novel tells of one day of June 16, 1904, from the life of the Lipold Bloom, a Dublin Jew of thirty-eight years, and Stephen Dedal, twenty-two. Three parts of a huge book, divided into eighteen episodes, should, according to the author, relate to the Homeric Odyssey (Ulysses – Latin transcription of … Read more

Summary “Fight for fire”

The prehistoric tribe of Ulamaras has a terrible fate: their fire, which was kept in three special cells, and whose life was supported by four women and two men day and night, perished! Fire meant life for the ulamars. And now at once two terrible misfortunes have fallen upon their tribe: the attack of “devouring … Read more

M. Yursenar’s “Philosopher’s Stone” in brief summary

1529 year. On the crossroads of two roads there are cousins. Henri Maximilian, the son of the rich merchant Henri-Just Ligr, sixteen years old: he raves Plutarch and piously believes that he will be able to compete with Alexander the Great and Caesar. He does not like to sit in his father’s shop and measure … Read more

“Sealed Angel” Leskov in brief summary

Several travelers are hiding in the inn from the weather. One of them states that “every saved man… the angel guides,” and the angel himself led him. The next story he says, kneeling, because everything that happened – “a very sacred and terrible thing.” Markusha, an “insignificant man,” born in the “old Russian faith”, serves … Read more

Summary The Black Prince

Iris Murdoch The Black Prince The text of Bradley Pearson’s book The Black Prince, or the Feast of Love is framed by the foreword and afterword of the publisher, from which it follows that Bradley Pearson died in prison of transient cancer, which he opened shortly after he finished the manuscript. Wanting to restore the … Read more

“Prince and the beggar” Twain in summary

London, the middle of the XVI century. On the same day, two boys are born – Tom, the son of the thief John Kenti, huddling in the stinking cul-de-sac Yard Courtyard, and Edward, heir to King Henry the Eighth. Edward is waiting for all of England, Tom does not really need even his own family, … Read more

Summary Therese Desqueira

Francois Moriak Theresa Desqueira Theresa Deskairu leaves the courtroom. She was accused of attempting to poison her husband, but with the efforts of her relatives the case was stopped “for lack of corpus delicti.” The honor of the family is saved. Teresa is to return home, to Argelouz, where her husband is waiting, who saved … Read more

“Demophonte” Metastasis in summary

Dircea begs her father Matius not to rebel against the law, which requires the annual sacrifice of the young virgin of the noble family to Apollo. The name of the victim determines the lot. Only the royal daughters are spared from the terrible duty, and even then because they were sent by the father outside … Read more

Summary of the “World of Aristophanes”

Riders are not just horsemen: it was called in Athens a whole class – those who had enough money to keep the fighting horse. They were wealthy people, they had small estates outside the city, they lived by their income and wanted Athens to be a peaceful, closed agricultural state. The poet Aristophanes wanted peace; … Read more