“The Heart of a Dog” Bulgakov in brief
The action takes place in Moscow in the winter of 1924-25. Professor Philip Philipovich Preobrazhensky discovered a method of rejuvenating the body by transplanting the glands of internal secretion of animals. In his seven-room
Summary Decameron J. Boccaccio
J. Boccaccio Decameron The first day of the Decameron, “In the sequel, after the author reports on what occasion they gathered and what they talked about, the persons who would act further spoke, the
Summary The liberated Prometheus
PS Shelley The Prometheus Released The romantic utopian drama Shelley is written in a white pentameter. The action begins in the Caucasus Mountains, where in the gorge among the ice-covered rocks Tomet Prometheus languishes
Summary “The Alpine Ballad” Bykova
At night there was a bombing, and in the morning five prisoners of war found an unexploded bomb in a dilapidated factory shop. It was a chance. Replacing the damaged fuse, the prisoners cast
Summary of “Mrs. Dalloway” Wolfe
The novel takes place in London, among the English aristocracy, in 1923 and takes only one day. Along with the real events, the reader also gets to know the past of the heroes, thanks
“Pamela, or Richardson’s Remunerated Virtue” in summary
Pamela, barely fifteen children, the daughter of a poor but virtuous married couple Andrews, informs in a letter to her parents that the noble lady, in whose service she spent the last few years
Summary Balter B. And
Boris Isaakovich Balter (1919-1974) – Russian Soviet prose writer, author of the story “Good-bye, boys!”. He graduated from school in Evpatoria. In 1936 he was sent to Leningrad, and from 1938 to the Kiev
Summary “House on the Embankment” Trifonova
The action takes place in Moscow and unfolds in several time frames: the mid-1930s, the second half of the 1940s, the early 1970s. The scientist, literary critic Vadim Aleksandrovich Glebov, who has agreed in
“This is me, Eddie” Limonov in brief summary
A young Russian poet, Eduard Limonov, will emigrate with his wife Elena to America. Elena – a beauty and romantic nature, fell in love with Eddie for his, it seems to him, an immortal
Summary of “Moroz Ivanovich” Odoevsky
In one house there lived two girls – the Handyman yes Lenivitsa, and with them the nurse. The needlewoman was a clever girl: she got up early, she put on clothes herself, without nurse,