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1. “I want to sleep” Chekhov in brief Night. Nurse Varka, a girl of about 13, shakes the cradle and sings a lullaby a little audibly. The child cries and does not fall asleep, Varka wants to sleep, but if she falls asleep, the owners will kill her. She dreams, as people walk along the road, and then fall and fall asleep. Then […]...
2. Summary “I want to sleep” Chekhov Night. Nurse Varka, a girl of about thirteen, shakes the cradle and sings a lullaby a little audibly. The child cries and does not fall asleep, Varka wants to sleep, but if she falls asleep, the owners will kill her. She dreams, as people walk along the road, and then fall and fall asleep. Then […]...
3. Summary Sleep – life F. Grilpartser Dream – life In the old days in Persia, in a picturesque mountainous area, among the rocks and trees, the family of the rich villager Masud lives. Every summer evening, Mirza, the daughter of Masud, awaits with fear and trepidation the return from the hunting of Rustan. This is the nephew of Masud, […]...
4. Summary Sleep Makar VG Korolenko Son of Makar Makar is the main character, a peasant. The author himself referred his work to “holy stories”. Written in the Yakut exile (the winter of 1883), the story was inspired by the real impressions of the young writer (he lived with peasant Zakhar Tsykunov, who became the prototype of Makar). But, […]...
5. Summary “Elephant” by Kuprin Six-year-old girl Nadia is ill, according to Dr. Mikhail Petrovich, “indifference to life.” The only way to cure it is to cheer. But the girl does not want anything and every day becomes weaker. So she lies whole days and whole nights, quiet, sad. Sometimes she sleeps for half an hour, but in a dream […]...
6. Summary Elephant AI Kuprin Elephant Little girl Nadia (6 years old) fell ill, according to Dr. Mikhail Petrovich, “indifference to life.” The only way to cure is to cheer. But the girl does not want anything. Once she asked for an elephant. Half an hour later, my father brought her an “expensive beautiful toy” – a gray […]...
7. A brief summary of NA Nekrasov’s poem “Railroad” Late fall. Snow has already fallen out, but the leaves are not yet withered, and the lyrical hero is the narrator, he is traveling on the train. His fellow travelers are a general with his son Vanya. The child asks who built this railway. Father answers that the road was built by Count Kleinmichel. The […]...
8. Painting by Plastov “Mama” The picture shows a woman who shakes a cradle with an infant, and next to the cradle is a girl of about three. The picture is made in bright colors. Pillows that are lined with a pyramid, behind the back of a woman of red color. The wooden hut, on the wall of which hangs […]...
9. “Elephant” Kuprin in brief summary Little girl Nadia fell ill, according to Dr. Mikhail Petrovich, “indifference to life.” The only way to cure is to cheer. But the girl does not want anything. Once she asked for an elephant. Half an hour later, my father brought her an “expensive beautiful toy” – a gray elephant, who waved his tail and […]...
10. Summary Nevsky Prospekt Gogol NV Gogol Nevsky Prospekt Here you will find everything you want. In the morning it is for employees; from 12 – for tutors and children; from 2 pm – for parents and society. Nevsky Prospect is an exhibition of people. At 3 o’clock here dinner officials, and with 4 empty, but in the evening walkers […]...
11. Summary “The Old Man and the Sea” of Hemingway The old man is fishing alone in the sea. For eighty-four days, he has not yet caught a single fish. In the first forty days a boy was fishing with him. Then the parents sent him to work for another, more “lucky” boat. The old man looks thin, emaciated and very old. Young at it […]...
12. Summary “Well and pendulum” By The narrator endures inquisitorial tortures in prison. The last words he hears are the words of the death sentence. The condemned faints. Opening his eyes, he discovers that he is in utter darkness. Afraid that he was immured alive, he jumps to his feet and goes forward. Realizing that he was in a rather spacious […]...
13. Summary “Steel Throat” Bulgakova For twenty-four years, the narrator lived in a very large city. Forty-eight days ago he graduated with honors from the medical faculty of the university and was appointed head of the Nikolsky medical hospital, although he wanted to work in a county town forty miles from Nikolsky, where there was electricity and four doctors with […]...
14. “Nanjing Christ” Akutagawa in brief summary Sun Jin-hua, a fifteen-year-old prostitute, sits at home and gnaws watermelon seeds. From time to time she looks at a small bronze crucifix hanging on the wall of her wretched little room, and hope appears in her eyes. Jin-hua is a Catholic. She became a prostitute to feed herself and her father’s old man. Jin-hua […]...
15. Summary Fro Andrei Platonov AP Platonov Fro The main heroine of the work is a twenty-year-old girl Frosya, daughter of a railwayman. Her husband left far and long. Frosya is very sad about him, life loses for her any meaning, she even throws the railway communication and signaling. Frosya’s father, Nefed Stepanovich, retired by age, but continues to miss […]...
16. “Fro” Platonov in brief summary The main heroine of the work is a twenty-year-old girl Frosya, daughter of a railwayman. Her husband left far and long. Frosya is very sad about him, life loses all meaning for her, she even throws the railway communication and signaling courses. Frosya’s father, Nefed Stepanovich, retired by age, but continues to miss his job. […]...
17. Summary of “Tanya” Bunin The village girl Tanya wakes up from the cold. The mother has already risen and thunders. The wanderer who spent the night in their hut does not sleep either. He starts to ask Tanka, and the girl tells that they had to sell the cow and horse, there was only one calf. Sale of the […]...
18. Summary Leader of the Redskins O. Henry the Red Lord Two adventurers – the narrator Sam and Bill Driscoll – have already earned something, and now they need a little more to go into speculation in land. They decide to kidnap the son of one of the wealthiest inhabitants of a small town in the state of Alabama, Colonel Ebenezer […]...
19. Summary “The Old Turtle” Nagibin In the pet store, Vasya saw two small turtles, but the mother refused to buy them, because they already had an old turtle Masha, and three turtles in the house – that’s too much. When the mother fell asleep, Vasya took Masha to the market. There he found a buyer ready to buy an old […]...
20. A summary of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” The play takes place in Athens. The ruler of Athens is Theseus. On the queen of the Amazon tribe, Ippolite, Theseus wants to marry. The wedding of the Queen of Amazons Hippolyta and the Duke of Theseus, was to take place on the night of the full moon day. At the palace, the angry Aegeus, […]...
21. Summary of “Little Watery” by Proysler One fine day, when the water mill came home, his wife said to him: “From now on, you must be very quiet.” Because we have a little boy. – What are you saying! – the father-watery was delighted. “A real little boy?” “Yes, the real Little Water!” said the wife. “I beg you, take off […]...
22. Summary Moon for the stepsons of fate Yu. G. O’Neill The Moon for the stepsons of fate Events take us to Connecticut, the farmer’s house, Phil Hohen. The action takes place in early September 1923 and at the dawn of the next day. The three sons of Hogan fled from the house in turn, very disagreeable in the father’s way, and the […]...
23. Respect for elders Hearing once again from the older woman the phrase that her child does not respect parents, the young mother is internally proud that with her something like that will never happen, because her baby is so tender, affectionate and, in general, is the best. And indeed it is. But for now. While you are for […]...
24. Summary “Blue Bird” by Maeterlinck Tiltil and Mitil peacefully sleep on the eve of Christmas. Music is heard outside the windows and wakes the children. They look out into the street and see the noisy celebration of Christmas from rich neighbors. Then someone knocked at the door. On the threshold stood an old woman in green robes with a coquettish […]...
25. Summary Orpheus descends into hell T. Williams Orpheus descends into hell The action of the play unfolds in the “small town of one of the southern states.” The owner of the universal store, Jayb Torrens, the leader of the local Ku Klux Klan, is brought from the hospital, where after a thorough examination the doctors came to the conclusion that […]...
26. Summary “And set this house on fire” The play unfolds in the “small town of one of the southern states.” The owner of the universal store, Jayb Torrens, the leader of the local Ku Klux Klan, is brought from the hospital, where after a thorough examination the doctors came to the conclusion that his days were numbered. This living dead man, even […]...
27. Summary “Money for Maria” Rasputin To go for help to his brother Kuzma decided at night, although at heart he doubted that his brother would help – they had long been strangers. Shaking in the cold bus, he remembers how it all began. Five days ago, a “peasant of forty” appeared in their village to conduct an audit in a […]...
28. Summary “White Poodle” by Kuprin A small wandering troupe traveled around the Crimea: an organ-grinder Martyn Lodyzhkin with an old organ-grinder, a twelve-year-old boy Sergei and a white poodle Artaud. On that day the artists were unlucky. They went from dacha to dacha, they went around the whole village, but they could not earn anything. At the last dacha with […]...
29. O. Henry, the leader of the redskins, in brief Two adventurers – the narrator Sam and Bill Driscoll – have already earned something, and now they need a little more to go into speculation in land. They decide to kidnap the son of one of the wealthiest inhabitants of a small town in the state of Alabama, Colonel Ebenezer Dorsett. The heroes do not […]...
30. “Dreams of Chang” Bunin in brief summary Chang slumbers, recalls how six years ago in China he met his current master, the captain. During this time, their fate changed abruptly: they no longer swim, live in the attic, in a large and cold room with low ceilings. The captain sleeps on the crushed bed, but Chang remembers what bed his master had […]...
31. Summary “Evening on the eve of Ivan Kupala” by Gogol This story was once told by the deacon Foma Grigorevich, and one pan managed to print it with a book, but his retelling was so bad that the author undertook to tell this story again. The deacon heard this story from his grandfather, who was famous for his truthfulness, and many details of history belong […]...
32. Summary “A Boy in a White Shirt” Astafyev 1933 year. It’s a dry summer. All the population of the Far Eastern village moves to the zaimki to clean the rye and wheat that has survived. In the village there are old people and children. Vitin dog Sharik howls, calling, according to the grandmother, trouble. And trouble comes. The hatch of Auntoni’s aunt is […]...
33. Plotonov’s “ditch” in the summary “On the day of the thirtieth anniversary of his personal life, Voshchev was given a calculation from a small mechanical factory where he was earning funds for his existence.” He wrote in a dismissal document that he was being eliminated from production due to the growth of weakness in him and thoughtfulness among the general […]...
34. Summary “Woman in the Sands” Abe One day in August a person goes on a three-day vacation to replenish his collection of insects with rare species found in the sands. He gets on the train to station S, transits to the bus and, getting off at the last stop, goes on foot. He passes the village and goes by the sandy […]...
35. Pushkin’s “Gypsies” in brief summary The gypsy camp roams the steppes of Bessarabia. At the campfire, a gypsy family prepares dinner, horses are grazing in the distance, and behind the tent is a tame bear. Gradually, everything stops and falls into a dream. Only in one tent does not sleep an old man, waiting for his daughter Zemfira, left to […]...
36. Summary Kotlovan Andrey Platonov AP Platonov Kotlovan “On the day of the thirtieth anniversary of his personal life, Voshchev was given a calculation from a small mechanical factory where he was earning funds for his existence.” In the dismissal document he was told that he was being eliminated from production due to the growth of weakness in him and […]...
37. Summary Gypsies AS Pushkin AS Pushkin Gypsies The gypsy camp roams the steppes of Bessarabia. At the campfire, a gypsy family prepares dinner, horses are grazing in the distance, and behind the tent is a tame bear. Gradually, everything stops and falls into a dream. Only in one tent does not sleep an old man, waiting for his daughter […]...
38. Summary Woman in the Sands Kobo Abe Woman in the Sands One day in August a person goes on a three-day vacation to replenish his collection of insects with rare species found in the sands. He gets on the train to station S, transits to the bus and, getting off at the last stop, goes on foot. He passes the […]...
39. Summary of Chung’s Dreams IA Bunin Dreams Chang Chang (dog) sleeps, recalls how six years ago in China he met his current master, captain. During this time, their fate changed abruptly: they no longer swim, live in the attic, in a large and cold room with low ceilings. The captain sleeps on the crushed bed, but Chang remembers what […]...
40. “Moon for the stepsons of fate” O’Neill in brief Events take us to Connecticut, the farmer’s house, Phil Hohen. The action takes place in early September 1923 and at the dawn of the next day. The three sons of Hogan fled from the house in turn, very disagreeable in the father’s way, and the hand is not easier. Only twenty-eight-year-old daughter of Josie gets […]...