Snow White Summary, a fairy tale collected by the Grimm brothers. This is a classic story of love, jealousy, and genuine friendship. An evil queen wants to kill her stepdaughter Snow White, as she was the fairest in the land.
Beauty and the Beast
"The Beauty and the Beast" is a heartfelt story about the birth of love and the capability of love to transform the way you look at people you love. The moral of this fairytale is that person's beauty comes from a heart in love and when the beauty realizes the inner beauty of the beast […]
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliette is an epic love story whose plot is set in a small Italian city Verona. A great hatred between the powerful families Capuleti and Montecchi was carried out through generations. Genre: romantic tragedy Time: 14th/15th century Place: Verona and Mantova Book Summary The plot begins on a warm night in July when the […]
On the River
Guy de Maupassant and Emile Zola are the most famous writers of the French naturalism. Zola even developed the theory of naturalism and he states that it should strive to show nature and human's temper as they are. Maupassant is said to have loved water since he was a little his and in this work […]
Canzoniere
"Canzoniere" is a book of poems composed out of two parts. Thanks to this work Petrarca, whose name was anglicized as Petrarch, became famous. The whole book of poems is inspired by his great love for Laura. This work served as a patter for other generations of writers. This book doesn't offer a simple and […]
Steppenwolf
"Steppenwolf" is a novel by Hermann Hesse, a German author, which was published in 1927. The author writes about a lonely, dissatisfied intellectual Harry Haller and he described his mental state through a battle between his human and wolf side. The novel wasn't accepted in the beginning and was even banned in the USA because […]
If I Were a Grown-Up
The educational picture book "If I Were a Grown Up" shows us life through children's eyes. Kids have a hard time understanding the values of good manners and the reasons for which they should behave and listen to their parents. Raising a kid is not an easy job but parents should understand that every order […]
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
"The Story of Doctor Dolittle" is a children's novel by the English writer Hugh Lofting. The full name of the work is "The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts". This novel is the first out of a series of 12 novels about […]
Gargantua
The novel "Gargantua" looks as if it revolves around the life of the main character Gargantua. The author gives us an insight into the smallest details of his life such as his origins, birth, childhood, life in Paris and liberation of his homeland. The novel seems to be a chivalric romance that consists out of […]
Pantagruel
The first few chapters are dedicated to getting to know the main character. His birth, childhood, teen years and moving to Paris are shown. The return to his country is marked by the liberation of the land that was under enemies reign. The author shows us events that concern the main character and at first […]
The Chairs
The play "The Chairs" by Eugene Ionesco was written and performed for the first time in 1952 in the Parisian theater Lancry and soon after it was performed it was named as one of the leading works of the avant-garde. As for the style and theme of the play, they follow the ideas from the […]
The Bald Soprano
The first play written by the French writer Ionesco was "The Bold Soprano". It was written in 1948 and performed in 1950 in Paris. Today is one of the most performed plays in France, even though the first performance wasn't a success. The author's inspiration for this play emerged from his desire to learn the […]
The Nightingale
"The Nightingale" is a fairytale with an unexpected ending. Even though we are used to hearing happy endings, this one is a bit different especially compared to other fairytales by Andersen. It begins by a China's emperor hearing about a magnificent bird, a little nightingale with a beautiful voice. The emperor sent his minister to […]
The Swineherd
The fairytale about the princess and the swineherd is actually a story about unrequited love. The swineherd, who was actually a prince, fell in love with the young princess and he had sent her two gifts that she didn't like. He decided to dress up as a poor young man so he could get a […]
The Ridiculous Wishes
The story "The Ridiculous Wishes", also known as "Three Ridiculous Wishes" is a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault and it was published in 1697 in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé. The story describes the life of an unsatisfied woodcutter who complained about the skies never granting him a wish. Then Jupiter appeared and […]
In Desert and Wilderness
"In Desert and Wilderness" is a teen novel by a famous Poland writer and Nobel award-winner Henryk Sienkiewicz. It was written in 1912. The plot is set in the 19th century and it's about two friends, a 14 years old Polish boy Stanislaw and his 8 years old friend Nel for England. She was kidnapped […]
Electra
The Greek tragedy "Electra" was written by Euripides in 410 B.C. There is a work with the same name by Sophocles but it was never determined which one was written first. The plot happened even before the Trojan war. Agamemnon decided, under the influence of goddess Artemis, to sacrifice his daughter Iphigeneia. In return, the […]
Orlando Furioso
The chivalric epic "Orlando Furioso" by Ludovico Ariosto is considered to be one of the most famous works of Italian and European literature. It consists out of 46 cantos and it was written in Italian using octave and hendecasyllable. It was firstly published in 1516 and it had 40 cantos. The author worked and changed […]
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus was a well known Greek tragedian who wrote a trilogy whose first part is "Prometheus Bound". The work is about a myth and it was written in 6 acts. The main motive is the rage of Zeus caused by Prometheus stealing the fire from the gods and giving it to people. Fire was considered […]
The King's Fifth
"The King's Fifth" is an adventure as well as a history novel that brings us back to the 16th century. This exciting novel shows us the conquests of the Spanish conquistadores that won over great areas of South America while putting under their command the native tribes. The novel is divided into 32 chapters and […]
Little Nicholas
"Little Nicholas" is a work by a French author Rene Goscinny who also wrote the stories about Asterix and Lucky Luke. The novel originally called "Le Petit Nicholas", also has a movie adaption which speaks volumes about its popularity. The novel is composed out of 19 chapters and every chapter represents an event from Nicholas' […]
The Cid
The tragedy "Cid" is the most famous work by Pierre Corneille. It was written in verses in 5 acts. The plot is set in Spain in the 11th century. The main character of the story is the Spanish national hero Cid and the whole plot is taken from the play "Cid's youth" by the Spanish […]
Speed Surf
This is the third out of 8 novels from the series "Internet Detective" from the author Michael Coleman. The first novel is titled "Net Bandits" and the second one "Escape Key". This sequel keeps up with the lives of six friends from all over the world that, with the help of Internet, solve all kinds […]
Nausea
"Nausea" (French "La Nausée") is a philosophic novel and the most famous work by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. It was published in 1938 and became the lead work of the philosophy of existentialism. The novel describes a few week in the empty life of Antoine Roqueting who is haunted by feeling of nausea and […]
Escape Key
"Escape Key" is the second out of eight novels from the series "Internet Detectives" by Michael Coleman. The first novel named "Net Bandits" was followed by the sequel which continues to keep up with the lives of 6 friends from different parts of the world who united by internet solve mysteries to which apparently they […]
Net Bandits
"Net Bandits" is the first out of eight novels from the series "Internet Detectives" by Michael Coleman. The novel gives us a look into the teen lives of Tamsyn, Josh, and Rob who didn't even knew each other in the beginning of the novel. They've met accidentally online. The novel was published in 1996 when […]
No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most engaged philosophers of the 20th century and his philosophic opinions are expressed through his work. By the traditional philosophy, a man is defined in advance and before his existence is his essence, or better yet his meaning. Existentialism takes a different point of view and believes that a […]
Phaedra (Phèdre)
"Phèdre" is a tragedy by the dramatic Jean Racine. It is based on ancient sources such as Seneca's Phaedra and Euripides Hippolytus. The famous work is about love with a woman as the main character. Phèdre is divided into 5 acts. There are a few reasons for Phaedra's tragic faith. The first one is the […]
The Sorrows of Young Werther
"The Sorrows of Young Werther" is a novel from the German Sturm und Drang and one of the most popular novels in the world history. It's an epistolary novel composed out of letters divided into two parts. The letters are from Werther to his friend Wilhelm in whom he seeks support. Mostly the book contains […]
Doll's House (Nora)
The play "Doll's House", referred to also as "Nora" by its main character, draw attention with its premiere. In 1879 when it was firstly performed it involved the problems of women's emancipation but today Nora's departure is debated in the term whether she had the right to leave her husband and children. Today the play […]