"Jonathan Livingstone Seagull" is a contemporary fairytale that relies on modern time themes. Unlike the traditional fairytales where you have mythical creatures here you have fictional creatures. It's not only a modern fairytale but also an allegorical story because the whole plot points out to something more that the story appears to be telling. Because […]
The Little Water Sprite
''The little water sprite'' is an interesting story where we have a description of the habitants of a fishpond. A little water sprite's growing up and the first year of his life is described in the book. The life of the water sprite family is similar to human life because they live in houses, raise […]
Christ Legends and Other Stories
The book "Christ Legends and other stories" starts with the only realistic short story in the whole book that is named "Holy night". The story starts with a storyteller in the first person and the author opens up with her memory of her grandmother that died when she was 5. The grandma used to tell […]
The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy describes in an epic way Dantes three days long journey. His helper was Virgil. He was the voice of reason and Beatrice was the symbol of Lords mercy. With their help Dante had to go through hell, purgatory and heaven. The Divine Comedy is written divided to three parts and each of […]
A Midsummer Night's Dream
''The Midsummer night dream'' is a comedy written by Shakespeare. It's a combination between a pastoral and a comedy. It is divided into 3 parts. The first one is set in the castle of Theseus and is about his problems with love. The second part is set between the commoners and is about setting the […]
The Stranger
The Stranger is a novel with which Camus had his first success. It was influenced by Nietzsche and Sartre. The novel is showing us a meaningless and absurd life and how the humans drift apart from the world. Life is represented as a meaningless existence ruled by coincidences. The questionto which Camus seeks the answer […]
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
The thirteen years old boy Adrian Mole decided to write a journal and when he saw a TV show from the writer Malcolm Muggeridge he decided to send his poems to him. Adrian thought of himself as an intellectual because he understood every word on the show. Soon after sending the poems he got a […]
Winnie The Pooh
Winnie the Pooh is a book that Alan Alexander Milne wrote for his son Christoper Robin and the characters that the reader encounters in the book are toys from his sons room. He was observing how his son made his toys come to life by giving them a personality and came up with the idea […]
The Mistress of the Inn
To be able to completely understand Goldonis work we have to understand his beginning point and that is comedy dell'arte. Goldoni will make this type of comedy perfect in his works. This comedy reached its success in 17th century when it was spread all over Europe but in the 18th century the comedy loses its […]
Life Is a Dream
This work is written with verses in 3 acts. The plot and the characters are similar to fairytales. The moral-didactical lesson of the story is also fairytale like because the main character becomes a positive character. The whole point of the book is that good always beats evil. The author brings the main characters to […]
Pinocchio
The story begins with an old woodcarver Geppetto who carved a puppet and named it Pinocchio but the doll wasn't well behaved. He would take of his wig, run around the house etc. The old Geppetto threatened him on the street and grabbed his nose that was growing uncontrollably and because of that Geppetto ended […]
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe belongs to the adventurous type of novel and some even consider it to be the beginning of that type. The theme is an imaginary autobiography of an English castaway who spent 28 years on a tropical island and lived many adventures. It was published in 1719 and was a success right away. The […]
Aeneid
One of Virgils most famous work is the epic poem "Aeneid" that is consisted of 12 books. Aeneid is written in a dactylic hexameter. The main plot of it is the adventure of Aeneas who, after the city of Troy was destroyed, went on a journey. With this work Virgil wanted to emphasize the greatness of […]
The Jungle Book
"The Jungle book" is a collection of topic-related stories written by English writer and Nobel-prize winner Rudyard Kipling. Stories were published in magazines within 1893 and 1894, each one followed with original illustrations, some of which were made by author's father. Although the stories were written while living in Vermont, the author found inspiration in […]
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
"Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a novel that can be considered autobiography as it is based on the experiences of Mark Twain. The book wasn't written at once. The first part was written in the winter of 1872, the second part in the spring of 1875 and the final part in the summer of the […]
Mother Courage and Her Children
The play ''Mother Courage and her children'' is written in 12 scenes or part that are tagged with numbers but loosely connected in between. The plot is connected to a novel by Hans Jacob Grimmelshausen "Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus'' in which 30 years long war, that started in the 17th century, between Protestants and Catholics was described. […]
The Black Cat
In this story the author convincingly and precisely describes the human tendency to do harm with no real motive. Poe stated just the facts and does not question them in a moral sense. The story is written as a inner monologue of the storyteller. Summary The hero of this story was gentle and permissive as […]
The Fall of the House of Usher
The main theme of this novel "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a death of a beautiful women. Poe touched some border lines of science in which supernatural any mysterious events that cannot be explained interfere. There is symbolic in this novel. Death is a symbol of the dreams victory over reality; the […]
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The book starts with a polemic about analysis and analytics which the author associates with chess and playing cards. The plot begins when the author writes about Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin who he met in Paris. Because a series of circumstances he lost his fortune and the only luxury he had in life were books. […]
The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper is consisted of 33 chapters that are named shortly named and announce the theme of the chapter. It is actually an additional comment of the story teller in which we find out the faith of the characters after the novel is done. The novel has a short prologue in which […]
Puss in Boots
Puss in boots is a well-known story about the third and the youngest son who gets the worse part of the inheritance, almost nothing. That son got a cat for which was believed to be useless. In this fairytale the main character, Cat, presents the qualities of a younger son which are intelligence, bravery, and […]
The Flowers of Evil
The Flowers of Evil (French: Les Fleurs du mal) is a book of poems published in 1857. More or less all of the contemporary artist who judged "Madame Bovary" judged this book too. Baudelaire and his work were accused to be immoral and a threat to public morality. Charles Baudelaire was a great but yet […]
Oliver Twist
In the novel "Oliver Twist" we can read about the shocking destiny of Oliver Twist, a poor boy who lost his mother during birth. Through a realistic display we can see his miserable life in the orphanage and later on in the streets. The novel deals with a social problem, better said the growing parentless […]
The Sleeping Beauty
The sleeping beauty is a classical fairytale about a princess, a prince, an evil witch and how good always beats evil. The fairytale was first published under the name ‘'La Belle au bois dormant''. The Grimm brothers published it under the title ‘' Dornröschen''. Summary Once upon a time a king and a queen lived […]
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
For 33 years an old fisherman and his wife led a very poor life in a cottage on the seaside. The fisherman was fishing to provide food for him and his wife. One day he caught a gold fish. When he saw her in his net she talked in human voice. She begged him to […]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is satirical novel, because there is a large number of characters and a lot of events that extend through the extensive novel. The author of the novel gave the greatest attention to the adventures of the main character Huckleberry Finn. The theme of the novel are the adventures […]
Pippi Longstocking
In a Swedish city in a shabby house lived a very unusual girl. Her name was Pippi Longstocking. Her father was a sailor and his name was Efraim Longstocking. He bought the house so he could have a place to live in when he abandons the sea. There was an accident and a wave took […]
The Diary of a Young Girl
The diary of Anna Frank is one of the most shocking testimonies about anti-Semitism during the II. World War. A little girl Anna Frank received a diary on her 13. birthday and from the twelfth of June, 1942 until the first of August, 1944 she wrote down all of her experiences. Her diary, after being […]