Summary of Giacomo Puccini. Cio-Cio-san (Madam Butterfly)

CHIO-CHIO-SAN (MADAME BUTTERFLY) Opera in two acts (three scenes) Libretto by L. Illik and D. Giacosa Characters: Chio-Cio-san (Madame Butterfly) Suzuki, the maid Cio-Cio-san Pinkerton, Lieutenant of the American Navy Cat, his wife Sharples,

Summary “The Seagull named Jonathan Livingston” Bach

A fishing net is thrown with a bait net, and a flock of seagulls flies “to steal food by cunning or force.” Only one seagull named Jonathan Livingston makes his training flights all alone.

“Fire” Barbusse in brief summary

“War is declared!” The first world. “Our company is in reserve.” “Our age, we are all of different age, our regiment is a reserve, it was consistently supplemented by reinforcements – then the personnel

Summary The Gymnasists Garin-Mikhailovsky

N. G. Garin-Mikhailovsky The gymnasiums It is in this part of the narrative that the main circle of the main character’s friends is formed (the company consisting of Kartashev, Kornev, Dolby, Berendi, Lario and

Summary of the “Eagle Patron” of Saltykov-Shchedrin

“Poets write a lot about the eagles in verse, and always with praise, so if they want to sing in the verses of a policeman, for example, they surely compare it to the eagle.”

Summary Man from the restaurant

IS Shmelev The Man from the Restaurant After the passage of time, Yakov Sofronych realized: it all started with the suicide of Krivoy, their tenant. Before that, he quarreled with Skorokhodov and promised to

Summary “Pretty Vanyusha you walked a lot”

NA Nekrasov, the poet paid great attention to children: he dedicated his poems to them. In the light came his works such as “Poems dedicated to Russian children” (1867, 1870), “Shkolnik” (1856), “Lamentations of

Summary “Wallenstein”

The action takes place in the modern author of the play of Germany. The plot unfolds for two years. Drama is preceded by the epigraph of Hippocrates, which in the Russian translation reads: “What

Summary of the Viper of Tolstoy

The work has a subtitle “A Tale of a Girl”. The writer shows three stages in her life: staying in the parental home, the war period and her future after the war. The main

Summary “The war does not have a woman’s face” Aleksievich

The novel is collected from the voices of real women. They say that their destinies are entwined with the war. Among the voices of the living is the author’s excited comment. The idea that
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