Madame Butterfly
Author: first_name: John Luther
last_name: Long
Language: English
Year: 1895

Madame Butterfly is the story of the young Japanese girl Cho-Cho San, who marries a flighty American naval officer, and is thenceforth outcast from her relatives. Anxiously she awaits the return of her beloved husband, but when he finally anchors in the harbour, Cho-Cho San does not get the happy ending she was hoping for.<br><br>
This short story by John Luther Long has inspired Giacomo Puccini to write the opera of the same name. (Introduction by Availle)