Tolstoy's life and creative path. The creative and life path of Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich

The book "Pippi Longstocking" is a description of the difficult life of a little girl named Pippi.

Pippi is an unusually extraordinary person. Pippi is only 9 years old, but despite the fact that Pippi is forced to live without her parents, she copes well. According to the book, Pippi's mother died, and dad became the king of some African tribe. Pippi lives in an old house with her horse and monkey.

Pippi is a red-haired, ugly girl who doesn't care what she looks like. Pippi wears a simple dress of incredible color and style, absolutely unsuitable not only for adults, but also for children.

Pippi's house is a terrible mess, she does whatever she wants, and sincerely doesn't understand why she can't, for example, roll out dough on the floor, walk backwards and sleep upside down.

Pippi has friends - Tommy and Annika. She is very strong and original. Pippi hates rules and sincerely does not understand how adults can live such a boring life.

Pippi lives as she pleases, fortunately there is no one to control her. Pippi constantly gets into funny stories and always comes out of them with dignity.

Pippi has practically no enemies. But there are people who hurt her in one way or another (for example, the thieves who tried to rob her). Pippi always defeats such individuals, punishes them in her own way, but always lets them go in peace.

Pippi is a very kind girl, who has essentially experienced a lot of troubles and misfortunes.

Pippi is a big dreamer, but those around her perceive her fantasies with misunderstanding. They consider her a liar, which really hurts her.

The story about Pippi includes several short stories. The book is very popular among children of several generations.

In my opinion,

Astrid Lindgren in her book wanted to show how confused the adult generation is with its problems, boundaries and rules of adult life. So much so that we force our children into our framework, thus depriving them of originality, originality and imagination. And how difficult it is in our lives for people who have managed to retain in themselves the qualities that Pippi possesses.

Video review

Summary: “Pippi Longstocking” - a modern fairy tale Astrid Lindgren composed a fairy tale evening after evening about the girl Pippi for her daughter Karin, who was sick at that time. The name for the main character, long and difficult to pronounce for a Russian person, was invented by the writer’s daughter herself. Summary of Pippi Longstocking This fairy tale turned sixty in 2015, and we present its summary. Pippi Longstocking, the heroine of this fantastic story, has been loved in our country since 1957. A little about the author Astrid Lindgren is the daughter of two Swedish farmers and grew up in a large and very friendly family. She settled the heroine of the fairy tale in a small, dull town, where life flows smoothly and nothing changes. The writer herself was an extremely active person. The Swedish Parliament, at its request and with the support of the majority of the population, adopted a law according to which it is forbidden to harm pets. The theme of the fairy tale and its summary will be presented below. Pippi Longstocking's main characters, Annika and Tommy, will also be featured. Besides them, we also love Baby and Carlson, who were created by the world famous writer. She received the most cherished award for every storyteller - the H.K. medal. Andersen. What Pippi and her friends look like Pippi is only nine years old. She is tall, thin and very strong. Her hair is bright red and glows with flame in the sun. The nose is small, potato-shaped, and covered with freckles. Summary of Pippi Long Stocking Chapter by Chapter Pippi walks in stockings of different colors and huge black shoes, which she sometimes decorates. Annika and Tommy, who became friends with Pippi, are the most ordinary, neat and exemplary children who want adventure. In the Villa "Chicken" (chapters I - XI) Brother and sister Tommy and Annika Settergegen lived opposite an abandoned house that stood in a neglected garden. They went to school, and then, after doing their homework, played croquet in their yard. They were very bored, and they dreamed of having an interesting neighbor. And now their dream came true: a red-haired girl who had a monkey named Mr. Nilsson settled in the “Chicken” villa. She was brought by a real sea ship. Her mother died a long time ago and looked at her daughter from the sky, and her dad, a sea captain, was washed away by a wave during a storm, and he, as Pippi thought, became a black king on a lost island. summary of Pippi Longstocking chapter by chapter very briefly For money , which the sailors gave her, and this was a heavy chest with gold coins, which the girl carried like a feather, she bought herself a horse, which she settled on the terrace. This is the very beginning of a wonderful story, its summary. Pippi Longstocking is a kind, fair and extraordinary girl. Meeting Pippi A new girl was walking down the street backwards. Annika and Tommy asked her why she was doing this. “That’s how they walk in Egypt,” the strange girl lied. And she added that in India they generally walk on their hands. But Annika and Tommy were not at all embarrassed by such a lie, because it was a funny invention, and they went to visit Pippi. summary of Pippi Longstocking main characters She baked pancakes for her new friends and treated them to glory, even though she broke one egg on your head. But she wasn’t confused, and immediately came up with the idea that in Brazil everyone smears eggs on their heads to make their hair grow faster. The whole fairy tale consists of such harmless stories. We will only recount a few of them, since this is a short summary. "Pippi Longstocking", a fairy tale full of various events, can be borrowed from the library. How Pippi surprises all the townspeople Pippi can not only tell stories, but also act very quickly and unexpectedly. A circus has come to town - this is a big event. She went to the show with Tommy and Annika. But during the performance she couldn’t sit still. Together with a circus performer, she jumped onto the back of a horse racing around the arena, then climbed under the circus dome and walked along a tightrope, she also put the strongest strongman in the world on his shoulder blades and even threw him into the air several times. They wrote about her in the newspapers, and the whole city knew what an unusual girl lived there. Only the thieves who decided to rob her did not know about this. It was a bad time for them! Pippi also saved the kids who were on the top floor of a burning house. Many adventures happen to Pippi on the pages of the book. This is just a summary of them. Pippi Longstocking is the best girl in the world. Pippi is getting ready to go (chapters I – VIII) In this part of the book, Pippi managed to go to school, take part in a school excursion, and punish a bully at the fair. This unscrupulous man scattered all his sausages from the old seller. But Pippi punished the bully and made him pay for everything. And in the same part, her dear and beloved dad returned to her. summary of peppy long stocking reviews He invited her to travel the seas with him. This is a completely quick retelling of the story about Pippi and her friends, a summary of “Pippi Longstocking” chapter by chapter. But the girl will not leave Tommy and Annika in sadness; she will take them with her, with the consent of their mother, to hot countries. On the island of the country of Veseliya (chapters I - XII) Before leaving for warmer climes, Pippi’s impudent and respectable gentleman wanted to buy her villa “Chicken” and destroy everything on it. Villa chicken Pippi quickly dealt with him. She also “put in a puddle” the harmful Miss Rosenblum, who gave out gifts, boring ones by the way, to what she considered the best children. Then Pippi gathered all the offended children and gave each of them a large bag of caramel. Everyone except the evil lady was satisfied. And then Pippi, Tommy and Anika went to the country of Merry. There they swam, caught pearls, dealt with the pirates and, full of impressions, returned home. This is a completely summary of Pippi Longstocking chapter by chapter. Very briefly, because it is much more interesting to read about all the adventures yourself. Reviews All parents who have children 4–5 years old assure that children listen with delight to stories about a girl who does everything the other way around. They almost learn her adventures by heart, many people like the illustrations and the quality of the publication. Anything is possible. We hope that those who are not familiar with the fantastic girl who sleeps with her feet on the pillow will be interested in the summary of “Pippi Longstocking.” Reviews say that children ask to read the book again and again.

PEPPIE STAYS INTO HER VILLA

On the outskirts of a very small Swedish town there was an old, neglected garden. There was an old house in this garden. Pippi Longstocking lived in this house. She was nine years old, and, imagine, she lived there all alone. She had neither a father nor a mother, but, frankly, this had its advantages: no one forced her to sleep just at the time when the game was best, and no one forced her to drink fish oil when she wanted to eat candy.
Before, Pippi had a father, and she loved him very much. Of course, she also once had a mother, but Pippi no longer remembered her at all. Mom died a long time ago, when Pippi was still a tiny girl, lying in a stroller and screaming so terribly that no one dared to approach her. Pippi thought that her mother now lived in heaven and through a small hole looked at her daughter from there. Therefore, Pippi often waved her hand and said every time:
- Don't be afraid, I won't disappear!
But Pippi remembered her father very well. He was a sea captain, and his ship plied the seas and oceans. Pippi was never separated from her father. But one day, during a strong storm, a huge wave washed him out to sea, and he disappeared. But Pippi was sure that one fine day her dad would return - she could not imagine that he had drowned. She decided that her father ended up on an island where many, many blacks lived, became their king and walked around every day with a golden crown on his head.
- My dad is a black king! Not every girl has such an amazing dad,” Pippi often repeated with visible pleasure. “And when my dad builds a boat, he will come for me and I will become a black princess.” Gay-hop! This will be great!
My father bought this old house, surrounded by a neglected garden, many years ago. He was going to settle here with Pippi when he grew old and could no longer sail the seas. But after dad disappeared into the sea, Pippi went straight to her villa to wait for his return. There was furniture in the rooms, and it seemed that everything had been specially prepared so that Pippi could live here. One quiet summer evening, Pippi said goodbye to the sailors on her father's ship. They loved Pippi so much, and Pippi loved them all so much.
“Goodbye, guys,” Pippi said and kissed each one on the forehead in turn. - Don't be afraid, I won't disappear!
She took only two things with her: a small monkey, whose name was Mr. Nielsen - she received it as a gift from her dad - and a large suitcase filled with gold coins. The sailors lined up on the deck and looked after the girl until she disappeared from sight. Pippi walked with a firm step and never looked back. Mr. Nielsen was sitting on her shoulder, and she was carrying a suitcase in her hand.
“Strange girl,” said one of the sailors when Pippi disappeared around the bend, and wiped away a tear.
He was right, Pippi really was a strange girl. What was most striking was her extraordinary physical strength, and there was no policeman on earth who could cope with her. She could lift a horse if she wanted, and, you know, she did it often. After all, Pippi had a horse, which she bought on the very day she moved into the villa. Pippi always dreamed of having a horse. The horse lived on her terrace. And when Pippi wanted to have a cup of coffee there after lunch, she, without thinking twice, took the horse out into the garden.
Next door to the villa there was another house, also surrounded by a garden. In this house lived a father, a mother and two cute little children - a boy and a girl. The boy's name was Tommy, and the girl's name was Anika. They were nice, well-mannered and obedient children. Tommy never begged anyone for anything and carried out all his mother’s instructions. Anika was not capricious when she didn’t get what she wanted, and she always looked so smart in her clean, neatly ironed cotton dresses. Tommy and Anika played together in their garden, but still they lacked a playmate, and they dreamed of him. At a time when Pippi was still sailing with her father on the ship, Tommy and Anika sometimes climbed onto the fence separating the villa’s garden from theirs and said:
- What a pity that no one lives in this house! It would be nice if someone with children could live here!
On that clear summer evening when Pippi first crossed the threshold of her villa, Tommy and Anika were not at home. They went to stay with their grandmother for a week. Therefore, they had no idea that someone had moved into the neighboring house. The next day after returning from their grandmother, they stood at the gate and looked out into the street, not yet knowing that a playmate was so close to them. And just at that moment when they were discussing what they should do, and did not know whether they would be able to start some kind of funny game, or whether the day would pass tediously, as always when they cannot come up with anything interesting, just at that moment The gate of the neighboring house opened and a little girl ran out into the street. This was the most amazing girl Tommy and Anika had ever seen.
Pippi Longstocking went for a morning walk. And this is what she looked like: her carrot-colored hair was braided into two tight braids that stuck out in different directions; the nose looked like a tiny potato, and besides, it was all speckled with freckles; White teeth sparkled in his large, wide mouth. She wanted her dress to be blue, but since she didn’t have enough blue material, she sewed red scraps into it here and there. On her thin, thin legs were long stockings, one brown and the other black. And her black shoes were twice too big. Dad bought them in South Africa for growing up, and Pippi never wanted to wear other shoes.
But when Tommy and Anika saw a monkey sitting on the shoulder of an unfamiliar girl, they simply froze in amazement. It was a little monkey, dressed in blue trousers, a yellow jacket and a white straw hat.

This is where Pippi met Tommy and Anika. Many funny stories happened to them. You will learn about some of their adventures in the following chapters.

PEPPIE PLAYS TAG WITH THE POLICE OFFICERS

Soon a rumor spread in a small town that a nine-year-old girl was living completely alone in an abandoned villa. And the adults of this town said that this could not continue. All children should have someone to raise them. All children must go to school and learn their multiplication tables. Therefore, the adults decided that this little girl should be sent to an orphanage. One afternoon, Pippi invited Tommy and Anika to her place for coffee and pancakes. She placed the cups right on the steps of the terrace. It was so sunny there, and the scent of flowers came from the flower beds. Mr. Nielsen climbed up and down the balustrade, and the horse pulled his muzzle from time to time to get a pancake.
– How wonderful life is! – said Pippi and stretched her legs.
Just at that moment the gate swung open and two policemen entered the garden.
- Ah! - Pippi exclaimed. -What a happy day! I love police officers more than anything in the world, apart from rhubarb cream, of course.
– And she moved towards the police, beaming with a happy smile.
– Are you the same girl who settled in this villa? – asked one of the policemen.
“But no,” answered Pippi. “I’m a little old lady and I live on the third floor in one of the houses on the other side of the city.
Pippi answered this way because she wanted to joke. But the police did not find this joke funny, they sternly told her to stop fooling around, and then informed her that kind people had decided to give her a place in an orphanage.
“And I already live in an orphanage,” Pippi answered.
– What kind of nonsense are you talking about! - the policeman cried. – Where is it located, your orphanage?
- Yes, right here. I am a child and this is my home. So this is an orphanage. And, as you can see, there is quite enough space here.
“Oh, dear girl, you don’t understand this,” said another policeman and laughed. – You must go to a real orphanage where you will be raised.
– Can you take a horse with you to that orphanage?
- Of course not! - the policeman answered.
“That’s what I thought,” Pippi said gloomily. - Well, what about the monkey?
- And you can’t have a monkey.
You understand this yourself.
- In that case, let others go to the orphanage, I’m not going there!
- But you need to go to school.
- Why should I go to school?
– To learn different things.
– What kind of things are these? – Pippi did not let up.
- Well, very different.
All sorts of useful things. For example, the multiplication table.
“I’ve been doing well without this table of respect for nine whole years now,” Pippi answered, “which means I’ll continue to live without it.”
- Well, think how unpleasant it will be for you if you remain such a know-nothing for the rest of your life! Imagine, you grow up big, and suddenly someone asks you the name of the capital of Portugal. And you won't be able to answer.
- Why can’t I answer? I’ll tell him this: “If you really need to know what the main city of Portugal is, then write directly to Portugal, let them explain it to you.”

“And you won’t be ashamed that you couldn’t answer yourself?”
“Perhaps,” said Pippi. “And I won’t be able to fall asleep for a long time that evening, I’ll just lie there and remember: well, really, what is the name of the main city of Portugal?” But I will soon be consoled,” here Pippi did a stand, walked on her hands and added, “because I was in Lisbon with dad.”
Then the first policeman intervened and said that Pippi should not imagine that she could do as she wanted, that she was ordered to go to an orphanage, and there was no more need to talk in vain. And he grabbed her hand. But Pippi immediately broke free and, lightly slapping the policeman on the back, shouted:
- I insulted you! Now you drive!
And before he had time to come to his senses, she jumped onto the balustrade of the terrace, and from there quickly climbed onto the second floor balcony.
The police did not at all want to climb up in this way. So they both rushed into the house and went up the stairs. But when they found themselves on the balcony, Pippi was already sitting on the roof. She climbed the tiles so deftly as if she were a monkey. In an instant, she found herself on the ridge of the roof, and from there she jumped onto the pipe.
The police sat on the balcony and scratched their heads in confusion. Tommy and Anika watched Pippi enthusiastically from the lawn.
- How fun it is to play tag! – Pippi shouted to the police. “How nice of you to come and play with me.”
After thinking for a minute, the police went to get a ladder, leaned it against the house, and one after another began to climb onto the roof. Slipping on the tiles and having difficulty balancing, they moved towards Pippi.
- Be bolder! - Pippi shouted to them.
But when the police almost crawled to Pippi, she, laughing and squealing, quickly jumped off the pipe and moved to another slope of the roof. On this side, next to the house, there was a tree.
- Look, I'm falling! - Pippi shouted and, jumping from the ledge, hung on a branch, swung on it once or twice, and then deftly slid down the trunk. Finding herself on the ground, Pippi ran around the other side of the house and set aside the ladder, along which the police climbed to the roof. The police got scared when Pippi jumped onto a tree. But they were simply horrified when they saw that the girl had carried away the ladder. Having become completely furious, they began to shout vying with each other for Pippi to immediately put the ladder in place, otherwise they would not talk to her like that.
- Why are you angry? – Pippi asked them reproachfully. “We’re playing tag, so why get angry in vain?”
The police were silent for a while, and finally one of them said embarrassedly:
“Listen, girl, be so kind as to put the ladder back so we can go down.”
“With pleasure,” Pippi answered and immediately put the ladder up to the roof. “And then, if you want, we’ll have some coffee and generally have some fun together.”

But the police turned out to be treacherous people. As soon as they stepped on the ground, they rushed to Pippi, grabbed her and shouted:
“Now you’re caught, you bad girl!”
“And now I don’t play with you anymore,” Pippi answered. – Those who cheat in the game, I don’t mess with. “And, grabbing both policemen by the belts, she dragged them out of the garden and into the street. There she released them. But the police could not come to their senses for a long time.
- One minute! – Pippi shouted to them and rushed as fast as she could into the kitchen. Soon she reappeared, holding a pancake in her hands. – Try it, please! True, they were a little burnt, but that doesn’t matter.
Then Pippi walked up to Tommy and Anika, who stood with their eyes wide open and just amazed. And the police rushed back to the city and told the people who sent them that Pippi was not suitable for the orphanage. The police, of course, concealed the fact that they were sitting on the roof. And the adults decided: if so, let this girl live in her own villa. The main thing is that she goes to school, but otherwise she is free to manage herself.
As for Pippi, Tommy and Anika, they had a great time that day. First they finished their coffee, and Pippi, having successfully finished fourteen pancakes, said:
– Still, these were some fake policemen: they were chatting something about an orphanage, about a table of respect and about Lisbon...
Then Pippi took the horse from the terrace into the garden, and the children began to ride. True, Anika was initially afraid of the horse. But when she saw how merrily Tommy and Pippi were jumping around the garden, she also decided. Pippi deftly sat her down, the horse ran along the path, and Tommy sang at the top of his lungs:

The Swedes are rushing thundering,
The fight will be hot!

In the evening, when Tommy and Anika lay down in their beds, Tommy said:
“But it’s great that Pippi came here to live.” Right, Anika?
- Well, of course, great!
– You know, I don’t even remember what we actually played before?
“We played croquet and stuff like that.” But how much more fun it is with Pippi!.. And then there’s a horse and a monkey! A?..

PEPPY GOES TO SCHOOL

Of course, both Tommy and Anika went to school. Every morning at exactly eight, holding hands, with textbooks in their bags, they hit the road.
It was precisely at this time that Pippi loved most of all to ride a horse, or dress up Mr. Nielsen, or do exercises, which consisted of standing straight on the floor, forty-three times in a row, without bending, as if she had swallowed a yard, she jumped up on place. Then Pippi sat down at the kitchen table and, in complete peace, drank a large cup of coffee and ate several cheese sandwiches.
Walking past the villa, Tommy and Anika looked longingly over the fence. They would much rather turn around now and spend the whole day with their new girlfriend! Now, if Pippi also went to school, it would at least not be so offensive.
- How fun it would be for us to return home, eh, Pippi? – Tommy once said.
“We would also go to school together,” Anika added.
The more the guys thought about Pippi not going to school, the sadder their hearts became. And in the end they decided to try to persuade her to go there with them.
“You can’t even imagine what a wonderful teacher we have,” Tommy said one day, looking slyly at Pippi. He and Anika came running to her after doing their homework.
– You don’t know how much fun we have at school! – Anika picked up, “if I wasn’t allowed to go to school, I would simply go crazy.”
Pippi, sitting on a low bench, washed her feet in a huge basin. She didn’t say anything in response and just started splashing so much that she splashed almost all the water around.
“And you don’t have to sit there for long, only until two o’clock,” Tommy began again.
“Of course,” Anika continued in his tone. - And besides, there are holidays. Christmas, Easter, summer...

Pippi thought about it, but was still silent. Suddenly she decisively poured the remaining water from the basin directly onto the floor, so that it wet Mr. Nielsen’s pants, who, sitting on the floor, was playing with the mirror.
“This is unfair,” Pippi said sternly, not paying the slightest attention to Mr. Nielsen’s anger or his water-soaked pants, “this is completely unfair, and I will not put up with it!”
- What's unfair? – Tommy was surprised.
– In four months it will be Christmas, and your Christmas holidays will begin. What will happen to me? – Pippi’s voice sounded sad. “I won’t have any Christmas holidays, not even the small ones,” she continued pitifully. – This needs to be changed. I'll go to school tomorrow.
Tommy and Anika clapped their hands in joy.
- Hooray! Hooray! So we will be at our gates at eight o'clock sharp.
“No,” said Pippi. - It's too early for me. Besides, I'll go there on horseback.
No sooner said than done. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, Pippi took her horse off the terrace, took it out into the garden and set off. A few minutes later, all the inhabitants of this town rushed to the windows to look at the little girl who was carried by a mad horse. In reality, everything was not like that. Pippi was just in a hurry to go to school. She galloped into the school yard, jumped to the ground, and tied her horse to a tree. Then the classroom door opened with such a bang that Tommy, Anika and their comrades jumped in their seats in surprise, and shouted at the top of her lungs: “Hello!” – waving his wide-brimmed hat.
– I hope I’m not late for the respect table?
Tommy and Anika warned the teacher that a new girl was coming to class, whose name was Pippi Longstocking. The teacher had already heard about Pippi. In the small town there was a lot of talk about her. And since the teacher was sweet and kind, she decided to do everything to make Pippi like it at school.
Without waiting for an invitation, Pippi sat down at an empty desk. But the teacher did not make any reprimand to her. On the contrary, she said very friendly:
- Welcome to our school, dear Pippi! I hope you enjoy your stay with us and that you learn a lot here.
“And I hope that I will have Christmas holidays,” answered Pippi. “That’s why I came here.” Justice comes first.
– Please tell me your full name. I'll put you on the list of students.

“My name is Peppilotta-Victualia-Rulgardina-Crusminta, daughter of Captain Ephraim Longstocking, “Thunderstorm of the Seas,” and now the Negro king. Strictly speaking, Pippi is a diminutive name. My dad thought Peppilotta took too long to say.
“I see,” said the teacher. “Then we’ll call you Pippi too.” Now let's see what you know. You are already a big girl and you can probably do a lot. Let's start with arithmetic. Please tell me, Pippi, how much it will be if you add five to seven.
Pippi looked at the teacher with bewilderment and dissatisfaction.
“If you don’t know this yourself, do you really think that I will count for you?” - she answered the teacher.
All the students' eyes widened in surprise. And the teacher patiently explained that they don’t answer like that at school, that they say “you” to the teacher and, when addressing her, they call her “miss.”
“Please forgive me,” said Pippi, embarrassed, “I didn’t know that and I won’t do it again.”
“I hope so,” said the teacher. “You didn’t want to count for me, but I’ll count for you: if you add five to seven, you get twelve.”
- Just think about it! - Pippi exclaimed. – It turns out that you can count it yourself. Why did you ask me?.. Oh, I said “you” again - forgive me, please.
And as punishment, Pippi herself pinched her ear hard.
The teacher decided not to pay any attention to this and asked the following question:
- Well, Pippi, now tell me, what is eight and four?
“I think sixty-seven,” Pippi answered.
“That’s not true,” said the teacher, “eight and four will be twelve.”
- Well, old lady, this is too much! You yourself just said that five and seven are twelve. There should be some kind of order at school too! And if you really want to do all these calculations, then you could go to your corner and count for good measure, and in the meantime we would go into the yard to play tag... Oh, I’m saying “you” again! Forgive me one last time. I'll try to behave better next time.
The teacher said that she was ready to forgive Pippi this time too. But now, obviously, it’s not worth continuing to ask her questions about arithmetic, she’d rather ask other children.
- Tommy, please solve this problem. Lisa had seven apples, and Axel had nine. How many apples did they have together?
“Yes, count it, Tommy,” Pippi suddenly intervened, “and, besides, tell me: why did Axel’s stomach hurt more than Lisa’s, and in whose garden did they pick these apples?”
Freken again pretended that she had not heard anything and said, turning to Anika:
- Well, Anika, now you count: Gustav went with his comrades on an excursion. They gave him one crown with him, and he returned with seven ores. How much money did Gustav spend?
“And I want to know,” said Pippi, “why did this boy waste so much money?” And what did he buy with it: lemonade or something else? And did he wash his ears well when getting ready for the excursion?
The teacher decided not to do arithmetic anymore today. She thought that perhaps Pippi's reading would go better. So she took out from the closet a piece of cardboard with a hedgehog drawn on it. Under the picture there was a large letter "Y".
- Well, Pippi, now I’ll show you an interesting thing. This is Yo-e-e-zhik. And the letter that is depicted here is called “Yo”.
- Well, yes? And I always thought that “Yo” was a big stick with three small ones across it and two fly specks on top. Tell me, please, what does a hedgehog have in common with fly specks?
The teacher did not answer Pippi, but took out another piece of cardboard, on which a snake was drawn, and said that the letter under the picture was called “3”.
- ABOUT!! When people talk about snakes, I always remember how I fought a giant snake in India. It was such a terrible snake that you can’t even imagine - fourteen meters long, and as angry as a wasp. Every day she devoured five adult Indians, and for a snack she feasted on two small children. And then one day she decided to feast on me. She wrapped herself around me, but I was not taken aback and hit her on the head with all my might. Bang! Here she hisses. And I said it again - bam! And then she - wow! Yes, yes, that's exactly how it was. A very scary story!..
Pippi took a breath, and the teacher, who by this time finally realized that Pippi was a difficult child, invited the whole class to draw something. “Probably, drawing will captivate Pippi, and she will at least sit quietly for a while,” the lady thought and handed out paper and colored pencils to the children.
“You can draw whatever you want,” she said and, sitting down at her table, began checking the notebooks. A minute later she looked up to watch the children drawing and discovered that no one was drawing, but everyone was looking at Pippi, who was lying face down drawing on the floor.
“Listen, Pippi,” said the lady with irritation, “why don’t you draw on paper?”
“I painted it all over a long time ago.” But the portrait of my horse did not fit on this tiny piece of paper. Now I'm just drawing the front legs, and when I reach the tail, I'll have to go out into the corridor.
The teacher thought for a minute, but decided not to give up.
“Now, children, stand up and we’ll sing a song,” she suggested.
All the children rose from their seats, all except Pippi, who continued to lie on the floor.
“Go ahead and sing, and I’ll rest a little,” she said, “otherwise, if I start singing, the glass will fly.”
But then the teacher’s patience ran out, and she told the children that they should all go out for a walk in the school yard, and she needed to talk to Pippi alone. As soon as all the children left, Pippi got up from the floor and went to the teacher's table.
“You know what, Miss,” she said, “I’m thinking this: I was very interested in coming here and seeing what you’re doing here.” But I don’t feel like going here anymore. And with the Christmas holidays, let it be as it will be. There are too many apples, hedgehogs and snakes in your school for me. My head was spinning. You, miss, I hope you won’t be upset by this?
But the teacher said that she was very upset, and most of all because Pippi did not want to behave properly.
- Any girl will be kicked out of school if she behaves like you, Pippi.
- How, did I behave badly? – Pippi asked in surprise. “Honestly, I didn’t notice it,” she added sadly. It was impossible not to feel sorry for her, because no girl in the world could be as sincerely upset as she was.

Pippi was silent for a minute, and then said, stammering:
- You see, miss, when your mother is an angel, and your father is a black king, and you yourself have sailed the seas all your life, you don’t know how to behave at school among all these apples, hedgehogs and snakes.
The Freken told Pippi that she understood this, that she was no longer angry with her and that Pippi would be able to come to school again when she was a little older. At these words, Pippi beamed with happiness and said:
– You, miss, are amazingly sweet. And here’s a gift for you, miss, from me.
Pippi took a small, elegant golden bell out of her pocket and placed it on the table in front of the teacher. The teacher said that she could not accept such an expensive gift from her.
- No, you must, miss, you must! - Pippi exclaimed. “Otherwise I’ll come to school again tomorrow, and it won’t give anyone any pleasure.”
Then Pippi ran out into the schoolyard and jumped on her horse. All the children surrounded Pippi, everyone wanted to pat the horse and watch Pippi ride out of the yard.
– I remember going to school in Argentina, so it was a school! - Pippi said and looked at the guys. - If only you could get there! There, three days after the Christmas holidays, Easter holidays begin. And when Easter ends, then summer begins three days later. The summer holidays end on the first of November, and here, however, you have to work hard, because the Christmas holidays begin only on the eleventh. But in the end it can be dealt with because in Argentina they don't give lessons. In Argentina, it is strictly forbidden to prepare home lessons. True, sometimes it happens that some Argentine boy secretly climbs into the closet and, so that no one sees, learns a little homework. But his mother will give him a hard time if she notices this. They don't teach arithmetic there at all, and if some boy accidentally knows what five and seven are and tells the teacher about it, she will put him in a corner for the whole day. Reading is done there only on free days and only if there are books to read, but usually no one has such books...
– What are they doing there at school? – the little boy asked in amazement.
“They eat sweets,” answered Pippi. – There is a candy factory near the school. So, a special pipe was led from her directly into the classroom, and therefore the children do not have a minute of free time - just have time to chew.
– What does the teacher do? – the other girl did not let up.
“Silly,” answered Pippi, “the teacher there picks up candy papers and makes candy wrappers.” Don't you think that the guys themselves deal with candy wrappers there? No, pipes! The kids there don’t even go to school themselves, but send their younger brothers... Well, hello! – Pippi shouted joyfully and waved her big hat. - And you yourself somehow count how many apples Axel had. You won't see me here any time soon...
And Pippi noisily drove out of the gate. The horse galloped so fast that stones flew from under its hooves and the window panes rattled.

Translated from Swedish by L. Lungina.
Drawings by E. Vedernikov.

Pippi Longstocking is one of Astrid Lindgren's most fantastic heroines. She does whatever she wants. She sleeps with her feet on the pillow and her head under the blanket, and when returning home, she backs away all the way, because she doesn’t want to turn around and walk straight. But the most amazing thing about her is that she is incredibly strong and agile, although she is only nine years old. She carries in her arms her own horse, which lives in her house on the veranda, defeats the famous circus strongman, scatters aside a whole company of hooligans who attacked a little girl, deftly sends out from her own house a whole squad of policemen who came to her to forcibly take her to orphanage, and with lightning speed throws two thugs who decided to rob her onto the closet. However, in the reprisals of P.D. there is neither malice nor cruelty. She is extremely generous with her defeated enemies. She treats the disgraced policemen with freshly baked buns. And she generously rewards the embarrassed thieves, who work off their invasion of someone else's house by dancing with P.D. twist all night with gold coins, this time honestly earned by them, and cordially treats them with bread, cheese, ham, cold veal and milk . Moreover, P.D. is not only extremely strong, she is also incredibly rich and powerful, because her mother is an angel in heaven, and her father is a black king. P.D. herself lives with a horse and a monkey, Mr. Nilsson, in an old dilapidated house, where she throws truly royal feasts, rolling out dough with a rolling pin right on the floor. It costs P.D. nothing to buy “one hundred kilos of candy” and a whole toy store for all the children in the city. In fact, P.D. is nothing more than a child’s dream of strength and nobility, wealth and generosity, power and selflessness. But for some reason adults don’t understand P.D. The town pharmacist simply becomes furious when P. D. asks him what to do when his stomach hurts: chew a hot cloth or pour cold water on himself. And Tommy and Annika’s mother says that P.D. doesn’t know how to behave when she’s alone at a party and swallows a whole butter cake. But the most amazing thing about P.D. is her bright and wild imagination, which manifests itself both in the games that she comes up with and in those amazing stories about different countries where she visited with her dad, a sea captain, which she now tells his friends.

"Pippi Longstocking" summary can be read chapter by chapter in 20 minutes.

"Pippi Longstocking" summary by chapter

How Pippi settled in the Chicken Villa

On the outskirts of a small Swedish town there is a neglected garden. And in the garden there is a house blackened by time. This is the house where Pippi Longstocking lives. She was nine years old, but she lives there all alone. She has neither a father nor a mother, and, frankly, this even has its advantages - no one makes her go to bed...

Mom died a long time ago, when Pippi was still lying in the stroller and screaming so terribly that no one dared to approach her. Pippi is sure that her mother now lives in heaven and looks at her from there. That's why Pippi often waves her hand and says every time:

Don't be afraid, mom, I won't get lost!

But Pippi remembers her father very well. He was a sea captain, his ship plied the seas and oceans, and Pippi was never separated from her father. But then one day, during a strong storm, a huge wave washed him out to sea, and he disappeared. But Pippi was sure that one fine day her dad would return; she could not imagine that he had drowned. She decided that her father ended up on an island where blacks live and became king. Pippi was very proud of this, because she would be a black princess!

My father bought this old house, surrounded by a neglected garden, many years ago. He planned to settle here with Pippi when he grew old and could no longer drive ships. But after dad disappeared into the sea, Pippi went straight to her villa “Chicken” to wait for his return. There was furniture in the rooms, utensils hung in the kitchen - it seemed that everything had been specially prepared so that Pippi could live here. One quiet summer evening, Pippi said goodbye to the sailors on her father's ship. They all loved Pippi so much, and Pippi loved them all so much that it was very sad to leave.

She took only two things with her: a small monkey (Mr. Nilsson was a gift from dad) and a large suitcase filled with gold coins.

The sailors thought Pippi was a strange girl. What amazed them most was her extraordinary physical strength, and there is no policeman on earth who could cope with her. She could jokingly lift the horse... which she bought on the very day she moved into her villa. Pippi always dreamed of a horse. The horse lives on her terrace. And when Pippi wants to have a cup of coffee there after lunch, she, without hesitation, takes the horse out into the garden.

Next door to the villa “Chicken” lives a family with two children. The boy's name is Tommy, and the girl's name is Annika - well-mannered and obedient, neat children. Tommy and Annika played together in their garden, but still they missed the children's company, and they dreamed of finding a playmate. At a time when Pippi was still sailing with her father across the seas and oceans, Tommy and Annika sometimes climbed into the garden of the Chicken Villa and dreamed of a family with children settling there.

On that clear summer evening, when Pippi first crossed the threshold of her villa, Tommy and Annika were away. Mom sent them to stay with their grandmother for a week. Therefore, they did not know that someone had moved into the neighboring house.

Pippi Longstocking was going for a morning walk. This is what she looked like: her carrot-colored hair was braided into two tight braids that stuck out in different directions; the nose looked like a tiny potato, and besides, it was speckled with freckles; White teeth sparkled in his large, wide mouth. She was wearing a blue dress, but since she apparently didn’t have enough blue material, she sewed red patches into it here and there. She pulled long stockings of different colors onto her very thin and thin legs: one was brown and the other was black. And the huge black shoes seemed about to fall off. Dad bought them for her to grow in South Africa, and Pippi never wanted to wear others.

When Tommy and Annika saw a monkey sitting on the shoulder of an unfamiliar girl, they simply froze in amazement. The little monkey was dressed in blue trousers, a yellow jacket and a white straw hat.

Tommy and Annika kept their eyes on her, but she disappeared around the bend. However, the girl soon returned, but now she was already walking backwards (she was too lazy to turn around when she decided to return home.

Pippi invited them to have breakfast with her, and they happily agreed. Then they met the monkey Nilsson and the horse Pippi. The children could not understand why the horse lived on the terrace and not in the stable, as Pippi lives without her parents.

The children entered the kitchen. (...) Pippi took three eggs from the basket and, throwing them over her head, broke one after the other. The first egg flowed right onto her head and covered her eyes. But she managed to deftly catch the other two in a saucepan.

“I’ve always been told that eggs are very good for your hair,” she said, rubbing her eyes. - You will now see how quickly my hair will begin to grow. Hear, they are already creaking. In Brazil, no one goes out into the street without thickly smearing egg on their head. I remember there was one old man there, so stupid, he ate all the eggs instead of pouring them on his head. And he became so bald that when he left the house, there was a real commotion in the city, and they had to call police cars with loudspeakers to restore order...

Pippi spoke and at the same time picked out an eggshell that had fallen into it from the saucepan. Then she took off the long-handled brush that was hanging on a nail and began to beat the dough with it so hard that it splattered all over the walls. She was making pancakes. When the pancake was baked, Pippi threw it across the kitchen straight onto the plate standing on the table.

Eat! - she shouted. - Eat quickly before it gets cold.

Tommy and Annika really liked the pancakes. Then Pippi invited her new friends into the living room, which only had a chest of drawers. Pippi showed Tommy and Annika all the treasures - rare bird eggs, strange shells and multi-colored sea pebbles, carved boxes, elegant mirrors in silver frames, beads and many other things that Pippi and her father bought during their travels around the world. Pippi gave Tommy a dagger with a mother-of-pearl handle, and Annika a box with many, many snails carved on the lid. In the box there was a ring with a green stone.

Tommy and Annika went home and looked forward to their next meeting with their new friend.

How Pippi gets into a fight

The next morning, Tommy and Annika went to Pippi, they played “dealers”. The game was to carefully look around and find something. Tommy and Annika couldn't find anything, but Peppy found a rusty tin can and an empty spool in the grass. Her new friends could not imagine how such finds could be used. And Pippi quickly found a use for them.

(...) Just at that moment, the gate in the fence surrounding one of the houses opened, and the girl Ville ran out into the street. She looked extremely frightened, and this is not surprising - five boys were chasing her.

The boys surrounded her and pressed her against the fence. They had a very advantageous position for attack. All five immediately took a boxing stance and began beating the girl. She began to cry and raised her hands to protect her face.

When the boys saw Pippi, they doubled over with laughter. All the boys immediately surrounded Pippi, and Ville, wiping away her tears, quietly stepped aside and stood next to Tommy.

No, just look at her hair! - Bengt did not let up. - Red, like fire. And the shoes, the shoes! Hey, lend me one - I was just about to go boating, but didn’t know where to get one!

And all five boys began to jump around Pippi and tease her.

And Pippi stood in a ring of raging children and laughed merrily, which no one expected. And when one of the boys pushed her, she threw him into the air so high that he hung on the branch of a birch tree growing nearby. Then she grabbed the other boy and threw him onto another branch. She threw the third one at the gate of the villa. The fourth one was thrown over the fence straight into the flowerbed. And the last one, the fifth one, she squeezed into a toy stroller standing on the road. Pippi, Tommy, Annika and Ville silently looked at the boys, who were apparently speechless from amazement.

So Pippi showed that five boys should not attack a little defenseless girl.

Pippi waited a little, then took a tin can in one hand, a spool in the other, and left, accompanied by Tommy and Annika. When the children returned to Pippi's garden, they resumed the dillector game.

Tommy pulled out from the hollow a small leather-bound notebook with a silver pencil.

Annika found a red coral necklace under a tree stump. The brother and sister even opened their mouths in surprise and decided that from now on they would always be dealers.

Suddenly Pippi remembered that she only went to bed this morning because she had been playing with a ball and she immediately wanted to sleep. She always slept with her feet on the pillow and her head under the blanket.

Annika and Tommy went home, they were happy that Pippi appeared in their lives, who knew how to turn any event into a game (she even ran tag with the police when they came to take her to the orphanage and they admitted that “Pippi is not suitable for orphanage").

Pippi also failed to study at school: she did not understand how to behave at school.

Tommy and Annika had the most fun when they went to the circus with Pippi. The girl surprised all the spectators with how skillfully she rode a horse and fearlessly performed tricks on a rope. Real triumph and love from the town's residents came to Pippi after defeating the pompous strongman Adolf.

How Pippi saves two kids

(...) In the small town of Pippi, a fire started on the main square in the tallest building. A fire truck raced down the street. And two girls on the sidewalk, who at first thought it was a lot of fun to watch the fire, suddenly began to cry - they were afraid that their house would catch fire. Soon a huge crowd gathered in the square in front of the skyscraper. The police tried to disperse it because the fire could have spread to neighboring houses. Flames were already shooting out of the windows of the skyscraper. Firefighters continued to bravely fight the fire. And suddenly the people standing in the square froze with horror. The attic window right under the roof opened, and two little boys appeared in it. The unfortunate boys cried and begged for help.

“We can’t get out of here,” the older boy shouted, “someone lit a fire on the stairs!”

The eldest was five years old, his brother was a year younger, and they were alone at home.

The crowd was worried about the kids; the firemen's ladder did not reach the attic.

Pippi decided to save the children and asked for a rope. In front of the skyscraper, a tall tree grew, its upper branches were at the level of the attic windows. Pippi jumped off the horse and, running up to the tree, tightly tied the rope to Mr. Nilsson's tail.

Mr. Nilsson climbed along the smooth trunk to the crown, and threw the rope onto the branch.

Pippi found a long board. Grasping the rope with her free hand and resting her feet on the trunk, she began to quickly and deftly climb up. People in the square stopped crying in surprise. Having reached the crown and placing the board on a fork in the branches, she carefully began to move it towards the window. Finally, the board reached the window, laid its end on the windowsill and formed a kind of bridge between the tree and the burning house. The people in the square were silent; due to tension, no one could utter a word. And Pippi walked along the board, to the attic, took both boys in her arms and moved back along the board.

Now we'll have a little fun. Balancing on a board with you is like dancing on a wire.

Pippi safely reached the tree with the boys and lowered them from the tree.

Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! - shouted all the people standing in the square.

How Pippi gets shipwrecked

(...) Pippi, Tommy, Annika, the horse and Mr. Nilsson went to a desert island. Pippi carried the boat, holding it with outstretched arms above her head. She loaded a huge sack and a tent onto the horse's back.

What's in the bag? - asked Tommy.

Food, weapons and blankets, and even an empty bottle,” Pippi explained. “I think it’s better for us to suffer a convenient shipwreck for the first time.” When I was shipwrecked before, I shot some antelope or llama and ate raw meat, but we won’t succeed, because there are hardly any antelopes or llamas on this island, and it would be simply ridiculous to die of hunger there.

Why did you take the empty bottle? - Annika was surprised.

Haven't you ever heard of bottle mail? - Pippi was surprised. - They write a note, ask for help, seal it in a bottle and throw it into the sea. And then it falls straight into the hands of those who are supposed to save you...

Soon the guys saw a small lake ahead, in the middle of which a small island could be seen. The sun just peeked out from behind the clouds and warmed the young greenery.

Wonderful! - Pippi exclaimed, - perhaps this is the most comfortable uninhabited island I have ever seen.

Pippi quickly lowered the boat into the water, took the bag and tent off the horse and put it all on the bottom of the boat. Annika, Tommy and Mr. Nilsson sat in the boat, and Pippi walked up to the horse and patted it on the back.

My dear horse, I’m very sorry, but I can’t put you in the boat,” she said. - I hope you can swim. It's very simple. Look, horse, I'll show you now.

With these words, Pippi threw herself into the water in her dress and swam away.

Swimming is very pleasant, honestly. And if you want to have fun, you can play whale. Look, I'll teach you now.

Pippi took a mouthful of water, lay down on her back and released the water in a fountain. It was difficult to tell by the horse's appearance whether she found this game funny, but when Pippi jumped into the boat, took the oars and set sail, the horse also entered the water and swam. True, she did not play whale. (...)

When the boat approached the island, Pippi acted as if they were really shipwrecked. She saved first the food, and then her friends. The monkey and the horse climbed ashore on their own. After some time, Pippi decided that it was time to put up a tent.

(...) Soon a tent had already been pitched on the high bank. Near the tent, Pippi made a fireplace out of large stones and quickly gathered dry branches.

Soon a cheerful fire began to blaze, and Tommy said that he had never felt so comfortable.

Pippi brewed coffee over the fire and poured it into cups. The guys sat around the fire, drank coffee, ate sandwiches and felt very happy. Mr. Nilsson perched on Pippi's shoulder and ate with everyone, and from time to time the horse poked its muzzle into someone's back and immediately received a loaf of bread or a lump of sugar.

Pippi remembered how she sailed on the southern seas, and began to sing a sailor's song in a hoarse voice. The children found it scary and wonderful at the same time. Tommy and Pippi decided that they would become sea robbers.

(...) “Wonderful,” Pippi picked up. - Thunderstorm of the Caribbean - that's what you and I will be, Tommy. We will take gold, jewelry, diamonds from everyone, we will set up a hiding place in some grotto on an uninhabited island of the Pacific Ocean, we will hide all our treasures there...

And I? - Annika asked plaintively. - I don’t want to become a sea robber. What will I do alone?

“You will still swim with us,” Pippi reassured her. - You will wipe the dust from the piano in the wardroom.

The fire went out.

“Perhaps it’s time to go to bed,” said Pippi. She lined the floor of the tent with spruce wood and covered it with several thick blankets.

Three guys and Mr. Nilsson were lying in a tent, covered with blankets. The water quietly splashed against the shore.

It was dark in the tent, as if in a sack, and Annika, just in case, held Pippi’s hand - that way she felt safer. Rain is coming. Drops drummed on the roof of the tent, but inside it was warm and dry, and the sound of the rain pleasantly lulled me to sleep. Pippi jumped out of the tent to throw another blanket over the horse. The horse stood under a tree with a very thick crown, so the rain did not bother it either.

How good we feel! - Tommy whispered when Pippi returned.

Still would! - Pippi responded. - Look what I found under the stone: three chocolates.

A few minutes later, Annika was already asleep, although her mouth was still full of chocolate. She never let go of Pippi's hand.

“We forgot to brush our teeth,” said Tommy and also fell asleep.

When Tommy and Annika woke up, Pippi was no longer in the tent. The children looked outside. The sun was shining and Pippi had already lit a fire: she was frying ham and making coffee.

With all my heart I wish you happiness and a happy Easter,” she said when she saw Tommy and Annika.

“But Easter is long past,” said Tommy.

Of course,” Pippi agreed, “and you save my wishes for next year.”

The smell of grilled ham and fresh coffee whetted my appetite. All three sat around the fire, legs crossed, and each received a piece of ham, covered in egg, and potatoes. Then they drank coffee and gingerbread. Everyone agreed that they had never eaten such a delicious breakfast in their lives.

Pippi agreed, but said that it would be even better if she managed to catch fish for lunch. She quickly built a homemade fishing rod. Soon a perch swam up to her, but she did not catch it. I decided to cook pork and pancakes for lunch, which made Tommy and Annika very happy. Then she suggested swimming. The water was very cold. Pippi suggested diving into the water, swinging on a rope that she tied to a tree.

(...) At first it was difficult for Tommy and Annika to decide to plop into the water from such a height, but it looked so tempting that in the end they finally dared. And once you slipped off the rope, you wanted to do it all your life, because sliding yourself turned out to be even more interesting than watching from the outside. Mr. Nilsson also wanted to participate. He very deftly climbed down the rope, but at the very last minute, when he had to let go of the end and flop into the water, he changed his mind and quickly climbed up. Then Pippi realized that she could sit on a plank and slide it down a steep cliff straight into the water. And it turned out to be even more fun, because every time a whole fountain of spray rose up.

Pippi splashed into the water with an unimaginable splash, and only her two red pigtails fluttered to the surface. When the guys had plenty of fun, they decided to explore the island. All three mounted the horse, and it ran forward at a steady trot. They raced up and down the slopes, made their way through bushes and thickets, galloped through swamps and across beautiful green lawns full of wildflowers. Pippi kept the pistol cocked and shot into the air from time to time, and then the horse reared up in fear.

“I killed a lion,” she joyfully declared... “I would like this island to be ours forever,” Pippi said when the guys returned to their camp and began baking pancakes. Tommy and Annika wanted it too. (...)

The children enjoyed their lunch. Evening has come. They went to bed.

In the morning, the guys sadly remembered that it was time to return home. And then they discovered that the boat was missing. Annika was so upset that she started crying. Pippi had to resort to bottle mail.

The letter in the bottle was thrown into the water, but it got stuck near the shore. The children were waiting for saviors, but they still weren’t there. Pippi got angry and suddenly remembered that she herself hid the boat during the rain. They sailed home.

Mr. and Mrs. Settergren arrived home half an hour before the children. Tommy and Annika were nowhere to be seen, but in the mailbox they found a piece of paper that said:

“Just don’t think that your children died or disappeared forever, but they won’t suffer a big shipwreck and will soon return home with best regards to Pippi.”