Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Den ganzen Fluss entlang
Für wen es gedacht ist
Readers who enjoy Victorian domestic drama, secrets inside a marriage, seaside and country settings, and old houses with ghosts in the corners. It also suits anyone who likes a love story told with warmth and sharp social humour.
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All Along the River is a novel by M. E. Braddon, a writer who filled her shelves with popular fiction in the Victorian years. It follows a young wife in a Cornish cottage, a husband far away in Burma, and a neighbour whose charm is hard to resist. Braddon sets her tale along the river between Lostwithiel and Fowey, in a country of wet lanes, red cattle, old manor houses and village gossip.
The book gives you a household drama, a love story for a second pair of lovers, a feud over a footpath, and a long journey from Cornwall to the Italian coast and on to Rome. It also gives you a close study of a marriage in which one partner holds something back. Braddon pays attention to small things: a letter, a dance card, a dress, a cup of tea, a telegram form tucked in a drawer.
You will meet people who are easy to picture, from the warm and shrewd servant Tabitha to the pompous mill owner Vansittart Crowther. Let us begin with a rainy November afternoon and the letter that sets everything moving.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A letter from Burma and a walk in the rainFree
- 2A shy wife slowly befriends a peer
- 3The night of the Hunt Ball
- 4The colonel comes home to a changed house
- 5Allegra brings life, and Glenaveril shows its manners
- 6A birth, a fever, and a feud over a footpath
- 7A yacht in the moonlight and a sailor in love
- 8The slander and the trip to London
- 9South to the sun, and how the story is told
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A letter from Burma and a walk in the rain
The story opens on a wet November day at Trelasco, a Cornish village near Fowey. Isola Disney, twenty years old, waits at the window of the Angler's Nest for the postman. When he comes, she tears open a letter from her husband, Major Martin Disney. He is with his regiment in Burma, and he writes that he cannot return for six months, perhaps a year.
Isola is bitterly disappointed. She has been married just over a year, and the doctors forbade her to go with him. Braddon shows her small world in loving detail: the Persian cat called Shah, the fox terrier Tim, the cottage piano, the books of Keats and Shelley. She refuses her husband's suggestion to send for his young sister, since she wants him and nobody else.
To walk off her gloom, Isola climbs a wild hill above the river and passes the gardens of the Mount, the old manor house of Lord Lostwithiel. She has always imagined it as a palace of sleeping beauty, since its owner almost never lives there. A storm breaks, and she is soaked and three miles from home.
A tall, pale man with dark eyes offers her shelter. He is Lord Lostwithiel himself, the only nobleman the village has. He leads her to his great library, with its two carved fireplaces and its walls of books, and his housekeeper Mrs. Mayne serves tea. He talks easily about ghosts, about Dinan where Isola grew up, and about the loneliness of the Cornish winter.
He sends her home in his carriage and calls the next morning to ask after her health. Isola thinks the matter is closed, but Braddon plants the first thread of the whole novel in this courteous encounter.
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Questions about Den ganzen Fluss entlang
What is All Along the River about?
It tells of a young Cornish wife, Isola Disney, whose husband is posted to Burma. A charming neighbour, Lord Lostwithiel, enters her lonely life. When her husband comes home, the marriage meets doubt, gossip and a long journey to Italy.
Who is Lord Lostwithiel in All Along the River?
He is the thirteenth baron and owner of the Mount, an old manor near Fowey. He is clever, well travelled and fond of his yacht the Vendetta. Neighbours talk about him constantly, and his brother John also appears in the book.
Where is All Along the River set?
Most of it takes place near Fowey and Lostwithiel in Cornwall, along the river that gives the book its name. Later chapters move to San Remo on the Italian Riviera and to Rome, with scenes in Genoa and Venice mentioned along the way.
Who wrote All Along the River and when?
M. E. Braddon wrote it in the late Victorian period. It is a work of fiction, not a true story, though it draws on real places and everyday customs such as hunt balls, parish gossip and winter trips to the Mediterranean.
Is All Along the River worth reading?
It suits readers who enjoy a clear story, vivid settings, lively secondary characters and a second love story beside the main drama. Short scenes, plenty of dialogue and warm humour about village life make it easy to follow.