Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Karl Grier
Für wen es gedacht ist
Readers who like early science romance, psychic mysteries with a love triangle, and an old-fashioned narrator who chats, digresses and sets his friends in peril across London, New York and the Italian lakes.
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What if a boy could sit in a cane chair in India and watch a bandit gang plan a raid in a distant wood? Karl Grier, a Scottish-German child on a Darjeeling tea estate, discovers that gift in childhood. A journalist friend records his life like a case history. He calls the gift telegnomy, or far-knowing. It lets Karl see and hear events at great distances. The tale mixes adventure, early science talk and a love story with real danger.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A child sees a raid from afarFree
- 2The sea and the rescue of Constantine
- 3Oxford and the first vision of Maggie
- 4Hooper tests the gift
- 5The narrator joins the plot
- 6Maggie's story and the threat
- 7Five years on, the other woman
- 8Steindal's punishment and the plan
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A child sees a raid from afar
The narrator introduces himself as the biographer of his friend Karl Grier. Karl has a sixth sense, which the two later name telegnomy, or far-knowing.
Karl grows up near Darjeeling, where his father grows tea. He hears four languages at home and understands the feeling inside every sound, even the cries of animals.
At six he promises to think of his playmate Maggie Hutchinson until bedtime. That evening he sits very still with a thin trickle of blood from one nostril. He then describes hill men planning to drug the watchmen, kill her father and carry off the wages on nine ponies. His Highland father half believes in second sight and rides to the police. The gang is taken, and the ponies are found just as described.
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Questions about Karl Grier
What is Karl Grier about?
It follows Karl Grier, a young man born with a sixth sense called telegnomy that lets him see and hear events far away. His friend tells how the gift saves lives and then endangers him and the women who love him.
What does telegnomy mean in Karl Grier?
Telegnomy means far-knowing. It is the name Karl and his friend give to his faculty of seeing and hearing distant events, which they compare to wireless telegraphy and magnetic induction rather than to ghosts.
Who is Maggie Hutchinson?
Maggie is Karl's childhood friend from Darjeeling and later a gifted violinist. She shares his link across great distances, which draws her into the danger around Constantine and Steindal.
Who wrote Karl Grier and when?
Louis Tracy wrote it in the Victorian and Edwardian era. He was a British journalist and novelist who died in 1928. The story mixes mystery, romance and the science talk of its day.
Is Karl Grier easy to read?
It has a chatty narrator, short chapters and brisk scenes set in India, Oxford, London and Italy. Its lively asides and clear turns of plot make it pleasant to follow.