Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Das grüne Buch; oder: Freiheit unter dem Schnee
Für wen es gedacht ist
You will love this if you enjoy historical novels with spies, secret meetings and big feelings, or if you like imperial Russia, poets and stage divas, and stories where love and politics pull the same people apart.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
Who fires a pistol at a stag in the middle of a royal hunt? In the opening chapters of The Green Book, a famous singer does, and that shot brings a bitter rivalry into the open. Mór Jókai, the Hungarian novelist, tells of St Petersburg in 1825, when talk of freedom runs under the snow. You get a story of conspiracy, love, flood and fear, built around a hidden register that names every rebel in Russia.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A shot at a stag starts a feudFree
- 2A spymaster wants the green book
- 3A roulette table hides a revolution
- 4A poet breaks the censor's red pencil
- 5The Czar has a secret daughter
- 6A flood shakes the city and its beliefs
- 7Love ties Pushkin to two girls
- 8Two couples and an empire's heir
- 9Freedom lies beneath the snow
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A shot at a stag starts a feud
The story opens in the Bjelostok forest. A rider follows a bloodied prisoner and gathers his frozen blood from the snow. Later, in St Petersburg, a royal hunt drives a stag toward patients returning from church.
A shot rings out at the gate of a park. A woman with reddish gold hair steps forward with a pistol in her hand. She is Zeneida Ilmarine, the Czar's favorite singer. Princess Maria Alexievna Ghedimin, who rides with the hunt, cries that the stag belongs to the emperor. Zeneida answers that the sick come first, then fires her last shot into the air.
The Princess hates Zeneida for reasons the hunt alone cannot explain. Bethsaba, a young Circassian girl, watches without understanding. Her guardian tells her she has seen the devil.
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Questions about Das grüne Buch; oder: Freiheit unter dem Schnee
What is The Green Book by Mór Jókai about?
It follows a secret society of nobles, officers and a famous singer who plot to bring freedom to imperial Russia in 1825, while the Czar's favorite hunts for the hidden book that lists every conspirator.
What is the green book in the novel?
It is the secret register of the conspiracy, kept in a chest hidden under a roulette table. It holds plans for a republic and, as the police fear, the names of the rebels.
Is The Green Book a true story?
It is a historical novel. Real people such as Pushkin, Czar Alexander and the Decembrists appear, and the 1825 uprising happened, but Jókai invents many scenes and characters to dramatize them.
Who is Zeneida Ilmarine?
She is a celebrated opera singer from Finland, favored by the Czar and Czarina. Her glittering parties hide the meetings of the conspirators, and she plays a double part with great skill.
Is The Green Book easy to follow?
Short chapters, vivid scenes and a lively narrator carry the reader along. Each episode, a stag hunt, a roulette game, a flood, is memorable and easy to picture, with clear heroes and rivals.