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Resumen de Las carreras de Frank Merriwell
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Readers who enjoy sports stories, college pranks, fair play and clever heroes will feel at home here. It suits anyone who likes a fast plot, a loyal band of friends and villains who scheme in the dark.
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Frank Merriwell's Races is a college adventure by Burt L. Standish, a pen name used for the dime-novel series about Frank Merriwell, a Yale student who excels at every sport and keeps his honor in every fight. This volume follows him through one busy spring, from a horse race in Connecticut to a rowing contest at New London and a footrace in New York.
The book gives you a lively picture of college life in the 1890s. You meet students who cram, joke, pawn their shirts to place bets, and sing songs for Old Eli. You also meet rivals who plot in back rooms and hired toughs who lurk in alleys. Frank answers them with quick wits, a firm temper and a hard right fist.
The story moves fast, with short chapters and a cliffhanger near the close of many of them. It all begins in a stable, where a new horse named Nemo draws the wrong kind of attention. Let us start there, with a thousand dollars, a promise, and a stranger who gives a false name.
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- 1A horse, a promise, and a false nameFree
- 2The lame horse and the white hair
- 3A gang forms against Frank
- 4The Mystic Park races
- 5Jackson's saloon and a fight against the odds
- 6Beating Flemming and fooling Thornton
- 7Pure grit on the Thames
- 8The stranger who will not go away
- 9Races of every sort
- 10What the book is really about
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A horse, a promise, and a false name
The story opens in a stable at Yale. Frank Merriwell has paid a thousand dollars for a bay gelding named Nemo. His friends Jack Diamond, Danny Griswold and Bruce Browning admire the horse and tease Frank about the price. Frank explains that he made a vow to buy this horse after it carried him in pursuit of a runaway that threatened Winifred Lee.
The talk turns to racing. Frank has no taste for professional horse racing, because he thinks it is full of cheating. Still, he is curious about what Nemo can do. Jack Diamond suggests the small Mystic Park races at Bethany. Frank thinks of Toots, a young Black boy from home who loves horses and once rode for Frank's late uncle.
Then a stable hand named Grody mentions that a visitor came that morning and gave his name as Jack Diamond. The real Jack is standing right there. The visitor wore a checked suit and a red tie, looked over the horse's feet, and said that horses are uncertain property. Frank decides that someone is up to no good, and his friends warn him that not all his enemies are asleep.
The chapter also shows the book's style. The boys trade puns and jokes, but under the fun there is a plain code. College sport, Frank argues, is honest, and a man caught cheating in it is ruined for life. That belief will be tested again and again.
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Questions about Las carreras de Frank Merriwell
What is Frank Merriwell's Races about?
It follows Frank Merriwell, a Yale student and athlete, through a spring of races. He enters a horse race, rows in the Yale crew, wrestles a rival and runs a mile, while enemies try to ruin him.
Who is Frank Merriwell?
Frank Merriwell is the hero of a long series of boys' stories by Burt L. Standish. He is a Yale student who excels at baseball, rowing, running and wrestling, and he never drinks, cheats or sells his honor.
Who is the mysterious stranger in the book?
A suntanned man with a scar on his chin offers Frank a bribe, escapes from a moving train, and keeps appearing around New Haven. Who he is and what he wants drives much of the later plot.
Is Frank Merriwell's Races a true story?
No, it is fiction. It was written for young readers in the late nineteenth century and uses real settings, such as Yale, New London and Madison Square Garden, to give its adventures a lifelike college background.
Is Frank Merriwell's Races easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that matters: short chapters, plenty of dialogue, quick fights and races, and a great deal of humor from the students' jokes keep the story moving and easy to follow.