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Resumen de La princesa de cobre
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You will enjoy this if you like old-fashioned adventure, close friendships between unlikely companions, underground exploration, smugglers and secret caves, or a hero who rises from nothing by courage and good humour.
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The Copper Princess is an adventure novel by Kirk Munroe, set in the copper country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, on the shore of Lake Superior. It follows Richard Peveril, a young American who has stroked the Oxford eight and believes himself rich, until one cablegram brings news that puts that fortune in doubt.
Munroe, who wrote adventure stories for young readers and died in 1930, fills the book with mine shafts, rescues, brawls, smugglers and a hidden cave behind a painted curtain. You also meet the warm Cornish family who take Peveril in, and you learn how a deep copper mine runs, from the cage that drops a mile into the earth to the great timbers that hold up the roof.
What does the book give you? A fast story with a hero who keeps landing in danger, a clear picture of life in a mining town in the days of narrow-gauge trains and lantern signals, and a puzzle that runs from the first chapter to the last. It all begins with a train leaving Hancock station, and a stranger who runs to catch it.
En este resumen
- 1A rescue on a moving trainFree
- 2A cablegram ends an Oxford dream
- 3The cage, the mine and a fight in the dark
- 4Dynamite, a confession and a hero's welcome
- 5A lost letter and a face in the cliff
- 6Seized, thrown into a pit and buried alive
- 7Darrell's secret and a battle in the cavern
- 8What the story is really about
- 9How the story is told
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A rescue on a moving train
The story opens at Hancock station, where the narrow-gauge train for Red Jacket is just pulling out. A young man runs from the waiting room and tries to jump aboard the smoking car. He misses the step and falls between two cars, clinging to a handrail with the wheels beneath him. People on the platform cry out in horror and turn away, sure they are about to see a man killed.
One passenger does not turn away. Richard Peveril, neatly dressed and powerfully built, drops his bag, throws himself over the guardrail and braces his knees against its supports. Stretching his arms to their limit, he catches the fallen man by the coat collar and hauls him up onto the platform. The train carries on, and almost nobody on board notices what has happened.
The rescued man is Tom Trefethen, who runs a compressor at the number three shaft of the White Pine Mine. He offers his friendship on the spot. Peveril answers that a friend is exactly what he needs, because he has spent his last dollar on the ticket and has no idea where he will eat or sleep. He has come north looking for any honest work, since he was told this is the one corner of the country untouched by hard times. Tom stares at the neat traveling suit in disbelief.
At the Red Jacket station Tom hurries off to find a boardinghouse, and Peveril waits on the platform wondering whether his new friend will ever come back. Instead a short, grizzled man in a rough suit steps up and asks if his name is Richard. This is Mark Trefethen, Tom's father, and he declares that Peveril has no truer friend in the world.
The old Cornishman does not take him straight to supper. He leads him into a saloon and stops before a boxing machine, an upright frame with a leather pad painted with a crude face and a dial numbered up to three hundred. Whoever lets the pointer slip back owes the crowd beer. Peveril's first blow is careful and scores 156, and Mark answers with 180, then 190. Peveril lifts the score to 191, and Mark, stripping off his coat, strikes with his whole body and reaches 195.
The watchers shout that it is a record. Then Peveril, whose right arm was the pride of his college, delivers a blow that leaves the needle trembling on exactly 195. The two have tied, and the bar cheers them both. Mark says he now believes Tom's story of the rescue.
One man will not cheer. Mike Connell, an Irish miner, mocks Peveril for refusing a drink on an empty stomach and says he cannot be a working man if he will not drink with them. Mark Trefethen silences him with a fist shaken under his nose, and the two leave for supper.
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Questions about La princesa de cobre
What is The Copper Princess about?
It follows Richard Peveril, a young American who loses his fortune and goes to the Lake Superior copper country. He takes a mine job, makes friends among the miners, and searches for the mine his father part owned.
Who wrote The Copper Princess and when?
Kirk Munroe, an American author of adventure stories for young readers, who died in 1930. The novel is set in the copper country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, in the days of narrow-gauge trains and lantern signals.
Who is Mary Darrell in The Copper Princess?
She is the daughter of Ralph Darrell, who lives at a lonely mining village on the lake shore. She wears boys' clothes when she rides, helps her father with secret work, and keeps watch from a cliff.
What is the Copper Princess in the book?
It is the name of a Michigan mine that Peveril's father and Ralph Darrell bought together long ago. Peveril learns that it swallowed a fortune and found no copper, and he sets out to learn what it is worth.
Is The Copper Princess easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that matters. It has short chapters that each end on a hook, lively dialogue, and a clear hero, so the action carries you from scene to scene with ease.