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Readers who like a determined young man with something to prove, college life and football, the glitter of old New York society, and a love story fought over many years.
De qué trata este libro
The Guarded Heights is a novel by Wadsworth Camp about a livery stable keeper's son named George Morton, who sets out to rise in American society and to win the one woman who despises him. It opens in the years before the First World War on the Oakmont estate of a railroad millionaire and follows George through Princeton, Wall Street, the war in France and the unsettled peace.
The book gives you a hard-driving hero with a clear goal and a stubborn will. It shows you the clubs, class elections and football fields of a great university, the trading rooms and parties of New York, and the trenches of the Argonne. At every turn the question is the same. What does a man owe to those who helped him climb, and what does he lose when he climbs only for himself?
George makes a vow in his first chapter, and the story is the long fight to keep it. We begin with a fall from a horse, a broken riding crop and a boast.
En este resumen
- 1A fall from a horse starts a vowFree
- 2Three men decide he must go
- 3Squibs Bailly takes him on
- 4A freshman rises and plays his cards
- 5Clubs, elections and a game against Yale
- 6Wall Street, Blodgett and the shadow of Sylvia
- 7A fortune made out of war
- 8The war and its question
- 9What the story is about and how it is told
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A fall from a horse starts a vow
George Morton is twenty when his father's livery stable fails. Cheap automobiles have killed the trade, and the creditors take the horses. Old Planter, the millionaire who owns the great estate of Oakmont, buys the little house where the Mortons live and draws his boundary around it. George is known as the best horseman in the countryside, so Planter's superintendent offers him work in the estate stables.
George dislikes the idea of being anyone's servant, but his frightened parents beg him to accept. Soon he is assigned to guard Sylvia Planter on her rides. She has just come home from school, and she is slender, black haired and fearless. She speaks to him only about the horses and the weather, and she calls him Morton as if he were a groom.
Day after day he rides behind her and watches her, and without admitting it he falls in love. One July afternoon she tries a thorny hedge on a bad takeoff, and her horse refuses. She sails over the hedge and lies motionless in the meadow beyond.
George runs to her in terror. He lifts her, calls her name and begs her to open her eyes, saying he cannot live without her. She wakes, and she has heard every word.
The story is built on what happens next. She calls him an impertinent servant and swings her riding crop at his face. He catches her wrist and snaps the crop in two. He puts the pieces in his pocket as a reminder of the insult and swears that he will have her.
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Questions about Las alturas protegidas
What is The Guarded Heights about?
It follows George Morton, a livery keeper's son who is dismissed from a millionaire's estate and vows to win the owner's daughter, Sylvia Planter. He rises through Princeton, Wall Street and the First World War.
Who is Squibs Bailly in The Guarded Heights?
Squibs Bailly is a limping Princeton tutor with a Van Dyke beard who loves football. He coaches George through the entrance exams and keeps asking him what service means.
What does the broken riding crop mean in the story?
Sylvia swings the crop at George after he reveals his love, and he snaps it in two and keeps the pieces. They remind him of the insult and of his vow, and he carries them for years.
When was The Guarded Heights written and is it a true story?
It is a novel by Wadsworth Camp, set in the years before and after the First World War. The people are invented, though the settings, from Princeton to the Argonne, are real.
What is the main message of The Guarded Heights?
Ambition pursued only for oneself leaves a man empty. The book suggests that real success comes through service to others and through honesty about where you began.