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Resumen de La cría del león
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- Tiempo de lectura
- Unas 7 h 35 min6 h fast, 9 h slow
- Duración
- 108.000 palabras
- Nivel en la biblioteca
- Mediano longer sentences, everyday words
- Primera publicación
- 1901by Amelia E. Barr
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You will enjoy this book if you like history told through families, love stories pulled by loyalty and conscience, and a warm portrait of Cromwell.
De qué trata este libro
What happens when two best friends stand on opposite sides of a war, and each loves someone the other cannot forgive? That question opens The Lion's Whelp, a historical novel by Amelia E. Barr, set in England in the years of Oliver Cromwell. On a quiet Cambridgeshire afternoon, Jane Swaffham sits with a half-finished lavender bag while her father and brothers fight in Scotland.
Barr places two invented families, the Swaffhams and the de Wicks, around a Cromwell who prays before battle and weeps over lost friends. You get a love story, a tale of spies and secret warrants, and a portrait of a nation slowly changing its mind.
En este resumen
- 1Two old houses stand on opposite sidesFree
- 2News of Dunbar reaches Swaffham by night
- 3A young lord arrives and love begins
- 4Worcester ends a war and tests a friendship
- 5London brings splendor, a prince, and a wait
- 6Cromwell breaks the Parliament and becomes Protector
- 7Matilda robs the mail to save her brother
- 8A messenger leaves Paris and is never seen
- 9Friendship, mercy and faith run through every scene
- 10How Barr tells it, with letters, visions and speeches
Idea clave 1 de 10
Two old houses stand on opposite sides
Swaffham Manor House is so old that the neighbors call it simply Swaffham, as if the house and the family were one person. Captain Israel Swaffham, a friend of General Cromwell, is away in Scotland with his three sons. His wife Martha and his daughter Jane keep the house and trade verses from the Psalms to steady each other.
Matilda de Wick arrives to visit Jane, and another quarrel about Cromwell follows. The two girls love each other, and they cannot stay off the subject for ten minutes. Jane calls him brave as a lion, Matilda calls him a hypocrite, and a kiss of peace follows each quarrel.
At de Wick Park the mood is darker. The old Earl has lost two sons fighting for the King, and his last son Stephen serves Charles Stuart. Neither house is made a villain, and each has paid for its loyalty in blood.
Two honest loyalties can live in neighboring houses and still be set on a collision.
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- LengthAbout 108,000 words
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Questions about La cría del león
What is The Lion's Whelp about?
It follows Jane Swaffham, a Puritan soldier's daughter, and her royalist friend Matilda de Wick through the years of Cromwell's rise, with a love story, secret plots, and a close portrait of Cromwell himself.
Why is the novel called The Lion's Whelp?
The title comes from a flag showing the lion of England, given to Cromwell before Naseby. Israel Swaffham calls Cromwell a lion's whelp, to whom the gathering of the people shall come.
Is The Lion's Whelp a true story?
Cromwell, Milton, Blake, Prince Rupert and the battles of Dunbar and Worcester are real, while the Swaffham and de Wick families and the love story are invented. Amelia E. Barr wrote it in the early twentieth century.
Who are Jane Swaffham and Matilda de Wick?
Jane is a prayerful Puritan daughter and Matilda is a royalist earl's daughter. They are lifelong friends who quarrel over politics and stay close, and their loves and loyalties drive the plot.
What is the main message of the book?
The book shows that faith, mercy and friendship can hold when a nation is divided. It also presents Cromwell as a man of prayer who bears the cost of freedom and power.
Cita esta edición
Barr, Amelia E. The Lion's Whelp. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-lions-whelp.
Barr, A. E. (2026). The lion's whelp. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-lions-whelp (Original work published 1901)
Barr, Amelia E. The Lion's Whelp. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-lions-whelp.
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