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For readers who love historical adventure with a love story, a frontier setting and a war that splits communities, alongside spying, secret errands and divided loyalties.
De qué trata este libro
The Reckoning is a historical romance by Robert W. Chambers, an American writer who died in 1933. He set it in New York during the American Revolution, a time when neighbors, friends and families found themselves on opposite sides of a war fought close to home.
The book belongs to a line of adventure novels Chambers wrote about the colonial and Revolutionary frontier of his home state. It gives you a story of divided loyalties, secret errands and danger in the woods and settlements of the New York country. Let us start with the world the story lives in.
En este resumen
- 1A war that divides neighborsFree
- 2Secrets, spies and risky errands
- 3Love set against conflict
- 4The frontier as a character
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A war that divides neighbors
The story is set in New York during the Revolutionary War. This was not a war of clean battle lines. In the valleys and settlements of the province, many people stayed loyal to the Crown while others sided with the patriots, and the two groups lived side by side.
Chambers builds his plot on that tension. Loyalty is never simple in his pages, because a person may owe duty to a country, a family, a friend or a promise, and these claims can pull in different directions.
For the reader, this gives the novel its steady pressure. Every meeting between characters carries the question of who can be trusted.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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What is The Reckoning by Robert W. Chambers about?
It is a historical adventure novel set in New York during the American Revolution. It mixes spying, frontier danger and romance, and shows how the war set neighbors and loyalties against each other.
Is The Reckoning a true story?
No. It is a work of historical fiction. Chambers placed invented characters in the real setting of Revolutionary War New York, using the period and its divisions as the background for his plot.
Who was Robert W. Chambers?
He was an American writer and former illustrator who died in 1933. He wrote many popular novels, including historical romances of New York and the weird tale collection The King in Yellow.
Is The Reckoning hard to read?
Readers used to historical adventure will find it fairly easy to follow.
What are the main themes of The Reckoning?
The main themes are divided loyalty, trust and betrayal in wartime, and the way love and duty can conflict. The New York frontier setting adds themes of danger and survival.