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Resumen de La hora duodécima
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- Tiempo de lectura
- Unas 3 h 55 min3 h 5 min fast, 4 h 40 min slow
- Duración
- 55.900 palabras
- Nivel en la biblioteca
- Fácil short sentences, plain words
- Primera publicación
- 1907by Ada Leverson
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Para quién es
You will love this if you enjoy sparkling dialogue, society comedy, Edwardian London, Oscar Wilde's wit, and affectionate portraits of vain, kind and foolish people in love.
De qué trata este libro
What do you do when your husband loves racehorses and old china more than he loves being seen with you? That is the question facing Felicity, Lady Chetwode, in the first pages of The Twelfth Hour. She sits at her Louis Quinze mirror in Park Street while her brother Savile, a grave schoolboy of sixteen, asks her advice on love.
Ada Leverson wrote this comedy in the Edwardian years, and she fills it with the talk of London drawing rooms. Felicity collects admirers, her sister Sylvia loves her father's secretary, and a rich Greek banker wants to marry her. You get the plots, the people and the jokes in a clear, quick pass. The youngest person in the house solves the problems of the oldest.
En este resumen
- 1A beauty at her mirror, a husband awayFree
- 2A secretary and a daughter wait for twenty-one
- 3Savile manages his heart and his relatives
- 4The party brings in the rivals
- 5Bertie Wilton plays the persistent suitor
- 6Ridokanaki makes an offer in Athens
- 7Chetwode the collector and the velvet case
- 8Everyone wants to be missed
- 9Conscience, impatience and the young lovers
- 10How a comedy of manners is told
Idea clave 1 de 10
A beauty at her mirror, a husband away
The story opens in the bedroom of Felicity, Lady Chetwode, in Park Street. She is about twenty-five, small and fair, and she has been called a beauty since the age of two. Her husband has furnished every corner in the French style of Louis Quinze. He is seldom there to enjoy it, and if anyone asks after him, the answer is nearly always that he is away.
Her brother Savile comes in, sixteen years old, handsome and very serious. He talks like a man of the world and scolds her for dining out while her husband is at Newmarket. In a few minutes the talk gives the whole cast. Their sister Sylvia is hunted by Mr. Ridokanaki, a Greek banker, and Savile suspects she likes their father's secretary, Frank Woodville.
Felicity is hurt that Chetwode would rather watch horses or buy furniture than attend her father's party. Yet she decides never to nag him, because a husband should be free. He writes her long letters nearly every day, but his handwriting is so bad that she keeps them unread in a striped silk box. A wife can be adored and still feel left alone.
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- LengthAbout 55,900 words
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Questions about La hora duodécima
What is The Twelfth Hour about?
It follows the Crofton family through a London season. Felicity misses her absent husband, Sylvia loves her father's penniless secretary, and young Savile tries to solve everyone's problems with help from a Greek banker, a dandy and a fortune-teller.
Who is Savile in The Twelfth Hour?
He is Felicity and Sylvia's sixteen-year-old brother, a grave Eton schoolboy who thinks like a man of the world. He manages his family's affairs, has two romances of his own, and acts as the book's secret hero.
When was The Twelfth Hour written and is it a true story?
It is a novel by Ada Leverson, set in the Edwardian years in London. The characters are invented, though real singers, artists, places and fashions appear in the background to give a lifelike setting.
Is The Twelfth Hour easy to read?
It is mostly lively conversation, with short scenes and comic chapter titles. The jokes are quick, the characters are distinct, and the narrator guides you gently through each drawing room and dinner party.
What does the title The Twelfth Hour mean?
The phrase means the last possible moment before it is too late. The book is about people who delay speaking or acting, and it shows how a late rescue arrives in several of their lives.
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Leverson, Ada. The Twelfth Hour. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-twelfth-hour.
Leverson, A. (2026). The twelfth hour. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-twelfth-hour (Original work published 1907)
Leverson, Ada. The Twelfth Hour. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-twelfth-hour.
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