Résumé
Résumé de Tout au long du fleuve
À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
Readers who enjoy Victorian domestic drama, secrets inside a marriage, seaside and country settings, and old houses with ghosts in the corners. It also suits anyone who likes a love story told with warmth and sharp social humour.
De quoi parle ce livre ?
A letter from Burma, a rainy afternoon, and a stranger's offer of shelter. That is all it takes to start a quiet disaster. All Along the River is a novel by M. E. Braddon, a writer of popular Victorian fiction. It follows a young wife in a Cornish cottage, a husband far away in Burma, and a neighbour whose charm is hard to resist. Braddon pays attention to small things: a letter, a dance card, a cup of tea, a telegram form tucked in a drawer. Let us begin with the letter.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A letter from Burma and a walk in the rainFree
- 2A shy wife slowly befriends a peer
- 3The night of the Hunt Ball
- 4The colonel comes home to a changed house
- 5Allegra brings life, and Glenaveril shows its manners
- 6A birth, a fever, and a feud over a footpath
- 7A yacht in the moonlight and a sailor in love
- 8The slander and the trip to London
- 9South to the sun, and what the book is about
Point clé 1 sur 9
A letter from Burma and a walk in the rain
The story opens on a wet November day at Trelasco, a Cornish village near Fowey. Isola Disney, twenty years old, waits at the window for the postman. Her husband, Major Martin Disney, writes from Burma that he cannot return for six months, perhaps a year.
To walk off her gloom, Isola climbs a hill above the river. A storm breaks, and she is soaked and three miles from home. A tall, pale man with dark eyes offers her shelter.
He is Lord Lostwithiel, the only nobleman the village has. He leads her to his great library, and his housekeeper serves tea. He sends her home in his carriage and calls the next morning. Braddon plants the first thread of the whole novel in this courteous encounter.
That’s 1 of 9 key points.
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Questions about Tout au long du fleuve
What is All Along the River about?
It tells of a young Cornish wife, Isola Disney, whose husband is posted to Burma. A charming neighbour, Lord Lostwithiel, enters her lonely life. When her husband comes home, the marriage meets doubt, gossip and a long journey to Italy.
Who is Lord Lostwithiel in All Along the River?
He is the thirteenth baron and owner of the Mount, an old manor near Fowey. He is clever, well travelled and fond of his yacht the Vendetta. Neighbours talk about him constantly, and his brother John also appears in the book.
Where is All Along the River set?
Later chapters move to San Remo on the Italian Riviera and to Rome, with scenes in Genoa and Venice mentioned along the way.
Who wrote All Along the River and when?
M. E. Braddon wrote it in the late Victorian period. It is a novel, though it draws on real places and everyday customs such as hunt balls, parish gossip and winter trips to the Mediterranean.
Is All Along the River worth reading?
It suits readers who enjoy a clear story, vivid settings, lively secondary characters and a second love story beside the main drama. Short scenes, plenty of dialogue and warm humour about village life make it easy to follow.