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À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
Readers who love wild places, bird song and old-fashioned romance will find a home here. It suits anyone drawn to jungle adventure or to what nature can give a lonely, restless man.
De quoi parle ce livre ?
What would make a charming, well-liked man in Georgetown keep one chapter of his life locked away for years? In Green Mansions, a quarrel between two friends forces the answer into the open. One evening on a veranda, a man known as Mr. Abel agrees at last to tell the story of his years in Venezuela.
W. H. Hudson, a naturalist with a close eye for birds, trees and weather, published this romance in 1904. It follows a young Venezuelan who flees a failed revolt and loses himself in the forests of Guayana. Among the trees he hears a voice that sounds like a bird and speaks like a person. You get adventure, a love story and a loving look at tropical nature.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A quarrel opens a locked chapter of lifeFree
- 2The gold dream fails and the forest gives peace
- 3Village life leads Abel to a forbidden wood
- 4A voice among the trees draws him deeper
- 5He glimpses a girl and learns of a plot
- 6A snake bite brings a stranger's rescue
- 7Rima has two faces and a guardian with secrets
- 8A lesson on a mountaintop sets a journey in motion
- 9Nature, love and an unshared language drive the story
- 10The story is told as a confession with vivid images
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A quarrel opens a locked chapter of life
The book opens in Georgetown, in British Guiana, in 1887. A young clerk befriends Mr. Abel, a wealthy Venezuelan whom everyone loves for his kindness and his talk of nature and poetry. Yet Abel goes cold whenever the talk turns to the Indigenous peoples of the interior.
A sharp quarrel brings the matter into the open. By morning Abel has written a letter begging forgiveness, and on the veranda, over black coffee, he decides to speak.
Abel begins at twenty-three, in a Venezuela that is a republic in name only. He joins a conspiracy as easily as a young man joins a club. It fails, and as the only son of a man the Minister of War hated, he has to run for his life. He goes up the Orinoco, keeps a journal in hope of fame, and falls to fever at the swampy post of Manapuri, where rain turns his pages to pulp. Abel's story begins with flight, illness and a lost book, and each loss pushes him deeper into the forest.
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Questions about Les Maisons vertes
What is Green Mansions about?
It follows a young Venezuelan named Abel who flees a failed revolt and lives in the forests of Guayana. There he meets Rima, a mysterious girl with a bird-like voice, and becomes bound up in her search for her people.
Who is Rima in Green Mansions?
Rima is a slender girl who lives in a forest with her grandfather Nuflo. She speaks a musical language no one else understands, is friends with wild animals and is feared by the nearby Indians, who call her a daughter of the Didi.
What does the title Green Mansions mean?
The phrase is Abel's name for the forest he loves. He sees its leafy chambers and shafts of sunlight as vast halls built by nature, and he kneels to thank his Maker for those green mansions.
When was Green Mansions written, and is it a true story?
W. H. Hudson published it in 1904 as a romance. It is a work of fiction, though Hudson draws on his knowledge of birds, trees and tropical wildlife for its settings.
Is Green Mansions easy to read?
The story moves along through clear scenes, vivid animals and lively talk, especially the funny speeches of old Nuflo. Abel tells it in a warm, confiding voice, so the descriptions and the adventure are easy to follow.
Cite this edition
Hudson, W. H. Green Mansions. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/green-mansions.
Hudson, W. H. (2026). Green mansions. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/green-mansions (Original work published 1904)
Hudson, W. H. Green Mansions. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/green-mansions.
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title = {Green Mansions},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
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note = {First published 1904}
}
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