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Résumé de La vieille maison de pierre et autres récits
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This book suits readers who love old-fashioned mysteries with a clear voice, a puzzle at the center and a mood of dread. If you enjoy tales of jealousy, secrets and clever detection, it is made for you.
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Picture a rider on an autumn road who comes on an old stone house at the edge of a forest. It has ten large windows, but only two ever received frames. Scaffolding still clings to the walls. Who built this fine house, and why did no one finish it?
That question opens The Old Stone House and Other Stories by Anna Katharine Green, a nineteenth century American writer of detective fiction. The book gathers five tales of love, crime and doubt, each told by someone who was there. You get their people and turning points, and you learn what ties them together.
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- 1An old man's manuscript opens the mysteryFree
- 2Three men and a village beauty collide
- 3Two houses rise as a secret love grows
- 4A doctor is locked in a room without windows
- 5Masked riders ride toward a judge's house
- 6A woman physician hunts a hidden poisoner
- 7A lawyer's letter troubles a friend's wedding
- 8Closed rooms, watching narrators and moral doubt
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An old man's manuscript opens the mystery
The first story begins with a rider on a quiet road in New York State. He stops before a stone house at the edge of a forest. Only two of its ten large windows ever received frames. Upstairs, something grips his arm in the dark, and he finds it is only a twig grown through the window.
At the inn he asks the landlady why the house has stood empty so long. She glances at her father, a man of ninety, and says that talk of the house excites him too much. The old man will not be silenced. He fetches a roll of yellow paper, a record he wrote when the events happened, fifty years earlier. He presses it into the stranger's hand with a sly wink.
You are handed a witness's own pages to judge for yourself. They are written by Philo Adams, who is twenty and in love. He writes in the present tense, so you live each day as he does, without knowing what comes next.
A ruined house and a witness's yellow pages promise a truth that only the pages themselves can tell.
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About 2 h 40 min to read.Questions about La vieille maison de pierre et autres récits
What is The Old Stone House and Other Stories about?
It gathers five short tales of mystery and suspense. They include a village love triangle around an unfinished stone house, a doctor held in a locked room, a night raid, a poisoning in a boardinghouse and a lawyer's dilemma.
Who is Colonel Schuyler in The Old Stone House?
He is a proud, wealthy man and the great figure of the county. He courts Juliet Playfair and builds a grand stone house in the woods for her, and he claims her oath on a churchyard grave.
Who wrote this book and when?
Anna Katharine Green wrote it. She was an American author who worked in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is known as an early master of the detective story. She died in 1935.
Are the stories easy to read?
Yes, they are brisk and clear. Each tale is short, told by a narrator who speaks directly, with strong scenes, quick dialogue and a puzzle that pulls you from page to page.
What do the five stories have in common?
Each is told in the first person by a witness, and each turns on a question of guilt, love or trust. Small clues, closed rooms and polite manners that hide a dark purpose recur throughout.
Cite this edition
Green, Anna Katharine. The Old Stone House and Other Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-old-stone-house-and-other-stories.
Green, A. K. (2026). The old stone house and other stories. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-old-stone-house-and-other-stories (Original work published 1891)
Green, Anna Katharine. The Old Stone House and Other Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-old-stone-house-and-other-stories.
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