Résumé
Résumé de La Chose du lac
À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
For readers who love old houses with secrets, voices in the dark and romances that grow without a single glimpse of a face. Fans of early twentieth century ghost stories and gentle humour will feel at home.
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A woman's severed braid, a witch's tale told in the dark, and a fear with no name: that is what one rainy-spring whim buys Roger Locke. The Thing from the Lake, by Eleanor M. Ingram, is set just after the First World War. Roger is a lame New York composer of popular songs who buys a run-down Connecticut farm. A hidden woman speaks to him only at night, and something monstrous presses at his window. Downstairs, a sunny young marriage blooms.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A house that begs to be boughtFree
- 2A braid, a knife and a tale
- 3Phillida's secret marriage
- 4A sunny house and a returning dark
- 5The pomander and the lake
- 6Searching the countryside for a name
- 7Love that grows in the dark
- 8The book that waits in the bookcase
- 9What the story is really about
Point clé 1 sur 9
A house that begs to be bought
Roger Locke sits in his car in a gray spring rain, outside a boxlike farmhouse in Connecticut. An agent calls it a bargain, with an orchard and a five-acre lake. Roger feels the house is crying out for rescue, and he decides to buy it before he has even gone inside.
That evening he drives out to sleep there. As he steps onto the veranda, he hears a sound from the lake, like thick lips smacking or a soft body pulling itself out of mud.
Inside, the air smells clean and faintly of cedar. He walks through every room and falls asleep in an old four-poster, feeling welcome. The beginning is so ordinary that what follows lands all the sharper.
That’s 1 of 9 key points.
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Questions about La Chose du lac
What is The Thing from the Lake about?
A New York composer buys a Connecticut farm and is visited at night by a mysterious woman who warns him of a monstrous presence at his window. He chooses to stay and fight, while love grows in the dark.
Who is Desire Michell in The Thing from the Lake?
She is the voice that speaks to Roger in the dark, a woman of old learning who shares a name with a witch from the family's past. Who she truly is unfolds as the story goes on.
Who wrote The Thing from the Lake and when?
Eleanor M. Ingram wrote it, and it is set in the years after the First World War. She died in 1921. It is a work of fiction, though it uses real older sources and literary allusions.
Is The Thing from the Lake easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that it is approachable. It has a warm first-person narrator with a dry sense of humour, lively dialogue and a clear sequence of events that draws you from scene to scene.
What does the Barrier mean in The Thing from the Lake?
The Barrier is a vast gray wall that Roger sees in his night struggles, standing between humankind and dark forms of life. A gap in it lets the Thing reach him, and holding the gap is his task.