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Trama e riassunto di Verdi dimore
- 8 min di lettura
- 10 parts
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A fugitive in the Guayana forest follows a bird-like voice to a girl who stands unharmed beside a deadly snake.
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Verdi dimore in breve
Riassunto: 8 min di lettura
- Tempo di lettura
- Circa 5 h 45 min4 h 30 min fast, 6 h 50 min slow
- Durata
- 81.500 parole
- Livello nella biblioteca
- Medio longer sentences, everyday words
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1904by W. H. Hudson
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Verdi dimore in short
Green Mansions is a tale told inside a friendship. A man who has kept his past hidden speaks at last, and what he tells is the story of a fugitive who wanders into the Guayana wilderness, loses his dream of gold, and finds something he did not seek. There a voice leads him to Rima, a girl who walks with serpents and speaks a language no one else can follow.
What Verdi dimore is about
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.
A chi è rivolto. 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.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
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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The gold dream fails and the forest gives peace
Once Abel is well, restlessness returns.
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Village life leads Abel to a forbidden wood
Abel settles into easy days with Runi's family.
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A voice among the trees draws him deeper
On his second visit to the wood, Abel hears a song unlike anything he has met.
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He glimpses a girl and learns of a plot
Soon Abel sees what the voice belongs to.
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A snake bite brings a stranger's rescue
A day or two later Abel walks toward the wood, eager to meet the girl.
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Rima has two faces and a guardian with secrets
In the hut Rima is silent and shy, in a faded cotton dress, her eyes lowered.
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A lesson on a mountaintop sets a journey in motion
When Rima reappears, she leads Abel up Ytaioa.
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Nature, love and an unshared language drive the story
Two themes run through the book.
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The story is told as a confession with vivid images
Hudson frames the tale as a memory told by one man to another.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Abel A young Venezuelan on the run who tells the whole story, hungry for adventure and drawn to a mystery in the forest.
- Rima A slender forest girl with a musical voice and shifting colors, who wants to find others who speak her language.
- Nuflo Rima's old guardian, a devout rogue who tells lies, hides his meat-eating and hopes she will win him a place in heaven.
- Runi The headman of the Parahuari village who takes Abel in, hates his old enemy Managa and fears the forest.
- Kua-ko A young hunter with some imagination and some cunning, who befriends Abel and wants the forest girl killed.
- Cla-cla Runi's ancient mother, an owl-faced storyteller who talks the men to sleep and loves Abel's music.
- Don Panta A greedy but kind trader at Manapuri who sends the sick Abel to the mountains to recover.
How it ends (spoiler)
Rima leaves the cave at Riolama alone, promising to wait for Abel in the wood. When Abel and Nuflo return, the house is burned down and Rima is gone. Kua-ko tells Abel that the Indians trapped her in a tree and burned it, and she fell calling Abel's name. Abel kills Kua-ko in a fight, then helps the rival chief Managa destroy Runi's village. He gathers Rima's ashes in an urn and carries them to Georgetown. In the end he remains burdened by remorse.
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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.
Cita questa edizione
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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