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Trama e riassunto di Le avventure del signor Verdant Green
- 8 min di lettura
- 10 parts
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A sheltered Warwickshire boy in spectacles arrives at Oxford, where every friend has a joke ready for him.
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Le avventure del signor Verdant Green in breve
Riassunto: 8 min di lettura
- Tempo di lettura
- Circa 7 h 20 min5 h 50 min fast, 8 h 45 min slow
- Durata
- 104.600 parole
- Livello nella biblioteca
- Medio longer sentences, everyday words
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1853by Cuthbert Bede
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Le avventure del signor Verdant Green in short
At its center, this is the story of a gentle, trusting boy sent from a sheltered country house into the busy life of Oxford. He is laughed at, fooled, and sometimes hurt, but he is also befriended, and he gradually learns to stand on his own.
What Le avventure del signor Verdant Green is about
What happens to a boy who has never played a game, never slept away from his mother, and believes every word he hears? Verdant Green, eighteen years old and nearsighted, goes up to Oxford to find out. Within days strangers on a coach mock him, a friend swears the Vice-Chancellor carries a poker, and a wine party leaves him helplessly drunk.
The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green was written by Cuthbert Bede, who knew Oxford from the inside. You get the slang, the sports, the scouts and the tradesmen of a Victorian university town, seen through a young man who is kind, shy and very easy to fool.
A chi è rivolto. This book suits readers who enjoy comic scenes, lively friendships, and the customs of old Oxford. If you like practical jokes, mishaps on horse and river, and a gentle love story, you will smile often.
The story in 10 parts
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A sheltered boy from a family of easy marks
Verdant Green comes from a family that has been fooled for centuries. The book opens with a mock family history that traces the Greens back to the Crusades. They mortgage their lands for others and sign small bills as a favour.
Verdant is born at Manor Green in Warwickshire. His mother believes in teaching at home, so he sits in the schoolroom with his three sisters and his aunt Virginia. He grows up girlish, shy, and kind, with no knowledge of boys' games. The rector's son Charley tells him dreadful tales of floggings at public school, and Verdant believes every word.
Then the rector persuades Mr. Green that a university will teach the boy self-reliance. Mrs. Green gives way after Aunt Virginia recites the deeds of the mothers of Greece and Rome. The family sends Verdant off with silver spoons engraved Semper virens, always green.
Verdant is sent to Oxford by people who love him and who know it only by hearsay.
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The coach ride shows what Oxford men are like
Verdant and his father travel to Oxford on the four-horse coach from Birmingham.
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Verdant meets the Master, his scout, and the University
The next morning Verdant and his father call on Dr. Portman, the Master of Brazenface.
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Friends who love a joke teach him the hard way
Charles Larkyns becomes Verdant's guide to college life.
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Dogs, tailors, horses, and the river cost him dearly
Verdant begins to pile up the small marks of a university man.
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A hoax on a new freshman and a riot in the street
In his second term Verdant is no longer a freshman, and he is proud of it.
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Christmas charades and a summer in the North
At Christmas the Larkyns and Bouncer families join the Greens at Manor Green.
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Experience is the real subject of the book
The narrator says that experience is a staff, a telescope, and a lighthouse, and that Oxford prescribes it in large doses.
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Friends, scouts, and bills make a whole society
Around Verdant stands a crowd of well-drawn types.
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The narrator, the footnotes, and the quoted verses
The story is told by a narrator who calls himself a truthful historian and who keeps a friendly, joking tone.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Verdant Green A shy, nearsighted, kind young man from Warwickshire who goes up to Oxford and believes nearly everything he is told.
- Charles Larkyns The rector's son and Verdant's guide at Brazenface, a handsome tease who also proves a loyal friend and works hard for a degree.
- Mr. Bouncer A small, cheerful undergraduate with a post horn and two bull terriers, who loves practical jokes and dodges honest study.
- Robert Filcher Verdant's scout, a sly college servant who looks after the rooms and finds many ways to profit from a freshman.
- Patty Honeywood A lively, good-humoured young woman from Northumberland who sketches, rides well, and takes a growing interest in Verdant.
- Frederick Delaval A handsome yachtsman and cousin of the Honeywoods, brave and cheerful, whom Verdant first mistakes for a rival.
- Dr. Portman The gentle Master of Brazenface, a scholar of the Greek particles who can never remember Verdant's first name.
How it ends (spoiler)
Verdant takes his degree and becomes a Bachelor of Arts. At the picnic on Ros Castle he and Patty clear up a muddle and she accepts him. Two years later, at the ruined church of Lasthope, he marries Patty in a double wedding with Frederick Delaval and Kitty Honeywood. Charles Larkyns marries Mary Green earlier, and Mr. Bouncer, who never takes a degree, ends up engaged to Fanny Green.
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What is The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green about?
It follows a shy, trusting young man from Warwickshire who goes up to Oxford, makes friends, gets hoaxed, tries sports, runs up bills, and visits Northumberland after falling for Patty during Christmas at home.
Who is Mr. Bouncer in Verdant Green?
Mr. Bouncer is a small, jolly undergraduate at Brazenface College who plays a post horn and keeps two bull terriers, Huz and Buz. He calls Verdant Giglamps because of his spectacles and teases him constantly.
Why is Verdant Green called Giglamps?
The nickname comes from Verdant's round spectacles, which a passenger on the Oxford coach compares to gig lamps, the lamps on a light carriage. Mr. Bouncer picks it up and uses it for the rest of the book.
Cita questa edizione
Bede, Cuthbert. The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green.
Bede, C. (2026). The adventures of Mr. Verdant Green. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green (Original work published 1853)
Bede, Cuthbert. The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-adventures-of-mr-verdant-green.
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