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For readers who love ghost stories told by firelight, Portuguese settings, Romantic legends with a wink, and lively talk among friends, with a gentle love story growing quietly between the tales.
Che cos’è questo libro
What if the scariest hour of the night could be defeated by telling stories? The Legend of Midnight, a Portuguese novel of linked tales by Manuel Pinheiro Chagas, who died in 1895, begins in an old country house above Alpedrinha. Autumn storms shut in a party of hunting guests. When the church bell strikes twelve, one young woman screams in fear, and a witty doctor proposes a cure. Each night, someone will read a ghost story or legend aloud at midnight. Around the tales, you get jokes, quarrels and a quiet romance.
In questo riassunto
- 1A stormy night and a frightened guestFree
- 2Doctor Macedo declares war on midnight
- 3Juliet, the woman in the opera box
- 4Moonlit garden and the cost of an ideal
- 5The Vision of the Precipice and a village storyteller
- 6A vow broken and a ghost at the dam
- 7The Profaned Church beneath the sea
- 8The Memoirs of a Green Purse
- 9A sprite's lesson and what the tales mean
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A stormy night and a frightened guest
A large, plain house stands on a green mountain above Alpedrinha. It belongs to the Viscounts of Fragosa. A gale keeps the hunting guests indoors around a brazier in a shadowy hall.
The talk turns to legends. Isaura, a pale and beautiful guest, says she loves them only when she reads them in Lisbon, in sunlight. Dr. Macedo answers that legends are like pineapples, and a greenhouse one has no true flavour.
Then the bell of St. Martin's church tolls twelve. Everyone counts the strokes in silence, and Isaura screams that midnight is the hour of ghosts.
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Questions about La leggenda di mezzanotte
What is The Legend of Midnight about?
It follows a house party in the mountains near Alpedrinha, where guests read ghost stories at midnight to cure a young woman's fear of the hour. Several tales are told, and a love story grows among the listeners.
Who wrote The Legend of Midnight and when?
Manuel Pinheiro Chagas, a Portuguese writer who died in 1895, wrote it in the nineteenth century. It is a work of fiction, made of linked tales inside a frame story about a house party.
What tales are told in the book?
The readings are Juliet, The Vision of the Precipice, The Profaned Church, Memoirs of a Green Purse and Dominus Tecum, a story for children. They range from gothic horror to comedy and fairy tale.
Who are the main characters in The Legend of Midnight?
The central group is Dr. Macedo, the nervous Isaura, the sharp Leonor, the romantic Henrique Osorio, the writer Lucio Valença and the elder Roberto Soares. They are guests of the Viscount of Fragosa.
Is The Legend of Midnight easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that it is built from short tales, each with its own voice and setting. The frame brings lively conversation, jokes and clear scenes, so the stories are easy to follow one by one.