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Trama e riassunto di La stanza nella torre e altri racconti
- 8 min di lettura
- 10 parts
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Fifteen years of the same nightmare lead a man to the room in the tower, where Mrs. Stone waits.
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La stanza nella torre e altri racconti in breve
Riassunto: 8 min di lettura
- Tempo di lettura
- Circa 5 h 30 min4 h 20 min fast, 6 h 30 min slow
- Durata
- 78.200 parole
- Livello nella biblioteca
- Medio longer sentences, everyday words
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1912by E. F. Benson
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La stanza nella torre e altri racconti in short
Seventeen tales, one design. A teller, often a friend by the fire, says that something happened to him or to someone he knows. A house, a room or a stretch of road is described so clearly that you can walk through it.
What La stanza nella torre e altri racconti is about
Imagine the same dream visiting you for fifteen years. A red-brick house, tea on a hot lawn, a silent family, and one sentence from the lady of the house, who says that Jack will show you to the room in the tower. You wake in terror every time. Then one summer day, you step out of a car and find the house is real.
This is the opening story of The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories by E. F. Benson, a collection of seventeen ghost tales. Benson wrote them to give readers a few pleasant shivers before bed. Most are told by a friend beside the fire, in calm, clear English, which makes the dread feel close.
A chi è rivolto. Readers who like ghost stories told by firelight, haunted rooms with clear layouts and puzzling cases of the unseen will enjoy this book.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A recurring dream leads to a real house
The title story opens with a narrator who dreams nearly every night and finds most of his dreams ordinary. Then he warns that the story that follows has no easy explanation at all.
At about sixteen, he begins to dream of a large red-brick house. A servant leads him through a dark hall to tea on the lawn, where he meets the family of a schoolmate named Jack Stone. Everyone sits in silence in an airless heat. Then Mrs. Stone tells him that Jack will show him to the room in the tower. His heart sinks, because he knows something dreadful waits there. The door closes behind him, and the terror wakes him.
The dream returns about once a month for fifteen years, and the family ages as real people do. Then, on a drive through Sussex, he wakes at a doorway and finds the house from his dreams. The hostess speaks the old sentence. Benson makes the dread arrive before any proof.
A dream can become a place you are able to walk into.
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Ghosts reach different people through different senses
The Dust-Cloud begins after dinner at a seaside house in Suffolk.
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The dead press their unfinished business on the living
The Confession of Charles Linkworth starts at a prison.
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Local belief can turn dangerous or become family habit
The Shootings of Achnaleish begins in a hot London dining room, where Jim Armytage describes the cheap Highland farmhouse he has rented for the season.
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Strange signs come before anything happens
Caterpillars is set at the Villa Cascana, a lovely house on the Italian Riviera.
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A man chases joy and listens for Pan
The Man Who Went Too Far opens in St Faith's, a Hampshire village at the edge of the New Forest, whose people avoid the woods after dark.
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Rooms and houses keep what happened in them
Outside the Door is told in a moonlit garden on the Norfolk coast.
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Benson treats ghosts as strong feeling left behind
Again and again, Benson's characters explain their ghosts with ideas drawn from his own time.
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Fear is the real subject and courage answers it
Benson's preface says he wants to give readers pleasant shivers, and fear is the book's true subject.
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Calm tellers and cosy rooms make dread close
Most of these stories are told by a man who sits at a fire, a dinner table or a garden bench and simply says what happened.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Mrs. Stone The silent, sinister hostess of the dream house, who is always ready to send a guest to the room in the tower.
- Dr. Teesdale A prison doctor and student of the occult who senses the presence of a hanged man and is drawn into his plea.
- Hugh Graham A Highland host with an interest in folklore who suspects what the gillie Sandy and a reputed witch plan on Gavon's Eve.
- Madge Dalrymple A cheerful cousin of the Peverils who rests her sore knee in the long gallery, a room guests must leave by sunset.
- Dick Alingham A painter whose art flowers after a deep depression and who sets out to finish a portrait of the woman who jilted him.
- Frank Halton A friend who looks twenty at thirty-five and has given up everything to pursue joy and to meet the god Pan.
- Dr. Assheton A brain specialist who believes in science, until his neighbor and friend Louis Fielder shows him a table that throbs in the dark.
How it ends (spoiler)
Most tales close on one short blow. In the title story, the guest learns that Julia Stone killed herself in the tower and her coffin was found full of blood. In Gavon's Eve, Sandy drowns trying to reach Catrine, and both bodies are found. In The Dust-Cloud, the car arrives in Bircham. In The Bus Conductor, a speeding car crashes into a bus at Sloane Square. The Cat and The Man Who Went Too Far end in violent deaths.
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What is The Room in the Tower and Other Stories about?
It is a collection of seventeen ghost stories by E. F. Benson. They range from a dream house that proves real to a phantom car, a haunted hotel bed and a condemned man who telephones his doctor.
Is The Room in the Tower a true story?
No. It is fiction, written as a first-person tale of a recurring dream. Benson often presents his stories as things told by a friend or witness, which gives them the feel of a genuine account.
Which stories does the collection include?
Besides the title story, it contains The Dust-Cloud, Gavon's Eve, The Confession of Charles Linkworth, At Abdul Ali's Grave, Caterpillars, The Cat, The Bus Conductor, The Man Who Went Too Far and The Thing in the Hall, among others.
Is it easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that the language is clear and each tale is self-contained. Most are told in a plain, conversational voice by someone sitting by a fire, so you can read one at a time.
What is the main idea behind Benson's ghosts?
Several characters suggest that strong emotion, such as terror or guilt, can be left in a place and picked up later by sensitive people. Benson shares the idea but lets skeptics argue back.
Cita questa edizione
Benson, E. F. The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-room-in-the-tower-and-other-stories.
Benson, E. F. (2026). The room in the tower, and other stories. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-room-in-the-tower-and-other-stories (Original work published 1912)
Benson, E. F. The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-room-in-the-tower-and-other-stories.
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