Story summary
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A cowherd girl with a gift for song wins the heart of an English poet in the Tyrolean Alps.
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リネットの概要
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- 読書時間
- 約9 h 20 min7 h 25 min fast, 11 h 5 min slow
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- 133,500語
- ライブラリ内の難易度
- 標準 longer sentences, everyday words
- 初版刊行年
- 1898by グラント・アレン
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リネット in short
Linnet begins as a comedy about a visitor who wants the Tyrol to match his daydreams. It becomes a love story about a singer who has a voice, a village past and a heavy sense of duty. Will and Florian meet her in the high valley, hear her sing, and leave.
What リネット is about
What happens when the place you imagined proves different from what you expected? In Linnet, a tiny English dandy named Florian Wood walks into the Zillerthal, a green valley of the Tyrol, looking for guileless peasants from a picture book. One child scolds her sister in broad Cockney, and his imagined Tyrol begins to fall apart.
It follows Will Deverill, a poet and journalist, who meets a cowherd girl called Linnet, whose voice is the pride of her village.
対象読者. You will enjoy this book if you love Victorian romance with a comic edge, mountain settings, stories about singers, and tales where faith and feeling pull a good heart apart.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
An English dandy hunts for an imaginary Tyrol
The story opens at Zell in the Zillerthal, a green valley famous for the singers and zither players who travel the capitals of Europe. Two young Englishmen arrive on an autumn walking tour. Will Deverill is a poet and journalist who knows the mountains well. Florian Wood is tiny, graceful and so charming that London calls him by his first name alone.
Florian has never crossed the Austrian border, yet he has firm opinions about the Tyrol. He admires peasant women bent under huge baskets of fodder because the sight is picturesque. Then, at a farmhouse, he praises the Hellenic freedom of three children in mountain costume. One girl scolds her sister in pure Cockney and says her father was a waiter at the Criterion in London.
Will explains that the joke is common. Tyroleans leave as peddlers, musicians and waiters, earn money abroad, and come home to spend it in the valley they love. Florian keeps losing illusions, and each time he pretends he expected it. A traveler who loves his picture of a place will keep being surprised by the place itself.
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A voice is praised long before it is heard
The valley is full of voices.
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Linnet arrives with the cows and sings under orders
Linnet first appears at a village festival.
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A roadside shrine and a jealous hunter
Hausberger sends Linnet to guide the Englishmen to a rare fern in the hills.
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Two mornings on a hillside and a sudden departure
Early one morning Will sees Linnet climb the hill behind the inn and follows her to a boulder, where she sits singing alone.
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Innsbruck brings a rich widow and a first concert
In Innsbruck the friends meet Mrs Palmer, a young American widow with a fortune of seven hundred thousand pounds.
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Meran brings secret meetings and a stolen kiss
Meran is a sunny autumn resort of vines and castles, and Hausberger has chosen it for the troupe's next stop.
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An owner's plan and the Church as a weapon
Franz Lindner finds the lovers on the hillside and storms to Hausberger.
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Heart against duty is the real subject
The book's central question is put in a sentence Linnet speaks later, that God and our hearts seem to be at open war.
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A comic narrator, a double cast and a hat feather
Allen tells the story with a smiling, worldly voice.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Linnet A Zillerthal cowherd girl with a magnificent voice and a deep faith, who learns English and books and falls in love with an Englishman.
- Will Deverill An English poet, journalist and amateur composer, kind and modest, who wants to write something great and finds himself deeply in love.
- Florian Wood A tiny, witty man about town who builds opinions from pictures, loves his own cleverness, and guides his friend with comic worldly advice.
- Andreas Hausberger The innkeeper of St Valentin, a well-travelled, cold and shrewd man who trains singers and treats a good voice as a sound investment.
- Franz Lindner A proud young hunter and zither player who wears his feather the Robbler way and means to claim Linnet as his own.
- Rue Palmer A rich, generous American widow with a sharp mind, who admires Will's verse and wants to help him make his name.
- Philippina A cheerful, bold sennerin and singer from St Valentin who flirts easily and follows the troupe on its travels.
How it ends (spoiler)
Franz Lindner, who has killed a cardsharp at Monte Carlo, returns to St Valentin and stabs Andreas Hausberger in the inn. Hunted on the mountain, Franz leaps from a cliff, taking a pursuer with him. Linnet, now free, buries her husband with Rue beside her and gives the inn's money to a village school. In London, Will and Linnet are reunited, and he has already asked the Archbishop for a papal dispensation so that they may marry.
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『リネット』についての質問
What is Linnet by Grant Allen about?
It follows Will Deverill, an English poet, who meets Linnet, a Tyrolean cowherd girl with a remarkable voice. Love, class, money and religion complicate her path from the Zillerthal to concert halls in Innsbruck, Meran and London.
Who is Florian Wood in Linnet?
Florian is Will's tiny, witty friend, a London man about town who loves pretty theories and is known only by his first name. He supplies much of the book's humor and sometimes pushes the plot forward.
What does it mean to be a Robbler?
A Robbler is a young Tyrolean man who wears his hat feather turned the wrong way. It signals readiness to fight; the challenge asks a feather’s price, and the answer is five fingers and a grip.
Why is she called Linnet?
An English traveler gave her the name when she was small, because she sang like a bird. A linnet is a small songbird. Her real name in German is Lina, but the village now uses the English name.
Is Linnet worth reading today?
Yes, if you like romance with humor. Short chapters, lively dialogue, mountain scenes, music and a clear central question about love versus duty make it easy to follow, and the comic narrator keeps the pace bright.
この版を引用します
Allen, Grant. Linnet. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/linnet.
Allen, G. (2026). Linnet. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/linnet (Original work published 1898)
Allen, Grant. Linnet. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/linnet.
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author = {Allen, Grant},
title = {Linnet},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
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note = {First published 1898}
}
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