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ロビン・リネットのあらすじ

著者： E・F・ベンソン

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Golden boy Robin Linnet plays cricket and pranks at Cambridge while Europe edges toward war.

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初版刊行年: 1919by E・F・ベンソン

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ロビン・リネット in short

Robin Linnet starts as a comedy of youth. Two Cambridge friends joke, wrestle and play cricket in a college guarded by dons who believe nothing should change. Meanwhile Robin's mother runs the most brilliant weekend parties in England, where everyone lives for the moment.

What ロビン・リネット is about

Two friends sit in a candlelit room at St. Stephen's College, Cambridge, reading Socrates. Within minutes the Greek is forgotten. Whisky, a soda siphon, a piece of ice down a collar and a tied-up visitor take over. How long can that last?

Robin Linnet is a novel by E. F. Benson, set in the last summer before the First World War and the months that follow. Robin, nicknamed Birds, and his friend Jim care only for cricket and a good joke, while his dazzling mother, Lady Grote, fears dullness. You get college dons, glittering London weekends and a hospital where a spoiled hostess learns what service means.

対象読者. You will love this book if you enjoy witty dialogue, country house weekends, close portraits of mothers and sons, and a carefree world that meets war.

The story in 10 parts

Key idea 1 · free to read
Two friends share a carefree Cambridge life
The book opens on a hot night in early May. Jim Lethbridge is twenty and Robin Linnet is nineteen, and they have known each other since Eton. They read Plato by one stolen candle, because the electric light has failed.
The Greek does not last. Robin drops a piece of ice down Jim's collar, and a wrestling match follows. A third friend, Badders, looks in and is tied up like a fowl while the others throw paper darts into his open mouth. Robin also dresses in cap and gown over bare skin and imitates his tutor.
The mood changes on the walk to the bridge. The two stand in the starlight and listen to a nightingale. Robin asks what will happen when Cambridge ends. Jim answers that their friendship is part of them now, like footprints in the dew that will always be waiting.
The bond between Robin and Jim is the warm centre the rest of the book will test.
2
The dons defend a Cambridge that never changes
Chapter two moves to the senior side of the college.
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3
Lady Grote and her friends argue about the age
Chapter three leaves Cambridge for Grote, a great house above the Thames.
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A Saturday party shows society at full sparkle
Chapter four describes the weekend parties Lady Grote gives from May to July.
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Helen's shadow and her need to be wanted
On Sunday morning Lady Grote works through her calendar with her secretary.
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A rich hostess hears news of war from her husband
Chapter six moves to Curzon Street, where Aline Gurtner holds the finest dinner of her life.
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War arrives and Robin chooses to go
Back at Cambridge, Robin and Jim sit on a window seat on a Sunday afternoon.
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Helen runs from the war and the Gurtners show their colours
Helen sinks into a stupor after the war begins.
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9
Helen finds a use for her life in the hospital
At a revue, Helen sits between Robin and Jim, both in khaki.
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What the story says about thinking, feeling and love
Two themes run through the book.
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Characters, plot and themes

Main characters

Robin Linnet Called Birds, a nineteen-year-old Cambridge cricketer who loves his friends and his mother and meets every change with cheerful courage.
Jim Lethbridge Robin's closest friend, a year older and steadier, who wants nothing more than to go on exactly as they are.
Lady Grote (Helen) Robin's mother, a dazzling hostess who loves excitement and company and wants to be told she is still young.
Lord Thorley A calm politician and old friend who trusts theories and thinks England never really faces catastrophe.
Aline Gurtner A former governess turned society hostess who wants every friend and every comfort and cannot choose between England and Germany.
Sir Hermann Gurtner Aline's husband, a German-born financier who reads the coming war as a chance to make money.
Kuhlmann A famous German tenor with purring manners who takes everything England offers him.
Jelf The shabby, argumentative editor of Camouflage who mocks every convention and hides a kinder nature.

How it ends (spoiler)

Robin goes to France with Jim and is killed by a shell. His father brings the news to Helen at Grote, and she meets it with courage, then weeps alone through the night. She finds that her love for Robin is not lost but still alive between the two of them. At dawn she tells her old maid that she has found Robin again, and she goes back to her work.

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『ロビン・リネット』についての質問

What is Robin Linnet about?

It follows Robin Linnet, a young Cambridge cricketer, and his glamorous mother, Lady Grote, from carefree college pranks and society parties into the First World War, when each must decide what matters most.

Why is Robin called Birds?

His friends call him Birds because his name combines two birds, the robin and the linnet. The nickname shows the playful closeness between him and Jim Lethbridge at Cambridge.

When is Robin Linnet set?

The story begins in early May of the last summer before the First World War and runs through the first winter of the war. It mixes Cambridge life, London society, and a hospital.

Who are the Gurtners in the novel?

Sir Hermann and Lady Aline Gurtner are rich, German-born hosts in London society. Their divided loyalties, quick speech and showy house form a satire running through the middle of the book.

Is Robin Linnet worth reading today?

Readers enjoy its sharp dialogue, comic set pieces and close portrait of a mother and son. It also shows how English society met the start of the First World War.

この版を引用します

Benson, E. F. Robin Linnet. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/robin-linnet.

Benson, E. F. (2026). Robin Linnet. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/robin-linnet (Original work published 1919)

Benson, E. F. Robin Linnet. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/robin-linnet.

@book{benson2026robin,
  author = {Benson, E. F.},
  title = {Robin Linnet},
  publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/robin-linnet},
  note = {First published 1919}
}