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Streszczenie książki Zranione imię
- 8 min czytania
- 10 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A quiet army engineer guards a box of jewels in the Arizona desert, and a night of gunfire puts his name at risk.
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Zranione imię — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 4 h3 h 10 min fast, 4 h 45 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 57 300
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Wymagająca lektura long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1898by Charles King
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Zranione imię in short
A Wounded Name follows one honest officer through a chain of trouble. Loring prosecutes a cheating captain named Nevins, accepts a package of jewels as a favor, and loses them in a night attack on the Gila. A sea voyage, a wreck and a headquarters full of gossip then turn a loss of property into a loss of reputation.
What Zranione imię is about
What happens to a young officer when his good name is taken from him along with a box of jewels? A Wounded Name opens at a dusty stage stop in Arizona, where a lieutenant argues with a bowing ranch keeper about a stolen pair of binoculars. Soon a gambling officer named Nevins slips away from his own court-martial.
Charles King wrote this army novel about the years just after the Civil War. Its hero is Walter Loring, a quiet West Pointer who does his duty and says little about himself. The title comes from Shakespeare, and the book asks who guards a man's name and who can heal it once it is hurt.
Dla kogo. You will enjoy this if you like army stories of the old West, desert chases, courtroom scenes and a quiet hero who proves himself by deeds.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A ranch hides a nest of thieves
The book opens at Sancho's ranch, a mud-walled stage stop on the Gila River in Arizona. Sancho is the bowing, soft-spoken keeper. Lieutenant Blake, a long-legged infantry officer serving with cavalry, knows the place as a den of thieves. He is sure Sancho hides a government signal glass that a deserter traded for whiskey.
Blake demands it and gets a battered old lorgnette, handed over with a grand bow. He strides toward a bedroom door and stops short at the sight of two women. The girl, a dark-eyed sixteen-year-old named Pancha, watches him ride away from behind a curtain.
At Gila Bend he meets an old classmate, Walter Loring of the engineers, quiet, exact and a little sad. Soon the stage brings a colonel named Turnbull, who reads that Captain Nevins, an officer on trial, has run off. In this country, politeness is often the cover for trouble.
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A political favorite turns a supply camp into a gambling den
Chapter two explains how Nevins became an officer at all.
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A tearful plea wins the court but strikes Loring
Weeks later the court at Camp Cooke has nearly finished with Nevins.
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A guitar song draws the guard away
Loring knows the jewels are a danger.
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A voyage south brings a frightened girl aboard
Loring recovers at Yuma, then sails on the steamer Idaho with Turnbull.
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A collision in the fog tests Loring's nerve
On the final night a cold fog rolls in off the California coast.
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An arrest, a goodbye and a frightened major
Geraldine and Naomi sail east after word comes that Nevins has died in Mexico.
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A good name is easy to lose and hard to mend
The title points at the book's first concern.
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Nobody is quite what they seem
Nearly everyone in the book wears a mask.
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How the story is told and what to notice
King tells the story in a lively voice, and the narrator steps forward now and then to explain.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Walter Loring A grave young engineer and judge advocate who does his duty in silence and wants only to clear his name and keep his honor.
- Gerald Blake A tall, hot-tempered lieutenant with cavalry dreams who hates Sancho's ranch and wants to make up for being fooled.
- Pancha A sixteen-year-old girl raised among Sancho's circle who wants to protect her father and to do right by the officers she wronged.
- Captain Nevins A gambling officer with a political patron who wants to escape punishment and keep the money he took.
- Sancho The courteous, scheming keeper of the ranch on the Gila who wants profit from every traveler and no trouble from the army.
- Geraldine Allyn A gifted singer who once promised to marry Loring and now wants security for herself and her sister.
- Colonel Turnbull A veteran inspector who sits on the court, trusts Loring and wants Nevins caught and tried fairly.
- Captain Moreland The bluff master of the Idaho who admires Loring's courage and wants the truth about the wreck known.
How it ends (spoiler)
Loring is cleared at his court in Omaha. Pancha, Blake and others testify that Nevins planned the robbery, and Nevins leaps from a window, is caught again and later dies. The court acquits Loring on every charge. Years later Loring visits Pancha at the convent and finds her grown. They marry, and Captain Moreland greets Mrs. Loring aboard his new steamer. Loring tells her that she has healed his wounded name.
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Pytania o Zranione imię
What is A Wounded Name about?
It follows Walter Loring, a young army engineer who prosecutes a cheating officer named Nevins in Arizona, is robbed of jewels in his keeping, and then has to defend his reputation after a shipwreck and a string of rumors.
Who is Pancha in A Wounded Name?
Pancha is a sixteen-year-old girl living at Sancho's ranch in Arizona. She is caught between her family's schemes and her sympathy for the officers, and her path crosses Loring's on a steamer and in a San Francisco convent.
What does the title A Wounded Name mean?
The title comes from a line of Shakespeare placed at the start of the book. A wounded name is a hurt reputation, and the story follows how Loring's good name is attacked and what it takes to heal it.
When was A Wounded Name set and is it a true story?
The setting is the years just after the Civil War, in Arizona, on the Pacific coast and in the Platte country. It is a novel, though it uses real conditions of army life such as brevet ranks and frontier posts.
Is A Wounded Name easy to follow?
Yes. The chapters are short and the plot moves from a desert ranch to a shipwreck to a courtroom. Clear scenes, lively dialogue and humorous side characters make it easy to follow from the first page.
Zacytuj to wydanie
King, Charles. A Wounded Name. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-wounded-name.
King, C. (2026). A wounded name. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-wounded-name (Original work published 1898)
King, Charles. A Wounded Name. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-wounded-name.
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note = {First published 1898}
}
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