Story summary
Streszczenie książki Pan Opp
- 8 min czytania
- 11 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A pompous small-town dreamer in a checked suit starts a newspaper while his gentle sister waits at home.
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Pan Opp — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 3 h 20 min2 h 40 min fast, 4 h slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 47 700
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1909by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
Reading time at 238 words a minute (fast 300, slow 200). Ile czasu zajmuje przeczytanie klasyków · Zaktualizowano
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Pan Opp in short
Mr. Opp follows a small man with enormous plans who comes home for a funeral and stays to care for his childlike sister. He starts a newspaper, falls in love, promotes an oil boom, and treats every setback as the start of something grander.
What Pan Opp is about
What happens to a man who lives mostly in his imagination when real life asks something of him? In Mr. Opp, a small man in a loud checked suit steps onto a waiting launch, carrying shoe samples and a head full of oil wells and business plans. He has come to bury his stepfather. He stays because of one person.
Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice wrote this gentle comic novel in the early twentieth century. At its center is D. Webster Opp, who turns every failure into the start of a grander plan. The book gives you laughter, unforgettable small-town people, and a hero whose pretending and kindness are hard to tell apart.
Dla kogo. Readers who enjoy warm small-town comedy, eccentric neighbors, river steamboats and a bighearted underdog will love this book. It rewards anyone who likes humor with tenderness in it.
The story in 11 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A showy little man comes home to a funeral
Jimmy Fallows waits on a riverbank for a passenger who is hours late. Jimmy runs a boardinghouse called Your Hotel, and he jokes that the man has a talent for missing things.
When D. Webster Opp finally appears, he is about thirty-five. He wears a plaid suit, a huge scarf pin and new tan shoes, all chosen to be noticed. The only small thing about him is himself. He has come for the funeral of Mr. Moore, his stepfather.
On the launch he pours out plans. He sells shoes now, and he means to buy all the land between Turtle Creek and the river, because oil lies under it. Jimmy asks sensible questions, and Mr. Opp floats right over them. He is drunk, but only on his own imagination.
Big talk often hides a tender heart.
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Behind the Opp gate lies a haunted house
Cove City sits in a bend of the river, eighteen miles from the nearest railroad.
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Ben wants Kippy sent away and Opp refuses
After the funeral, the brothers meet in an upstairs room of Your Hotel.
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One night with Kippy changes his plans
The old Opp house stands on the riverbank like something half paralyzed.
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A newspaper called the Eagle takes flight
Cove City spreads news by telephone and by telling Jimmy Fallows.
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Love and oil arrive in the same season
On a porch at the Gusty house, Mr. Opp finds a girl asleep in a hammock.
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A stranger on the steamboat, a goose on the table
Guinevere boards the Sunny South, and the captain begs her to play the piano for a party of wealthy men.
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The boom, the mother, and a jealous heart
The oil company finds a crevice full of petroleum, and the Cove goes wild.
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Pretending is both his weakness and his armor
Mr. Opp is a talker, and his words always outrun his facts.
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Real love means giving up what you want
The thread that holds the book together is Kippy.
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Humor and tenderness share every page
The voice telling this story is warm, wry and always close to its people.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- D. Webster Opp A small, boastful dreamer who starts a newspaper and chases fortune, while quietly caring for his sister.
- Kippy Mr. Opp's gentle sister, who has a child's mind, loves dolls, fears a presence called It, and clings to her brother.
- Guinevere Gusty A pretty, dreamy girl home from seminary who longs for books and music and bends to her mother's will.
- Mrs. Gusty Guinevere's forceful, sharp-tongued mother, who runs everyone around her and wants her daughter safely married.
- Willard Hinton A bitter young secretary and would-be author whose eyesight is failing and who has lost his purpose.
- Nick Fenny The thin, tireless young printer who does the real work of the paper and loves the news.
- Jimmy Fallows The round, teasing hotel keeper and undertaker who passes information along Main Street and jokes about everything.
- Aunt Tish The old servant of the Opp house, scarred by an old fight, who cares for Kippy and fears ghosts.
How it ends (spoiler)
Mr. Opp is cheated of his stand in the oil sale, and learns Kippy has fled to the asylum. He brings her home and releases Guinevere from her promise. Hinton buys the paper and renames it. Hinton and Guinevere marry. Mr. Opp, stripped of his illusions, faces himself and finds his character. At the banquet in his honor he leaves early to mend his sister's broken doll, walking home through the snow.
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Pytania o Pan Opp
What is Mr. Opp about?
It follows D. Webster Opp, a boastful dreamer in a Kentucky river town who starts a newspaper, chases oil wealth, falls in love, and cares for his childlike sister Kippy. It is a comic and tender small-town story.
Who is Kippy in Mr. Opp?
Kippy is Mr. Opp's half sister. She is a grown woman with a child's mind who plays with dolls and fears a presence she calls It. Her brother protects her, and her welfare shapes his choices.
What is The Opp Eagle?
The Opp Eagle is the weekly newspaper Mr. Opp starts in Cove City. His grand editorials and young Nick Fenny's plain local news fill its pages, and it becomes the town's center of talk.
Is Mr. Opp a true story, and when was it written?
It is a work of fiction, written in the early twentieth century by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice. The Cove is an invented Kentucky river town, though it draws on the manners and speech of the region.
Is Mr. Opp easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that matters. The chapters are short, the scenes are funny and vivid, and the dialogue sounds like real people talking. A reader can follow it easily and enjoy the humor right away.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan. Mr. Opp. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/mr-opp.
Rice, A. C. H. (2026). Mr. Opp. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/mr-opp (Original work published 1909)
Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan. Mr. Opp. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/mr-opp.
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