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Streszczenie książki Towarzyski sezon Patty
- 7 min czytania
- 11 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A debutante buried in flowers sets out to brighten other people's Saturdays while three suitors circle.
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Towarzyski sezon Patty — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 7 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 4 h 15 min3 h 25 min fast, 5 h 5 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 61 100
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1913by Carolyn Wells
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Towarzyski sezon Patty in short
Patty's Social Season follows one winter in the life of a young New Yorker who comes out with great fanfare. She enjoys dances and costumes, but she also starts a club to bring happiness to tired working women, and she treats them as guests instead of causes. A man named Lansing divides her friends, and she tries to keep the peace.
What Towarzyski sezon Patty is about
Picture yourself on a drawing room floor, walled in by florist's boxes so thickly that your friends must pull you out for lunch. That is where Patty Fairfield sits on the day she comes out into New York society. She jokes that the whole city has gone mad.
Patty's Social Season was written by Carolyn Wells, an American author of many light, lively novels. It follows one winter in the life of a golden-haired young woman who would rather have fun than fall in love. You get quick, funny talk, an inventive charity club, a Christmas house party and three men who would each like to win her.
Dla kogo. You will enjoy this if you like cheerful period comedies, witty banter, costume balls, and heroines who charm everyone while insisting they have no time for romance.
The story in 11 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Patty comes out buried in flowers
The book opens on the day of Patty Fairfield's debut in her New York home. She sits in the long drawing room, hemmed in by boxes of flowers. Patty declares the whole thing an optical illusion.
One huge box holds roses from Big Bill Farnsworth, a Westerner Patty liked last summer. His card is stiff and formal, and Patty wonders about that. At the reception she says Oh, thank you so many times that she feels like a rubber stamp.
Then Mr. Galbraith, a Chicago man who made a sudden fortune, draws her aside. He fears his headstrong daughter Mona is taken with a man named Lansing, whom he thinks a fortune hunter. Patty promises to help.
Patty's debut is a party, but it also sets the story's first problem in her hands.
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A stranger named Lansing enters the dance
That evening Patty changes into pale green chiffon and leads her father into dinner.
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Four girls found the Happy Saturday Club
The morning after the ball, Patty drinks chocolate in bed and talks it all over with Nan.
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Mrs. Greene accepts an unusual invitation
Patty rides downtown in her little electric runabout to the embroidery company.
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The first Saturday brings joy and a gift
On Saturday the guests gather in Mona's sitting room.
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Friends quarrel and make up at a dance
At dinner afterward, Mr. Fairfield worries that such luxuries may only make the guests discontented.
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A country Christmas begins at Fern Falls
A letter invites Patty to a Christmas house party at Fern Falls in the Berkshires.
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A lost letter, hide and seek, and a sleigh ride
On Christmas morning, Jim teases Patty about a big blue letter in Bill Farnsworth's handwriting that she never receives.
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Kindness without charity runs through the book
The Happy Saturday Club is the book's clearest picture of goodness.
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Patty's butterfly heart and its three suitors
Patty says again and again that she will not fall in love for years.
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How Wells tells it with comedy and costume
The story moves in short scenes, nearly all of them told through conversation.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Patty Fairfield A golden-haired, high-spirited debutante who loves dancing and teasing, and wants to bring joy to others while avoiding serious romance.
- Nan Fairfield Patty's young stepmother, kind and sensible, who supports her stepdaughter's plans and worries about the people around her.
- Mona Galbraith A rich, proud, headstrong friend from Chicago who is drawn to a flattering new acquaintance despite everyone's warnings.
- Philip Van Reypen A refined, humorous New Yorker from an old family who adores Patty and wants her to promise him her heart.
- Roger Farrington A loyal friend who cares deeply for Mona and is angry at the man who has caught her interest.
- Hal Ferris Adèle's big, merry brother who plays the Lord of Misrule and falls quickly for Patty.
- Bill Farnsworth A tall, honest mining man from Arizona who calls Patty his Apple Blossom and doubts he is good enough for her.
- Daisy Dow A pretty but quick-tempered guest at Fern Falls who envies Patty's popularity and plays an unkind trick.
How it ends (spoiler)
Mona and Lansing elope toward Greenwich. Patty calls Bill, who leads a car chase and has Lansing stopped by police at Stamford. He threatens to expose Lansing's crime in Chicago, and Lansing flees. Mona is brought home without scandal. Later Christine marries Mr. Hepworth, and Patty dodges the bouquet. That night Bill asks if he may hope, and Patty teases him. As he leaves for his train, he kisses both her cheeks, and she is left astonished.
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Pytania o Towarzyski sezon Patty
What is Patty's Social Season about?
It follows Patty Fairfield through her first winter in society. She comes out in New York, starts a club that gives working women happy Saturday afternoons, spends Christmas at a country house party, and handles several admirers while helping a friend in trouble.
Who are Philip, Hal and Bill in the book?
They are Patty's three main admirers. Philip Van Reypen is a polished New Yorker, Hal Ferris is the playful brother of her hostess, and Bill Farnsworth is a big, honest mining man from Arizona who sends her poetry.
What is the Happy Saturday Afternoon Club?
It is a small club of four girls, Patty, Mona, Elise and Clementine, who invite someone who seldom has fun to lunch and a drive. The rule is that it must feel like a party among friends, never like charity.
Is Patty's Social Season easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that it is friendly and approachable. The chapters are short, the talk is quick and funny, and the scenes are built around single events such as a lunch, a dance, a game or a sleigh ride.
Is Patty's Social Season part of a series?
It belongs to Carolyn Wells's series about Patty Fairfield, and it works well on its own. The story gives all the background needed about Patty's family, friends and earlier summer acquaintance with Bill Farnsworth.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Wells, Carolyn. Patty's Social Season. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/pattys-social-season.
Wells, C. (2026). Patty's social season. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/pattys-social-season (Original work published 1913)
Wells, Carolyn. Patty's Social Season. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/pattys-social-season.
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author = {Wells, Carolyn},
title = {Patty's Social Season},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
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note = {First published 1913}
}
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