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Streszczenie książki Herb z linią obłokową
- 8 min czytania
- 10 parts
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A young architect hears the arches of a failing tower speak, while a green and silver shield marks every secret.
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Herb z linią obłokową — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 7 h 40 min6 h 5 min fast, 9 h 5 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 109 100
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Wymagająca lektura long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1903by John Meade Falkner
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Herb z linią obłokową in short
The Nebuly Coat follows a young architect who comes to restore a church and finds a town built around a secret. Sharnall wants his organ and some peace. Miss Euphemia wants to pay her debts.
What Herb z linią obłokową is about
What would you do if the arches above your head seemed to speak? Edward Westray, a young architect, steps from a rain-soaked omnibus into the vast church of Saint Sepulchre at Cullerne. Soon he hears the four tower arches repeat one warning. The arch never sleeps.
The Nebuly Coat was written by John Meade Falkner and published in 1903. It is a mystery set in a small English seaport that has lost its trade and kept its great church. Falkner mixes dry comedy, ghostly dread and a patient chase after a hidden family secret.
Dla kogo. Readers who enjoy old churches, heraldry and unfolding mysteries will love this book. It also suits lovers of English country towns, sharp comic portraits and ghost-tinged tales of family secrets.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
An architect arrives in a drowned town
Sir George Farquhar, senior partner of a London firm, sends his junior Westray to Cullerne Minster with a warning. The roofs need work, the money is thin, and the central tower is not to be discussed. Sir George calls the rector an ass but admits he guards the place in law.
Cullerne is a fallen seaport. Now its river has silted up and a sandbar cuts off the harbour.
Canon Parkyn, the rector, greets him with a flood of self-praise and calls the Norman arches light and yet strong as rock. Westray looks up at the crossing and sees a thin jagged crack on the south side. He has been told to let sleeping dogs lie. Yet the old builders' saying comes to him. The arch never sleeps.
The first thing Westray learns in Cullerne is that someone is hiding a danger in plain sight.
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A shield of green and silver haunts everyone
In the dusk of the south transept, Westray notices a great window with a coat of arms at the head of the middle light.
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A faded inn hides a family of strangers
Sharnall takes Westray home past the old Bonding-House, a ruined chapel with deep black spaces between its buttresses.
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A clerk's tale and a painting of flowers
Clerk Janaway, the church sexton, is the town's best talker.
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Someone wants to buy a worthless picture
A letter arrives from London dealers named Baunton and Lutterworth of New Bond Street.
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A stranger sings in the choir stalls
One warm October Saturday, the afternoon service in the choir drifts toward sleep.
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An organist fights his thirst and his fears
Sharnall is the most vivid soul in the book.
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A crack in the tower keeps growing
Westray cannot stop thinking about the crossing arches.
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A small town runs on pride, gossip and debt
Falkner draws Cullerne with a satirist's eye.
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How a ghost story hides in a comedy of manners
The novel changes tone more than once.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Edward Westray A scrupulous young architect sent to restore Cullerne Minster, who fears for its tower and slowly becomes entangled in the town's secrets.
- Mr Sharnall The sharp-tongued, hard-drinking organist who loves his old organ, mistrusts the Blandamers, and keeps Martin Joliffe's papers.
- Miss Euphemia Joliffe A kind, proud, impoverished landlady who struggles to pay her dead brother's debts and guards a family picture.
- Anastasia Joliffe Her niece, a dreamy, bookish young woman who longs for a wider life than the town allows.
- Lord Blandamer The grave, reserved lord of Fording, home after years abroad, who takes a quiet interest in the church and in Bellevue Lodge.
- Canon Parkyn The pompous rector of Cullerne, who boasts of his learning, guards his income and enjoys gossip.
- Clerk Janaway The talkative sexton who remembers every family tale in Cullerne and loves telling them.
How it ends (spoiler)
They prove that Lord Blandamer's father was illegitimate. After facing his rival at Fording, Westray decides to keep the secret. Storm damage brings the tower down. Lord Blandamer frees Westray from the belfry and follows him out as the tower falls, leaving his own fate in the dust.
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Pytania o Herb z linią obłokową
What is The Nebuly Coat about?
It follows a young architect restoring a cathedral-sized church in a decayed seaport. He learns of an old claim to a noble title, a mysterious picture, and a tower that may fall. It blends comedy, ghostly dread and mystery.
What does nebuly mean in heraldry?
Nebuly describes a wavy edge on a shield, traditionally said to resemble clouds. In the book, the Blandamer arms show silver and sea-green wavy bars, and the shield appears all over the town.
Who is Lord Blandamer?
He is the new lord of Fording and owner of the town, back after about twenty-five years abroad. He is grave, courteous and well read, and he offers to pay for the minster's restoration.
When was The Nebuly Coat written, and is it a true story?
John Meade Falkner published it in 1903. It is fiction, set in an invented town called Cullerne, though it draws on real English church architecture, heraldry and country life.
Is The Nebuly Coat easy to read?
Detailed descriptions and digressions bring the town to life while the mystery steadily draws the reader onward.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Falkner, John Meade. The Nebuly Coat. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-nebuly-coat.
Falkner, J. M. (2026). The nebuly coat. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-nebuly-coat (Original work published 1903)
Falkner, John Meade. The Nebuly Coat. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-nebuly-coat.
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note = {First published 1903}
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