Story summary
Streszczenie książki Krzyk
- 8 min czytania
- 10 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A rich American wants the portrait of a duchess, and an English lord must decide what his pride is worth.
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Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 3 h 40 min2 h 55 min fast, 4 h 20 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 52 200
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1911by Henry James
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Krzyk in short
The Outcry follows a single question through three books. A noble owner is offered a fortune for a treasure, his family is short of money, and a young expert with a clever press campaign turns a private sale into a public cause. The people around him act from mixed motives, and James lets each one speak in their own voice.
What Krzyk is about
What happens when a rich American wants the loveliest portrait in an English country house, and the owner is proud, short of cash and surrounded by people who want him to sell? That is the problem at the heart of The Outcry, a comedy of manners by Henry James. It opens on a spring afternoon at Dedborough Place, where a school feast fills the park and an American collector is expected.
Wealthy American buyers were carrying old masters away from British houses, and newspapers had begun to protest. You get that moment in three books, told through quick, witty talk.
Dla kogo. Readers who enjoy sharp conversation, country house settings and moral puzzles about money and art will love this book. It also suits admirers of comedies of manners and family quarrels.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A calm house is full of quiet bargains
The novel opens at Dedborough Place on a spring afternoon. The park is open to four hundred and fifty schoolchildren, and Lord Theign is giving them advice at the top of his voice.
Two visitors reach the hall before their host returns. Lady Sandgate is a handsome widow and a close friend of the family. Lord John is a slight, neat young man who has driven over with a guest.
Lord John hopes to marry Lady Grace, the younger daughter of the house. His mother, the Duchess, will wipe out the huge gambling debts of Grace's sister if the match is made. Lady Sandgate guesses all of this. She also owns a splendid Lawrence portrait and is quietly eager to sell it. The guest everyone awaits is Mr Breckenridge Bender, who has come to see the Sir Joshua portrait called The Beautiful Duchess of Waterbridge.
Beauty and bargaining share the same rooms.
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Two visitors love the same pictures differently
Mr Bender arrives wanting to do business before tea.
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A sister's debts set a daughter against her father
In the hall Lord John proposes to Lady Grace as plainly as he can.
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A young expert plans to organise a scandal
Book two opens a few weeks later in Bruton Street, in the London home of Lady Sandgate.
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Lord Theign answers the newspaper with a show
Lord Theign arrives at Bruton Street shining like a knight in armour.
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Father and daughter bargain over a promise
Lord Theign meets Grace alone for the first time since Dedborough.
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The outcry grows and the owner comes home
By the third book the exhibition has been open for days, and thousands visit it.
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Who owns a treasure, the family or the nation?
The central question is what an owner owes the public.
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Money and marriage are bartered in every room
Almost every relationship in the book is also an exchange.
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The story is told in talk, rooms and objects
Almost everything happens in conversation.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Lord Theign The proud master of Dedborough Place, short of cash, who hates fuss and insists he can do as he likes with his own pictures.
- Lady Grace His serious younger daughter, who loves the family treasures and finds her own voice against her father and her suitor.
- Hugh Crimble A young art expert in glasses who thinks the Dedborough Moretto may be a rare Mantovano and wants to keep it in England.
- Mr Breckenridge Bender A genial American collector with a big shaven face who wants only the most expensive pictures and pays on the spot.
- Lady Sandgate A charming, clever widow and old friend of Theign, who owns a prized Lawrence portrait and would like to sell it.
- Lord John A neat young nobleman and son of a formidable duchess, who courts Lady Grace and acts as guide to Bender.
- Lady Imber Grace's beautiful elder sister, called Kitty, who gambles heavily and leans on her father to pay her debts.
How it ends (spoiler)
Hugh brings a note from the Milan expert Bardi declaring the picture a Mantovano. Lord Theign accepts Bardi's confirmation, then finds an unsigned cheque for ten thousand pounds on Lady Sandgate's desk as he prepares to write to Bender. He tears it up and leads her toward giving their treasures to the nation, her Lawrence and his painting for the National Gallery. Grace leaves with Hugh, and the Prince is expected.
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Pytania o Krzyk
What is The Outcry by Henry James about?
It is a comedy of manners about an English lord whose family treasure, a painting, is wanted by a rich American collector. Debts, a marriage plan and a newspaper campaign push the owner to a hard choice about selling.
Who is Mr Bender in The Outcry?
Breckenridge Bender is a wealthy American collector who buys famous pictures for large sums in cash. He wants only very costly works, and he speaks in plain, cheerful American phrases that amuse and puzzle the English.
What is a Mantovano in The Outcry?
Mantovano is the name of a rare painter, of whom only seven works are known. Hugh Crimble suspects that the Dedborough portrait, always labelled a Moretto, is really his eighth, which would make it far more valuable.
Was The Outcry written as a play?
It began as a play for the stage, then James turned it into a novel, published in 1911. The book keeps that origin in its scenes, its entrances and its lively dialogue.
Is The Outcry easy to follow?
Much of the book is lively conversation among a small group of people, and each scene has a clear question to settle. The humour, the quick exchanges and the short chapters make the story approachable.
Zacytuj to wydanie
James, Henry. The Outcry. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-outcry.
James, H. (2026). The outcry. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-outcry (Original work published 1911)
James, Henry. The Outcry. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-outcry.
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