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Streszczenie książki Drzewa pychy
- 8 min czytania
- 8 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A Cornish squire braves the haunted peacock trees for a night, vanishes mysteriously, then returns alive.
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Drzewa pychy — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 1 h 40 min1 h 20 min fast, 2 h slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 23 700
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1922by G. K. Chesterton
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Drzewa pychy in short
The Trees of Pride is a puzzle set in a landscape of legend. A confident squire dares a haunted wood, disappears, and leaves behind a hat, a well, a heap of dry bones and a village full of theories. The lawyer suspects the poet, the poet heard a second voice in the wood, and the American critic keeps hunting for his friend's innocence.
What Drzewa pychy is about
What would you do if every servant, tenant and woodcutter on your land told you the same story about three tall trees, and you were sure it was nonsense? Squire Vane of Cornwall decides to prove it, and what follows is one of the strangest nights in English fiction.
The Trees of Pride is a gothic mystery by G. K. Chesterton, set on a rocky Cornish coast beside a wood of foreign trees called the peacock trees. The cast is small: a stubborn squire, his statue-calm daughter, a lawyer, a doctor, a Cornish poet and a cultured American visitor. You get a ghost tale, a detective chase and an argument about belief all at once.
Dla kogo. This book suits you if you enjoy mysteries with a mood of legend, sea air and old trees, sharp dinner-table arguments, and a puzzle turned on its head.
The story in 8 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A squire who proves his reason by being rash
Squire Vane is tall, white-haired and good-humoured, an English schoolboy who never grew up. He has already failed in the diplomatic service, partly by kicking off one boot at the gates of a mosque to show fairness. He eats breakfast outdoors with his daughter Barbara, who has thick red hair and a face as still as a garden statue.
Then he walks down a zigzag path to the shore to meet a guest. On the way, everyone brings up the same subject. The gardener says nothing will grow properly while the foreign trees stand there. Martin the woodcutter, whose daughter lies ill with fever, longs to get his ax into them. Jake the boatman says they look like a sea serpent come ashore to eat the land. Vane answers each with impatience.
Three trunks rise together on a headland, with blue-green leaves marked like the eyes in a peacock's tail. In high wind they are said to cry out. The Squire trusts what he can measure, his people trust what they have been told for generations, and his pride in reason starts to look like a superstition of its own.
When a man boasts that he has no nonsense about him, watch what he does next.
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A guest, a poet, and a legend from Africa
The visitor is Cyprian Paynter, an American critic who lives in Italy and has a gift for admiration.
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A wager and a night of waiting
More than a month later the same company dines in the garden.
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The morning the Squire is gone
In the morning light, everyone waits in odd poses on the lawn.
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A well, a pile of bones and a very dry puzzle
Paynter keeps searching until he finds a path of trampled plants that stops after twenty yards.
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Barbara's secret and the case against the poet
The two men carry the news to Barbara at the garden table.
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Belief and doubt are both put to the test
Under the plot lies an argument about what a reasonable person should accept.
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Whose land, whose stories, and how it is told
The second theme is class and place.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Squire Vane A hearty, rash old landowner who boasts of having no nonsense about him and bets that he can spend a night in the haunted wood.
- Barbara Vane The Squire's red-haired daughter, calm as a statue, who wakes to a deep belief in old powers and the spirit of her land.
- Cyprian Paynter An American critic living in Italy, who collects legends and poets, and turns amateur detective to defend a friend.
- John Treherne A dark, sharp-tongued Cornish poet who defends the old local people and holds a secret about the night of the wager.
- Mr. Ashe A red-haired country lawyer with a Napoleonic face, who collects murderers as a hobby and trusts evidence over legend.
- Dr. Burton Brown The village doctor, tireless with the poor, who works against the fever that haunts the coast and keeps his own counsel.
- Martin A woodcutter with an old black beard, whose daughter is dying of fever, and who hates the foreign trees.
- Miles The yellow-faced butler of the Vane household, silent and watchful, who sees more than the guests at the table.
How it ends (spoiler)
Paynter and a detective in disguise, working with Ashe, close in on Dr. Brown. The doctor calmly explains that the well is really a chimney into a smugglers' cave, where the bones were planted after the tide receded. Squire Vane then steps out of a cliff crack, alive. He had joined a scheme to fake a miracle, then expose it. The doctor shows that the trees were poisoning the village with fever, and that his plot was meant to get them cut down. The trees are already gone.
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Pytania o Drzewa pychy
What is The Trees of Pride about?
It tells of a Cornish squire who dares to spend a night in a wood of legendary peacock trees and vanishes. His friends search for answers, and strange clues, including a hat and dry bones, raise the stakes.
Who are the main characters in The Trees of Pride?
They include Squire Vane, his daughter Barbara, the American critic Cyprian Paynter, the Cornish poet John Treherne, the lawyer Mr. Ashe, Dr. Burton Brown, Martin the woodcutter and Miles the butler.
What are the peacock trees in the book?
They are three tall, blue-green trees on a Cornish headland, said to have been brought from Barbary by an ancestor. A legend of the hermit St. Securis explains their name, and locals blame them for disappearances and fever.
Is The Trees of Pride easy to read?
It is short, has four chapters, and moves through lively scenes of dinner-table talk, sea air, a dramatic night and a mystery. Chesterton's witty, vivid comparisons make it easy to follow and enjoy.
What is the main message of The Trees of Pride?
The book asks how much to trust old stories and the people who tell them. It sets scientific doubt against folk belief, and shows that pride in one's own reason can blind a person as much as superstition.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Chesterton, G. K. The Trees of Pride. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-trees-of-pride.
Chesterton, G. K. (2026). The trees of pride. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-trees-of-pride (Original work published 1922)
Chesterton, G. K. The Trees of Pride. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-trees-of-pride.
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