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Resumo de Pedreiras de Flamsted
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A child's hymn on a New York stage pulls three strangers toward a granite town in Maine.
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Pedreiras de Flamsted em resumo
Resumo: 8 min de leitura
- Tempo de leitura
- Cerca de 8 h 25 min6 h 40 min fast, 10 h 5 min slow
- Duração
- 120.700 palavras
- Nível na biblioteca
- Médio longer sentences, everyday words
- Primeira publicação
- 1910by Mary E. Waller
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Pedreiras de Flamsted in short
Flamsted Quarries follows one song and the lives it touches. A child in a New York theater sings a hymn, and a student, a financier and a priest hear it. The orphan Aileen Armagh grows up in Flamsted, Maine, where a granite boom is changing everything.
What Pedreiras de Flamsted is about
What happens when a child's hymn reaches the wrong ears, or perhaps the right ones? In a crowded New York vaudeville house, a small girl billed as the Little Patti sings about a green hill far away, and the gallery goes silent. Three men in the audience are stirred, and none will forget it.
Flamsted Quarries is a novel by Mary E. Waller. It follows the orphan Aileen Armagh from the stage to a city asylum and then to a granite town in Maine, where new quarries feed an old feud. You will see how ambition is sold as progress, and what it costs those who believe in it.
Para quem é. Readers who love American small-town sagas, stories of immigrants and workers, and warm, talkative characters will enjoy this book. It suits anyone drawn to ambition, loyalty and second chances.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A child's hymn stirs three men in the audience
In a New York vaudeville house, the Little Patti has sung for six weeks. She stands in a snow scene as a match girl in rags, and the gallery roars its approval. Then she changes the mood.
Backstage the girl, whose name is Aileen, refuses the usual comic number. Nonna Lisa, the old Italian woman who looks after her, scolds and dresses her at once. She runs back on in white and sings a quiet hymn about a green hill far away. A woman sobs, and a man high above who draws breath to jeer has a wool cap pushed between his lips. When the gentleman in the box drops roses into her lifted skirt, there is no applause at all.
Three men are moved. One is a student, Champney Googe. One is the financier Henry Van Ostend. The third is the priest Father Honoré. At the theater door they brush past one another without a word.
One small song can set three lives on a shared course.
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Two orphans find a Marchioness across the street
Six months later Aileen is in an orphan asylum with three hundred other girls, and the priest has helped put her there.
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A quarry town divides into old and new
Part Two moves to Flamsted, Maine, a lake town at the foot of the mountains.
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Aileen arrives and charms a whole household
Father Honoré brings Aileen to Flamsted, where she climbs a stool to write her own name in the Greenbush register.
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Champney leaves to chase money abroad
Champney longs for a place on Wall Street, but Mr. Van Ostend offers him five years of work in Europe studying banking.
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The current of New York pulls Champney downstream
Part Three is called In the Stream, and Waller turns the title into an image.
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Money fails, men go unpaid, and a hunt begins
That autumn the quarrymen of Flamsted have not been paid for two weeks.
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Two proud women and a loyal friend face the cost
Once the chase is on, the book turns to the people left behind.
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The book asks what a new America is built from
Waller opens her book with the Battery and its immigrant ships, and she returns to that image again and again.
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How the story is told: water, stone and song
Waller tells her story with a warm, talkative narrator who often steps in with a comment on life.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Aileen Armagh An Irish orphan and gifted singer, quick-tempered and loyal, she wants a home of her own and a love that is true.
- Champney Googe A bright, self-centered young man from the Gore, he wants to get rich fast and learn to be somebody in New York.
- Father Honoré A French-born priest and stone mason who serves the quarrymen, he wants to help the lost and the lonely find their feet.
- Aurora Googe Champney's proud, beautiful mother, she has sold her family land and wants her son to succeed beyond all others.
- Almeda Champney The rich, hard widow of Champ-au-Haut, she guards her money and her old grudges more fiercely than her own heart.
- Octavius Buzzby The faithful handyman of the great house, he wants fair play and quietly defends those whom the family wrongs.
- Luigi Poggi A gifted Italian singer who becomes a fruit merchant, he wants to win Aileen and a respected place in town.
- Colonel Milton Caukins A windy booster and deputy sheriff with a huge family, he wants Flamsted to prosper and his neighbors to prosper with it.
How it ends (spoiler)
Champney returns to Flamsted after more than six years without his freedom. He returns to Flamsted, works in the sheds and marries Aileen, who has always loved him. Almeda Champney dies leaving her fortune to the Van Ostends. Years later Father Honoré, who is also the boy Jean from Dieppe, dies saving two children from a falling derrick. Sister Ste. Croix, his lost Little Trout, cradles him, and the quarrymen cut his tomb from granite.
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Dúvidas sobre Pedreiras de Flamsted
What is Flamsted Quarries about?
It follows Aileen Armagh, an orphan singer from New York, as she grows up in a Maine granite town. There her life becomes entwined with Champney Googe, an ambitious young man, and Father Honoré, a priest who serves the immigrant quarrymen.
Who is Father Honoré in Flamsted Quarries?
He is a French-born priest who comes to Flamsted to serve the quarrymen. He is a mason, a violinist and a teacher, and he becomes friend and guide to Aileen, Champney and Aurora Googe.
Is Flamsted Quarries a true story?
No, it is a novel by Mary E. Waller, and Flamsted is an invented town. It draws on the real quarry boom of Maine and the immigration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
What does the title Flamsted Quarries mean?
It names the granite quarries that transform the town of Flamsted and also the company that runs them. The stone stands for work, strength and the building of a new community.
What is the main message of Flamsted Quarries?
Waller argues that real worth comes from honest work, loyalty and love, not from wealth. She also shows that a country grows stronger when it welcomes newcomers and gives people a way to start again.
Cite esta edição
Waller, Mary E. Flamsted Quarries. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/flamsted-quarries.
Waller, M. E. (2026). Flamsted quarries. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/flamsted-quarries (Original work published 1910)
Waller, Mary E. Flamsted Quarries. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/flamsted-quarries.
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note = {First published 1910}
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