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Краткое содержание: Торчи и Ви
- Чтение: 8 мин.
- 10 parts
- Аудио скоро
A red-haired secretary leads soldiers and a drum corps down Fifth Avenue pushing five giant spools of wire.
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Торчи и Ви — кратко о книге
Краткое содержание: 8 min на чтение
- Время чтения
- Около 4 h 45 min3 h 45 min fast, 5 h 40 min slow
- Длительность
- Слов: 67 500
- Уровень в библиотеке
- Средний longer sentences, everyday words
- Первая публикация
- 1919by Сьюэлл Форд
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Торчи и Ви in short
Torchy and Vee is a book of seventeen quick, funny stories told by a red-haired private secretary who cannot stay out of other people's business. What you keep is a lively picture of a busy city near the end of the Great War, and a warm view of people. Torchy guesses wrong sometimes, but he cares, and the stories reward a quick mind joined to a kind heart.
What Торчи и Ви is about
Picture a young man in an army lieutenant's uniform marching down Fifth Avenue ahead of a borrowed drum corps. Behind him, ten soldiers roll five giant spools of telephone wire toward a hotel tea room, where a grumpy major waits to lose a bet. That is Torchy Ballard on an ordinary working day.
Torchy and Vee is a collection of seventeen linked stories by Sewell Ford. Torchy, the red-haired private secretary to Old Hickory Ellins, tells every tale himself, in quick slang. You get small mysteries, mistaken identities and matchmaking, all set in a city busy with war work.
Для кого. You will enjoy this book if you like cheerful city stories, quick talkers, small mysteries with a smile in them, and ordinary people solving problems with nerve and warmth.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Vee turns a neighbor's trouble into a business
Torchy comes home to find Vee worrying about Marion Gray, a neighbor in Harbor Hills. Marion spent years nursing a demanding invalid father, who kept a silver bell on his chair arm. Both parents are gone, the money has shrunk, and the only suitor in sight is Puffy Biggles, a short-winded insurance man.
Then a dinner supplies the answer. The Ellinses' soup is scorched, and every neighbor is complaining about missing cooks, because kitchen hands now earn good pay in munitions plants. Torchy jokes that an army kitchen should roll from door to door, and Vee stops dead in the road.
Her plan is simple. Marion's old family cook, Martha, will prepare the meals, and Marion will deliver them hot by truck. Torchy sends Biggles away with his derby and gloves, and within a week more than forty families are on the list. Marion, once called an old maid, now drives the truck in riding pants and a smart cap.
A clear plan and a little nerve can turn a dead end into a doorway.
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Torchy wins a bet and catches a spy
A swivel-chair major named Wellby calls Torchy a bomb-proofer, meaning an officer who stays safely at home.
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Two matchmaking schemes bring happiness to strangers
Minnie Casey is a quick-witted typist whose fiancé, Stub Mears, is a private at Camp Mills.
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A garden, a flock of turkeys and an auditor's evening
Vee's sharp-tongued Auntie sneers at the Ballards' garden, and Torchy boasts he will raise ducks, geese, turkeys and even quail.
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A rich sportsman and a boastful officer meet their match
Babe Cutler is a wealthy bachelor who lives on his father's mill dividends.
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Surprises hide in a clerk, a flirt and a movie fan
In the bond room, young clerks tease old Jonesey, an assistant filing clerk who seems to have no past.
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A runaway car, a vanished composer and a ring on a finger
Torchy rides to a country wedding in New Hampshire in a tiny roadster driven by Barry Crane, a dreamy organist.
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Nothing in these stories is quite what it first seems
The steadiest theme is that first looks deceive.
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Kindness, work and the home front hold the stories together
The Great War is always in the background.
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Torchy's voice and the shape of each story
Every tale is told by Torchy himself, and his voice does most of the work.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Torchy Ballard A red-haired private secretary at the Corrugated Trust who talks fast, trusts his hunches and keeps getting pulled into other people's troubles.
- Vee Torchy's resourceful wife, who starts businesses, arranges rescues and matches friends with plans of her own.
- Old Hickory Ellins The stern president of the Corrugated Trust, who enjoys a good bluff and has a soft spot he hides.
- Mr. Robert Ellins Old Hickory's son, a loyal friend who keeps old friendships and often brings Torchy the mysteries.
- Mr. Piddie The anxious office manager who watches the staff for signs of trouble and finds plenty.
- Vincent The polite, fair-haired office boy who adores his mother and falls for the candy counter.
- Marion Gray A Harbor Hills neighbor who has nursed her family for years and needs a new start.
- Lucy Lee A petite Atlanta visitor with many trunks, many admirers and a way of saying Simply wonderful.
How it ends (spoiler)
The stories end one by one, each with its own small answer. Marion's business grows while an old suitor returns. Ernie keeps a happy secret, and Jonesey's past is finally known. Lucy Lee leaves Peyton counting dresses, Barry and Ann ride on together, and Vincent gives up on Mirabelle after Torchy shows him a real home. In the last scene Vincent is pleased to be free of near-vamps and ready to learn from his mistakes.
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Вопросы о книге Торчи и Ви
What is Torchy and Vee about?
It is a collection of seventeen linked comic stories told by Torchy Ballard, a red-haired private secretary at the Corrugated Trust. He and his wife Vee solve small mysteries, arrange romances and handle odd tasks in New York and on Long Island.
Who is Torchy in Sewell Ford's stories?
Torchy is a quick-thinking young New Yorker who rose from office boy to private secretary to Old Hickory Ellins. He is married to Vee, has a baby son, and tells each story in his own breezy slang.
Do the stories need to be read in order?
Each chapter is a complete tale with its own people and puzzle, so you can read them in any order. Reading them in sequence lets you meet Old Hickory, Mr. Piddie, Vincent and other familiar faces again.
Is Torchy and Vee worth reading?
It suits readers who like short, funny tales with quick dialogue and a warm view of people. The slangy narrator keeps things lively, the chapters are short, and each ends with a small surprise or a joke.
Как сослаться на это издание
Ford, Sewell. Torchy and Vee. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/torchy-and-vee.
Ford, S. (2026). Torchy and Vee. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/torchy-and-vee (Original work published 1919)
Ford, Sewell. Torchy and Vee. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/torchy-and-vee.
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