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Billy Goat Hill

Alice Hegan Rice

Billy Goat Hill

Paper book: €26.99

Digital: €6.99

Original publication
1912
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
636
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Romance, Psychology
Moods
Fall in love, Understand myself
Translated from
English

Book summary

In Kentucky at the start of the twentieth century, an old mansion stands on Billy-goat Hill, a hill the town is slowly swallowing up. Colonel Bob Carsey lives there with his daughter, nicknamed Miss Lady, a free and joyful girl who has grown up out of doors. She falls in love with Donald Morley, a rich and unsteady young man whom the colonel distrusts.

Part love story, part drama, this novel full of humour and tenderness is peopled with colourful characters from the poor part of town.

Written with warmth and simplicity, it is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

Et kappløp til hest ved et tog. Miss Lady, oberst Carseys datter, vil ri Prince, en ung, knapt innridd hest. Donald Morley, en ung mann fra byen, sier at ingen jente kan klare ham. Fornærmet sier obersten ja. Miss Lady…

The world of the book

En ås rett overfor byen. Romanen foregår i Kentucky, en delstat sør i USA, tidlig på 1900-tallet. Øverst på en lang ås ved en elv har familien Carsey bodd i generasjoner i et stort, gammelt hus. Men byen ved siden av…

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