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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

火车旁的赛马。卡西上校的女儿莱迪小姐想骑普林斯,一匹还没驯好的年轻马。城里来的年轻人唐纳德·莫利说,没有哪个姑娘能驾驭它。上校被激怒,便答应了。莱迪小姐和唐纳德骑马比赛。一列火车鸣笛,普林斯前蹄腾空而起。唐纳德问莱迪小姐有没有受伤。

The world of the book

面对城市的山丘。小说发生在20世纪初美国南部的肯塔基州。在河边一座长长的山丘顶上,卡西家族世世代代住在一座古老的大宅里。可是邻近的城市不断扩张。山脚下修起了铁路,出现了一片贫民区,小巷泥泞,还有一家酒馆。全书不断在两个世界之间来回穿梭。

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