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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

火車旁的賽馬。卡西上校的女兒萊迪小姐想騎普林斯,一匹還沒馴好的年輕馬。城裡來的年輕人唐納德·莫利說,沒有哪個姑娘能駕馭牠。上校被激怒,便答應了。萊迪小姐和唐納德騎馬比賽。一列火車鳴笛,普林斯前蹄騰空而起。唐納德問萊迪小姐有沒有受傷。

The world of the book

面對城市的山丘。小說發生在20世紀初美國南部的肯塔基州。在河邊一座長長的山丘頂上,卡西家族世世代代住在一座古老的大宅裡。可是鄰近的城市不斷擴張。山腳下修起了鐵路,出現了一片貧民區,小巷泥濘,還有一家酒館。全書不斷在兩個世界之間來回穿梭。

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