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Linnet

Grant Allen

Linnet

Paper book: €59.99

Digital: €14.99

Original publication
1900
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
1120
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Romance
Moods
Fall in love, Understand myself
Translated from
English

Book summary

In a valley in the Tyrol, two young Englishmen on their travels, Will Deverill, a poet and musician, and his friend Florian Wood, discover Linnet, a young dairymaid who sings with an exceptional voice. The village innkeeper, her singing teacher, wants to make her an opera singer and marry her. But a jealous young hunter is courting her too.

From mountain pastures to the opera stage, a story of love and ambition in which a rare voice draws every eye.

Told with humour, this story is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

A girl who sings like a bird. In autumn, in the Tyrolean Alps, the cows come down from the mountain with flowers on their horns. Behind them, the girl who tends the herd is singing. Two English travellers stop, struck…

The world of the book

From Tyrolean pastures to London theatres. The novel opens in the Zillertal, a valley in the Austrian Alps. In summer, young women live alone up on the high pastures in wooden huts, tending the cows and making cheese.…

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