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The Green Mouse

Robert William Chambers

The Green Mouse

Paper book: €18.99

Digital: €4.99

Original publication
1910
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
385
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Moods
Get the chills, Have a laugh
Translated from
English

Book summary

In New York at the start of the twentieth century, William Destyn, a penniless young man, makes a living from magic tricks with mice dyed every colour. One of them, a green one, escapes into the flat of his neighbour, Ethelinda, a young painter. Now her husband, William invents a device that picks up “psychic currents” and links two people made for each other.

With Ethelinda and her sister-in-law Sacharissa, he sets up a company called The Green Mouse to make his fortune. But every test leads to unexpected and comic encounters, in a light fantasy that has fun with science and love.

Its lively dialogue makes it an enjoyable read in the language you are learning.

The plot

آلة للعثور على الحب. صنع ويليام، المخترع الشاب، آلة يُفترض أن تجمع بين شخصين خُلق كل منهما للآخر. لكن أخت زوجته ساكاريسا لا تؤمن بها.

The world of the book

نيويورك نحو 1910، في عالم الأثرياء. تدور أحداث الرواية في نيويورك نحو عام 1910. تعيش أغنى العائلات في بيوت كبيرة على الجادة الخامسة، قبالة سنترال بارك. لديها خدم وسيارات. إنه زمن الاختراعات: الهاتف، والمصعد، والرسائل…

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