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Torchy and Vee

Sewell Ford

Torchy and Vee

Original publication
1919
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
407
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Romance
Translated from
English

Book summary

Seventeen linked comic stories, told by Torchy in the everyday speech of New York. Once a red-haired office boy, now private secretary to the president of a large company, Torchy is married to Vee and has a baby. The stories take place in 1918 and 1919, in New York and its suburbs, at the end of the First World War. At the office and at home, he helps his colleagues, neighbours and friends in his own way, often in matters of love. A lively, funny look at American life of the period.

The plot

A young New Yorker’s life, told with humor. Torchy, a red-haired young man, is secretary to the boss of a big New York company. He is married to Vee.

The world of the book

New York at the end of the First World War. The book takes place in 1918 and 1919. Many young Americans have gone to fight in France. In New York, office workers take the train home every evening to the small towns…

The author

Sewell Ford 1868 – 1946. Sewell Ford was born in Maine, in the northeastern United States. For thirty-five years, he worked as a journalist in Boston, Baltimore and New York. He also created Torchy, a young red-haired…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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