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The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars)

Gelesen von Daryl Wor

(4,76 Sterne; 25 Bewertungen)

The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) published in 1920, finds Peggy and her friends preparing for The Great War. Young men they had known as boys are signing up to train and fight as soldiers, while the girls find themselves looking for what they can do to help. Priscilla, and Amy join Peggy in The Land Army to assist in agricultural labour usually left to men of the period. Ruth, of weaker health, must remain on Friendly Terrace but manages to find her own way to be useful. In the station of The Land Army, known as The Poplars, Peggy, Priscilla and Amy meet many other young women who have come to lend aid, discovering their strengths and weaknesses, secrets and triumphs. (Summary by Daryl Wor) (5 hr 10 min)

Chapters

Chapter One: An End And A Beginning

11:48

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Chapter Two: Liberty Bond

15:53

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Chapter Three: Ruth Finds Her Niche

16:06

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Chapter Four: Sticking Tomatoes

17:38

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Chapter Five: A Day At Beechwood

16:58

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Chapter Six: ‘What’s In A Name?’

13:20

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Chapter Seven: Peggy Sets A Ball Rolling

14:27

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Chapter Eight: Settling A Question

15:42

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Chapter Nine: As One Sows

16:41

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Chapter Ten: Winston Is Heard From

14:02

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Chapter Eleven: Lending A Hand

15:57

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Chapter Twelve: Saving The Peach Crop

14:53

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Chapter Thirteen: A Sunday Afternoon

13:05

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Chapter Fourteen: Absent Without Leave

15:13

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Chapter Fifteen: A Letter

13:15

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Chapter Sixteen: A Hero of Their Own

15:15

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Chapter Seventeen: Peggy Acts As Bridesmaid

12:20

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Chapter Eighteen: Two’s Company

13:58

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Chapter Nineteen: Propaganda

15:21

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Chapter Twenty: A Runaway

12:56

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Chapter Twenty-One: Good-By Summer

15:16

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Bewertungen

Pleasant Read

(4 Sterne)

A pleasant story of high school senior girls of the era. There is plenty of conflict, but we'll done and appropriate for all ages without sex or violence.