The Spring Song: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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The Spring Song is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Reid, Forrest (1875–1947).
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"The Spring Song" by Forrest Reid is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Griffith Weston (Grif), a sensitive boy spending the summer with his clergyman grandfather in the countryside, where music, dreams, and the natural world stir his imagination. Eccentric adults—a nocturnal organist and an old sea-captain with his sisters—signal a gentle mystery threaded with hints of the supernatural. The tone is pastoral and inward, suggesting a coming‑of‑age story in which Grif’s inner life and strange encounters shape a quiet adventure. The opening of the novel introduces Grif and his siblings arriving by train to their grandfather’s glebe house under the watch of Miss Johnson and accompanied by Pouncer the bulldog. Grif meets the odd organist Clement Bradley and, choosing a room by the wood, lies awake amid whispering trees and a faint flute‑note that deepens the book’s dreamy mood. A croquet tournament is planned; Edward returns early from school with his clever friend Palmer Dorset, family dynamics spark (including Edward’s resented nickname “Angelina”), and Miss Johnson’s melodramatic manuscript provides comic relief at dinner. Wandering next day through the wood, Grif slips through a garden door to the red‑brick home of Captain Narcissus Batt and his sister Miss Nancy, is kindly received, and hears of the absent Billy Tremaine before drifting to the church, where Bradley startles at a “ghost” and discovers Grif’s sweet voice; when Grif finally returns late, worried adults and a curate await him, and the canon quietly explains that Billy died, darkening the gentle mystery that has begun.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The Spring Song
- Author credits: Reid, Forrest (1875–1947)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Ghost stories
- Ireland -- Fiction
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- Vacations -- Fiction
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- Category: British Literature
- Category: Novels
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