A Stranger at Green Knowe
core novel 1961 Green Knowe
Record
| First published | 1961 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.96 (1,169 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780152025830 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
A Stranger at Green Knowe, published in 1961, is the fourth book in Lucy M. Boston's Green Knowe series. Tolly and his friend Ping both stay at the old house together, where Mrs. Oldknow tells them of Doctor Vogel, a tutor and necromancer who lived and died at Green Knowe centuries earlier and whose dark reputation still clings to the place. Into this setting arrives Professor Melanie D. Powers, a modern-day occultist who comes to Green Knowe under a friendly pretext but is in fact searching for Vogel's old papers for her own sinister purposes. As Powers' true intentions become clearer, her presence sets off a quiet but escalating confrontation between the protective, benevolent forces long associated with Green Knowe and the darker power she represents, with Tolly and Ping caught in the middle of it.
Where it sits
- Universe: Green Knowe
- Series: Green Knowe core; position 4 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Lucy M. Boston
Notes
- ISBN recorded is the Harcourt Young Classics edition (2002); the 1961 first edition predates ISBNs.
- From the series record (Green Knowe): Core Canon = all six novels; complete sequence, no companion material.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Green Knowe: position 4 of 6: previous The River at Green Knowe (1959) · next An Enemy at Green Knowe (1964)
Sources
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