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Sto caricando le informazioni... Jeremy at Crale (1927)di Hugh Walpole
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Two volumes of a 3-volume series about the life of Jeremy. (I have volume 1 somewhere but couldn't find it). Generally I dislike books written from the perspective of children, but it must be said this was very well done. In «Jeremy and Hamlet» the story is about 8-year old Jeremy while in volume 3, «Jeremy at Crale» we follow his life at boarding school of the type of Harrow or Dragon School, perhaps aged 14. Hugh Walpole was the most successful novelist of the turn of the 19-to-20th century. His novels reflect life of a past era that defines Englishness. As Paul Watkins «Stand before your God» shows descriptions of life at English boarding schools are almost timeless. «Jeremy and Hamlet» describes the hallowed days of the golden age of youth, which apart from some details we might also find nearly of any time. Walpole is now mostly forgotten and his books are out of print, but these older editions are still very readable. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
1927. Walpole wrote horror novels that tended more towards the psychological rather than supernatural, with a brooding underlying mysticism. Among his important novels is the semi autobiographical series that includes Jeremy, Jeremy and Hamlet, and this volume, Jeremy at Crale. The book begins: Young Cole, quivering with pride, surveyed the room. So, at last, was one of his deepest ambitions realized. It was not, when you looked at it, a very large room. If, as was the way with many of the other Studies, it had had a table in the middle of it, there would have been precious little space in which to move. But he and Gauntlet Ma, almost at once after their arrival last night, had come to an agreement about this. They would have their own tables in their own corners, leaving the middle of the room free-and Marlowe could lump it. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I preferred the two earlier volumes: there's an awful lot of rugby and squabbles, "honour of the House" and incipent schoolboy crushes.
The child Jeremy we met in previous books- his dog, learning how the world works, the injustices...is now teetering on manhood....indeed, we get hints of his future career as a rugby player, that he goes to fight in France..... ( )