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Sto caricando le informazioni... Jeremy and Hamlet (1923)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
1923. Walpole wrote horror novels that tended more towards the psychological rather than supernatural, with a brooding underlying mysticism. The book begins: There was a certain window between the kitchen and the pantry that was Hamlet's favorite. Thirty years ago-these chronicles are of the year 1894-the basements of houses in provincial English towns, even of large houses owned by rich people, were dark, chill, odorful caverns hissing with ill-burning gas and smelling of ill-cooked cabbage. The basement of the Coles' house in Polchester was as bad as any other, but this little window between the kitchen and the pantry was higher in the wall than the other basement windows, almost on a level with the iron railings beyond it, and offering a view down over Orange Street and, obliquely, sharp to the right and past the Polchester High School, a glimpse of the Cathedral towers themselves. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.91Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Very well written stories. ( )