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High Rising di Angela Thirkell
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High Rising (originale 1933; edizione 2014)

di Angela Thirkell (Autore)

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Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the delicate social fabric of the village. Can clever, practical Laura rescue George from Miss Grey's clutches and, what's more, help his daughter Miss Sibyl Knox to secure her longed-for engagement? Utterly charming and very funny, High Rising is irresistible comic entertainment.… (altro)
Utente:casvelyn
Titolo:High Rising
Autori:Angela Thirkell (Autore)
Info:London: Virago
Collezioni:Lifetime reading, Read 2020-2029, Letti ma non posseduti
Voto:**1/2
Etichette:fiction, England, 1930s, English author, 1930s fiction, read in 2022

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High Rising is rather a delightful nothing. I perhaps should like Thirkell more than I do, seeing as how she sits somewhere between my favourite novelist Barbara Pym and one of my more obscure pleasures, E.F. Benson, author of the Mapp and Lucia series. Thirkell is much kinder to her characters than Benson is (although not without a sense of cosmic justice), and her character examinations are less sharp than Pym's - not lacking in sharpness, mind you.

High Rising is the first in a series of almost 30 novels, which Thirkell wrote over the course of her lifetime, chronicling the same county (a century removed) from Trollope's more famous 19th century novels. So perhaps later in life, when I have run out of material, I will return here. Lengthy series in which little happens beyond character analysis are hard to find, and right up my alley. For now, though I will leave it to more interested parties. ( )
  therebelprince | Oct 24, 2023 |
Laura Morland, una exitosa escritora de «buenos malos libros», se dispone a pasar unas semanas de feliz reposo en su casa de campo en el pueblecito de High Rising. Una vez allí, sin embargo, se ve envuelta en una maraña de pequeñas intrigas provincianas que exigirán toda su atención. Por un lado, tratará de impedir que su acaudalado amigo y vecino George Knox sucumba a los encantos de Miss Grey, una secretaria cazafortunas. Por el otro, hará lo posible por emparejar a su editor londinense –que dista mucho de ser un donjuán– con Miss Sybil, la dulce e ingenua hija de Knox. Todo ello mientras a su alrededor pulula, y a menudo estorba, un elenco de personajes tan exasperantes como divertidos, entre los que destacan su hijo Toby, un chiquillo resabiado y experto en asuntos ferroviarios, y Stoker, la entrometida ama de llaves. ¿Conseguirá Laura devolver la paz a High Rising y, de paso, a sí misma?

Bienvenidos a High Rising, la primera entrega de una saga ambientada en el condado ficticio de Barbetshire, es una inmejorable puerta de acceso a la literatura de Angela Thirkell. Gracias a su talento satírico y a una prodigiosa habilidad para tejer y destejer tramas sentimentales, Thirkell es una de las mejores cronistas de la vida de las clases acomodadas y los pequeños terratenientes de la campiña inglesa.
  bibliotecayamaguchi | Jun 28, 2023 |
This is Angela Thirkell's first book in the Barsetshire series. Quite enjoyable, but not as humorous as [b:Northbridge Rectory|835444|Northbridge Rectory|Angela Thirkell|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178768577s/835444.jpg|821058]. ( )
  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
High Rising is a delightful novel. It’s the first of a 30-book series known as the Barsetshire chronicles. These books are social comedy, focussed on matrimony and generally lighthearted and humorous. High Rising’s witty style, its clearly developed and mostly sympathetic characters, its plot surprises, and gentle satire of the conventions of social comedy made it a pleasure to read.

The story is set in the early part of the 20th century in the fictitious rural county of Barset, where main character Laura Morland has a summer cottage in the village of High Rising. Laura is a successful “good bad writer” of mysteries, who is “happily widowed” with no wish to change her station. Laura lives with the youngest of her four sons, Tony, whose all consuming interest in trains and incessant talking make him obnoxious and boring to everyone but himself. He is a great source of humor in the novel. Another writer lives in the adjoining village of Low Rising. George Knox, also widowed, writes successful historical biographies. With George lives Sybil, his twenty-year old daughter, and lots of dogs, puppies, and horses, which Tony loves almost as much as trains. And also part of the Knox household is George’s brand new secretary, Una.

The plot is set in motion when George’s longtime secretary leaves to care for a sister in ill health, and George has to hire someone new. He selects Una Grey from a list of applicants, an attractive young woman very competent in all she sets out to do, be it typing, running the household, nursing the sick, or general management of everyone. It soon becomes clear to all except George that Una plans to marry him, and in general dismay, the servants, his daughter, and his closest friends, Laura among them, set out to prevent such an undesirable match.

Scenes and evolving relationships are developed carefully, characters are well established, and the novel moves at a good pace to its somewhat surprising conclusion. Thirkell’s writing is witty and clear, making for a well-crafted and satisfying story that I can recommend without reservation. ( )
  dianelouise100 | Apr 5, 2023 |
Angela Thirkell is a good writer. I think I'd like to try some more of her books.
That said, it's hard for me to know exactly what to say about "High Rising." It feels like a transition between old-fashioned and modern, and for that reason I'm not sure fans of old-fashioned atmosphere would be totally satisfied, though I personally lean towards liking it a good deal.

Laura Morland, a widow (probably in her 40's) with the last of her 4 sons still at home, writes novels for a living. But this isn't about her writing career. Instead it's about her neighbors and their little dramas and joys and sorrows. It's an ironic book and often funny. Whether it's her quick-witted, self-sacrificing secretary, her scholarly and eccentric neighbor who loves to hear himself talk, or any of the other characters, it's fun to read. It's not a love story, although a couple of engagements do happen...it's just a few months in the life of these friends and neighbors. The things that happen loom large in the moment but are, in reality, fairly small. The kind of book where the ending isn't really a big deal, it's more about just taking each page and enjoying the flow of events. Reminded me somewhat of D.E. Stevenson's Miss Buncle books. ( )
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Thirkell, Angelaautore primariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Bond, JillyReaderautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Colmer, RoyProgetto della copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Smith, Alexander McCallIntroduzioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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‘It’s not highbrow. I’ve just got to work. You see, my husband was nothing but an expense to me while he was alive, and naturally he is no help to me now he’s dead, so I thought if I could write some rather good bad books, it would help with the boys’ education’.
`With our immense resources [said the publisher] we can give you double the advertisement you are at present having. If you have something new and delightful in preparation, and are not yet committed to Coates, may we have the pleasure of having a first sight of your manuscript?’

`Well, you see,’ said Laura, `what I say about advertising is, if you spend all that money on advertisements, it’s got to come off my royalties, hasn’t it?’
Oh the exhaustingness of the healthy young!   Laura had once offered to edit a book called Why I Hate my Children, but though Adrian Coates had offered her every encouragement, and every mother of her acquaintance had offered to contribute, it had never taken shape.   (Chap. II: “High Rising”)
“And I know I'm a fool, and anyway I can't understand poetry except the bits in anthologies, but I couldn't understand yours at all.”  (Chap. IV: “Christmas Eve”)
Indeed she had never known intimately that pale and shadowy lady, who enjoyed ill health until she went too far and let herself die.   (Chap. VII: “An Author at Home”)
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Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the delicate social fabric of the village. Can clever, practical Laura rescue George from Miss Grey's clutches and, what's more, help his daughter Miss Sibyl Knox to secure her longed-for engagement? Utterly charming and very funny, High Rising is irresistible comic entertainment.

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