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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Measure of Daysdi Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I love this series. I think it will be ending soon (after 30 volumes) - they are up to WWI now. ( ) I empathize with the characters from this series more than any other fiction I've read and yesterday while sitting in traffic I realized that while re-reading this book in the series that each day I was SO looking forward to the time I would get to read . . . for the simple reason that I would get to "find out what happens to" ___________ fill in the blank with your favorite characters' names here. As I sat there behind the wheel of my car I wondered what the author must do to elicit such strong empathy? I think the answer is partially that [a:harrod-eagles|130|Cynthia Harrod-Eagles|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg] invests her characters with the time and the psychological complexity to think about one another and that, in and of itself, makes them feel like intimates. The reader knows how they treat one another and sometimes what their motivations were. Whether we are discovering the world of an independent and generous character who's life it is a pleasure to walk alongside or the selfishness or close-mindedness of one of the stories' antagonists, all are concerned with their impact on one another, not merely pushing and shoving to promote themselves. Maybe this alone makes them feel more like friends? Do we come to care about them simply because they care about one another? nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieMorland Dynasty (30)
1916. England is at war, and the Morland family is in the thick of it, with two men already in France and three more soon to go. Tragedy strikes Morland Place when Jessie's husband Ned is reported missing on the Western Front. His father launches a desperate bid to find him, but the family fear the worst. Jessie, in mourning and frustrated by her job as an auxiliary nurse, goes to London to work in a military hospital. There she is reunited with her old friend Oliver, posted to the capital under the RAMC. Also in London is Violet, whose affair with the brilliant artist Octavian Laidislaw is about to erupt in scandal . . . The Measure of Days paints a portrait of a family, and a nation, at war, at a pivotal point in history. With the onset of conscription, no one is left unaffected. Every man must hold himself in readiness; and every woman knows that when she says goodbye, it might be for the last time. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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