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As a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie. Mrs. Miniver's adventures have charmed millions. This edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the book's orginal publication in the U.S., features a new introduction by Greer Garson, who won the Academy Award as best actress for her role as Mrs. Miniver.… (altro)
souloftherose: Both are collections of short stories which show how the lives of the middle-class in Britain were changed by WWII. Mrs Miniver covers the period leading up to the outbreak of war whilst Good Evening Mrs Craven covers WWII itself.
La signora Miniver è una sorta di romanzo di ambientazione in cui Jan Stuther ricostruisce attraverso 37 scenette famigliari la vita di una famiglia borghese inglese alla fine degli anni Trenta. La guerra era alle porte e iniziava a scandire il ritmo tranquillo della vita degli inglesi ed il merito della Struther è proprio quello di contrapporre agli echi dei cannoni, ancora lontani, la vita tranquilla di una normale famiglia inglese. La famiglia della signora Miniver ha appena finito le vacanze e torna a Londra, in attesa di passare i fine settimana nella casa di campagna a Starlings, nel Kent. Il rapporto della signora Miniver con il marito Clem è di grande complicità, il tempo non ha scalfito la solidità della coppia, anzi, e la presenza di tre figli rende ancora più forte il matrimonio. La signora Miniver è una donna abitudinaria, ordinata, la classica signora inglese attenta alle forme. Splendido il capitolo finale in cui la signora Miniver dichiara di conservare, da 17 anni, la lista dei regali di Natale. La signora Miniver è un romanzo pieno di citazioni che mi ha ricordato “La saga dei Cazalet” di Elizabeth Jane Howard, il racconto immersivo in cui l’ambiente conta più della storia. La Struther ha scritto solo questo romanzo ed è un peccato. ( )
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This book, while produced under wartime conditions, in full compliance with government regulations for the conservation of paper and other essential materials, is COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
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My thanks are due to the Proprietors and Editor of The Times, in which these articles originally appeared.
J.S.
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It was lovely, thought Mrs. Miniver, nodding good-bye to the flower-woman and carrying her big sheaf of chrysanthemums down the street with a kind of ceremonious joy, as though it were a cornucopia; it was lovely, this settling down again, this tidying away of the summer into its box, this taking up of the thread of one's life where the holidays (irrelevant interlude) had made one drop it.
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A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.
... a letter from Vince at school - would she please send on his umbrella, his camera, and his fountain-pen, which leaked rather?
An engagement book is the most important of all those small adjuncts to life, that tribe of humble familiars which jog along beside one from year's end to year's end, apparently trivial, but momentous by reason of their terrible intimacy. A sponge, a comb, a tooth-brush, a spectacle-case, a fountain-pen - these are the things which need to be chosen with care. They become, in time, so much a part of one that they can scarcely be classed as inanimate. Insensitive, certainly - but so are one's nails and hair.
Mrs. Miniver resigned herself to the exquisite discomfort of the electric drill. It was a pity, she felt, that this instrument had been invented during a period when scientific images in poetry were out of favour. To the moderns, who had been brought up with it, it was presumably vieux jeu. They took it for granted ... But oh, what Donne could have made of it, if it had been invented in his time! With what delight he would have seized upon it, with what harsh jostling and grinding of consonants he would have worked out metaphor after metaphor, comparing its action to that of all the worst tormentors of the heart: to jealousy, to remorse, to the sharp gnawing of a bad conscience and the squalid nagging of debt.
She would write in longhand, leaning back with her feet up on a sofa, using fine-quality lined paper with a gold-embossed pen, In a lecture entitled "Pens, Ink and Paper", she said: "Genius can write on the backs of old envelopes, but mere talent requires the very best stationery that money can buy.".
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As a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie. Mrs. Miniver's adventures have charmed millions. This edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the book's orginal publication in the U.S., features a new introduction by Greer Garson, who won the Academy Award as best actress for her role as Mrs. Miniver.
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