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Bezig met laden... The Little Ottleys (1962)door Ada Leverson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Started to read Love's Shadow but couldn't get interested Oscar Wilde was a very great friend of Ada Leverson, went to all her parties and promoted her as the wittiest woman in London and the best writer in England. Presumably he did this out of friendship, because its hard to see what there is in the Little Ottleys that would lead anyone to think there was any real merit in this book. Like Wilde and, later, Noel Coward, Leverson was all about slyly-observed little comedies of the peccadillos of the upper middle classes. With a good writer this sort of subject can be very witty - the Importance of Being Earnest for example - but in the hands of a hack, like Leverson, its just plain silly and uninteresting. There is no depth to the characters so that the reader really doesn't care who is having an affair with whom if you don't care, then the book is a total time waster. I can imagine this might have been successful as a women's magazine story serialized over half a dozen issues. Or perhaps, spiced up and with a sexified cover (can you have rock-star long hair and rippling muscles on a suit that works in the city a la Harlequin romances?) It wasn't an awful book, a bit depressing maybe, but mainly it was too insubstantial and for me at least, its only plus point was the beautifully-designed cover. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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This volume contains all three novels of the Little Otteys trilogy by Ada Esther Leverson, the British writer known for her close friendship with Oscar Wilde who called her Sphinx. She was a wit, and a friend of Max Beerbohm; her writing has been compared to Beerbohm's, and the stories of Saki. Her trilogy of novels is both funny and brutal, a comedy of manners in which even the public face of the people portrayed has cracks which show through their witty conversation.The novels are:LOVE'S SHADOWTENTERHOOKSLOVE AT SECOND SIGHT Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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