Crampton Hodnet
This is a wonderfully accomplished farce beginning with the joke of using her own name in the title (Barbara Mary Crampton Pym). From that point she sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing- in recognizingly "Pym" fashion- on the unsuitable romantic entanglements of a curate and a pretty...
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This is a wonderfully accomplished farce beginning with the joke of using her own name in the title (Barbara Mary Crampton Pym). From that point she sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing- in recognizingly "Pym" fashion- on the unsuitable romantic entanglements of a curate and a pretty young girl, both of whom live in the same rooming house, and a starry-eyed university professor and his female student.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781559212434 (1559212438)
Publish date: January 1st 2005
Publisher: Moyer Bell
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
The story was promising but not exactly what I was hoping for. The book title comes from a situation where the curate of the village North Oxford must explain to the vicar's wife why he missed evensong. While he had in fact been wandering the countryside with his friend Miss Morrow, he decided to te...
The moral of the story could be that we're never as important as we imagine we are. Pym could be read very sadly. It's possible to interpret her work as cruelly exposing the triviality of life but Miss Morrow's quiet but irrepressible joy in life is too full hearted. It's such a funny book and Pym c...
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