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Another collection of stories that I've read - but ages ago and October is a good time for a reread. Another great purchase from a used bookstore. Most of these stories are often used in other anthologies, but there are only a few I'll skip or skim. (Like The Monkey's Paw - I really think I've read ...
[These notes were made in 1985:]. By the end of this book, I was in a pleasant state of emotional exhaustion. This is Brosterism in its essence: tho' not homosexual, homoerotic, and firmly grounded - as the title suggests - in the idealism of Honour. Aymar's family motto is "sans tache." It is, t...
[These notes were made in 1985; I read the book in the 1928 Heinemann edition:]. It is a temptation (and one which requires resistance) to ascribe all the beauties of a joint-authored novel to the author one knows and admires, and all the faults to the other. Yet, from subject-matter alone, I think...
[These notes were made in 1984:]. A good one. French Revolution; an estranged couple, both heroic and aristocratic. Their reunion, set among timeless ruins (of course) is surreal in its intensity. I was annoyed as all hell that the Marquis de Kersaint (our hero) had to be killed off in the end, b...
[These notes were made in 1983:]. The setting for this one is a late eighteenth-century abortive French invasion near Liverpool. Once again, Broster's main concern is not historical accuracy (tho' she has plenty of that) but the workings-out of sentiment. Martin Tyrrell is an Englishman who gets m...
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