Precious Bane
'She has a style of exquisite beauty which yet has both force and restraint, simplicity and subtlety she has fancy and wit, delicious humour and pathos. She sees and knows men aright as no other novelist does. She has, In short, genius' Mr. Edwin Pugh
'She has a style of exquisite beauty which yet has both force and restraint, simplicity and subtlety she has fancy and wit, delicious humour and pathos. She sees and knows men aright as no other novelist does. She has, In short, genius' Mr. Edwin Pugh
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780268015381 (0268015384)
ASIN: 9780268015381
Publish date: 28-08-1990
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Fiction,
Historical
What an enjoyable read! I had my usual laugh over reviewers who class this book as stilted or dated. Such people seem to want authors to write as though they live decades beyond their real life spans. Cold Comfort Farm was written as a parody of just such novels. But I truly enjoyed it, in all its g...
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