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Ladataan... Christmas Pudding (1932)Tekijä: Nancy Mitford
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Found this pretty lame and repetitive, actually. Big comedown after Highland Fling. Despite its name, this is not in any real sense a Christmas novel. So was I disappointed at this choice this time of year? No, as this was a very funny and sharply observed satire of upper class mores in the early 1930s (published in 1933). The titular "pudding" is the combination of eccentric characters and traditions Lady Bobbin hosts at her Christmas house party in Gloucester (though this party only lasts really for one or two of the 21 chapters). Foremost among these guests is Paul Fotheringhay, a frustrated author who wants to write a biography of Lady Bobbin's literary ancestor Maria Bobbin and who is present in the guise of a tutor to her son Bobby. This was laugh out loud funny and I would definitely read more of Nancy Mitford's novels. Light hearted romp, in the Bertie Wooster mould, involving the upper classes in 1930’s England. County women who live for the hunt, sophisticated schoolboys & a bored young woman playing at falling in love with a penniless charmer, then choosing marriage to a boring rich man with a title. I expect many of Mitford’s contemporaries chuckled in recognition at the various pragmatic types represented here. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
The formidable fox-hunting obsessed Lady Bobbin has put together a Christmas house party at Compton Bobbin, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia, the girl's pompous suitor, a couple of children obsessed with newspaper death notices, and an aspiring writer whose deadly (in more ways than one) serious first novel has been acclaimed as the funniest book of the year, to his utter dismay. And then there is beautiful ex courtesan Amabelle Fortescue and her group of guests staying in a nearby cottage ... As the house parties starts to unravel, so the jokes increase- this is Nancy Mitford's second novel and one of her earliest forays into the world of the Bright Young Things. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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