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The fast-paced story is brimful with memorable characters -- an eccentric cryptographer, a rugged hero struggling with his demons, and a pair of star-crossed lovers whose tragic fate may already be sealed.
The Modern Soul is more about characters than action. The story begins with the stereotype of the pompous German music professor explaining to the young English narrator why he incessantly eats cherries: “There is nothing like cherries for producing free saliva after trombone playing, especially after Grieg’s ‘Ich Liebe Dich’” He’s cherry eating is connected with a consuming desire for women. The two older Germans, the Professor and the German actress’ mother, talk incessantly of food and soul. They agree that the English are “fish blooded,” cold and without soul. The modern soul is posture and hypocrisy; the varieties of sexual attraction are puzzles and complexities that human beings cannot handle. CharacterisationVoir livre
David Blaize is a charming coming-of-age novel by E.F. Benson that tells the story of David, a young man navigating the challenges of growing up, self-discovery, and societal expectations. Set in a richly described English setting, the novel presents David's experiences with school, friendship, and his search for a personal identity. Benson's wit and insightful commentary on the pressures of growing up and fitting in with societal norms make this a humorous yet deeply reflective novel about youth, ambition, and personal growth.Voir livre
John Marcher has told one person his secret: that he is reserved for some rare and terrible fate, and can do nothing but wait for it. May Bartram agrees to wait with him, and the years pass in drawing rooms. James wrote the most frightening story in his work without a single event in it — the beast is in the jungle the whole time, and the reader sees it long before Marcher does. Fifty-five plates spanning 1821 to 1927, with Whistler's Grey and Silver: The Thames and Vert et Or: Le Raconteur among them, catch the waiting and the water that run through these stories.Voir livre
The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Morley Roberts.Voir livre
Two Americans inherit a Swiss chalet with a housekeeper, a cow and a pair of Bolshevik agents in the neighbourhood, in wartime Switzerland. Chambers wrote it in 1918 as a farce and let the politics stay just visible behind the comedy. The joke is that everyone in the house is pretending to be someone else and only the cook is telling the truth. Fifty-eight plates of Swiss lakes, Alps and market squares, from Hodler to Loutherbourg, keep the country itself in view while the household keeps up its pretenses.Voir livre
A Welsh regiment sails for the Crimea, and the officer telling the story has left a marriage question unsettled at home. Grant wrote some ninety books and had soldiered himself; the value here is the eye for detail — the transport ships, the winter camp, the pointless orders — from a man who knew how armies actually work. Fifty-nine plates, from Vereshchagin to Corinth, carry the war's weather and terrain across the century between 1814 and 1927.Voir livre
