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According to Queeney

Door Beryl Bainbridge

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#384399-UE12
Titel
According to Queeney
Auteur
Bainbridge, Beryl
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Little Brown Book
Jaar van uitgave
2001
ISBN10
0316859036
ISBN13
9780316859035
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Beryl Bainbridge's latest novel is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain's greatest Man of Letters. The time is the 1770s and 1780s and Johnson, having completed his life's major work (he compiled the first ever Dictionary of the English Language) is running an increasingly chaotic life. Torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for Mrs Thrale, the wife of an old friend, ACCORDING TO QUEENEY reveals one of Britain's most wonderful characters in all his wit and glory. Above all, though, this is a story of love and friendship and brilliantly narrated by Queeney, Mrs Thrale's daughter, looking back over her life. A few of Johnson quotes: *Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures *No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for mon... (Lees verder)ey *When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life
Pagina's
242
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 6,00

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