Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography
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Laurence Oliphant
(0,5 Sterne; 1 Bewertungen)
Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spiritualist prophet Thomas Lake Harris, writes here under the amusing guise of Lord Frank Vanecourt, bringing us a veritable pot-pourri of events from everyday life in 1865 as he moves amongst the great, the good, and not so good who reside in the exclusive area of London's Piccadilly W1 and its surroundings. (Introduction by Nigel Carrington) (7 hr 54 min)
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A Boring Slog of a Book
Not My Cup of Tea
(0,5 Sterne)
Maybe the book has lost much in "translation" - 1865 upper crust British to 21st century American, but I found this book to be a rambling incomprehensible mess and as such unable to finish it. The description implied that the book is an amusing view of the great, good, and the not so great. But aside from the characters' names it was hard to tell who was who. So unless you you roar with laughter over the stereotyping of American millionaires or subcontinental Indians or tirades against missionaries buying horses, I would suggest skipping this book and trying Charles Dickens or any of a dozen other mid nineteenth authors.