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G. B. Stern (1890–1973)

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Verk av G. B. Stern

The Matriarch (1924) 126 exemplar
The Ugly Dachshund (1938) 73 exemplar
Speaking of Jane Austen (1943) 65 exemplar
A Deputy Was King (1926) 44 exemplar
More about Jane Austen (1949) 43 exemplar
Ten Days of Christmas (1950) 35 exemplar
Monogram (1936) 14 exemplar
Mosaic (1930) 11 exemplar
The Dark Gentleman (1927) 9 exemplar
Benefits Forgot (1949) 8 exemplar
No son of mine 8 exemplar
The Young Matriarch (1942) 7 exemplar
For all we know (1955) 6 exemplar
All in good time 6 exemplar
Another part of the forest (1941) 6 exemplar
A Lion in the Garden (1940) 5 exemplar
Robert Louis Stevenson (1952) 5 exemplar
Modesta 5 exemplar
Shining and Free (1935) 5 exemplar
Oleander River (1937) 4 exemplar
Trumpet voluntary (1944) 4 exemplar
A name to conjure with (1953) 4 exemplar
Thunderstorm 4 exemplar
Bouquet 4 exemplar
Dolphin Cottage (2016) 4 exemplar
The Donkey Shoe (1952) 3 exemplar
The rueful mating 3 exemplar
Dogs in an omnibus (1942) 3 exemplar
The reasonable shores (1946) 3 exemplar
A Duck to Water (2004) 3 exemplar
Long lost father 2 exemplar
Unless I marry (1959) 2 exemplar
The shortest night (1931) 2 exemplar
Bernadette (1960) 2 exemplar
The back seat 2 exemplar
Johnny Forsaken (1954) 2 exemplar
The room 2 exemplar
Credit Title (1961) 1 exemplar
The slower Judas 1 exemplar
Smoke rings 1 exemplar
Pantomime 1 exemplar
One is only human 1 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Stern, Gladys Bronwyn
Födelsedag
1890-06-17
Avled
1973-09-20
Kön
female
Nationalitet
UK
Födelseort
North Kensington, London, England, UK
Dödsort
Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Bostadsorter
London, England, UK
Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Yrken
novelist
playwright
biographer
literary critic
autobiographer
Relationer
Holdsworth, Geoffrey Lisle (husband)
Kaye-Smith, Sheila (co-author)
Forest, Antonia (friend)
Kort biografi
G.B. (Gladys Bertha, later Gladys Bronwyn) Stern was born in London, England to a cosmopolitan, assimilated Jewish family. She wrote her first novel at age 20 and continued to produce one novel every year until 1964. She also wrote plays, including The Man Who Pays the Piper (1931), which was revived by the Orange Tree Theatre in London in 2013.

With Sheila Kaye-Smith, she wrote two books about Jane Austen, Talking of Jane Austen (1943) and More Talk of Jane Austen (1949). She also published short stories, literary criticism, biographies of Robert Louis Stevenson, and 10 volumes of memoirs and autobiography. Her 1938 novel The Ugly Dachshund was made into a film in 1966.

In 1919, she married Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth, and sometimes collaborated on works with him.

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I think G.B. Stern is very readable! That's good praise from me, it means that one can read a sizeable chunk of a book without easily putting it down, or checking to see how many pages left in a chapter. The story just flows, and there's plenty of dialogue.
Modesta is the serving-maid of an English couple living in Italy. She's not good for much, as she's rather lazy and a bit sly. But Laurie, a visiting English gentleman, is fired up by his chivalrous notion that Modesta is a misunderstood, virtuous, delicate flower of womanhood, and he spontaneously decides to marry her, take her to England, and give her all her heart's desires.

Nothing bad can come from this idea, right?

The book really is quite funny in places, and the story flows by very quickly. Even if Modesta is a brat, she's well written and in some ways you sympathize with her.
I think more time could have been spent on the rehabilitation of Modesta; it got rather glossed over.
The only difficulty was, the gender/racial stereotypes were a bit heavy at times, and even though I like the way Laurie ends up dealing with his little vixen of a wife, some of the narrator's explanations jarred on me a little. Also the notion that your ancestors give you some kind of magic tendency in your blood to either live on the land or be a gentleman. But, the book is a product of its time, and the storyline works, so it's fine.
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Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |
July 2022 re-read: Much as I seem to have enjoyed this the first time through, on this re-read, I just couldn't get into it or enjoy the characters, although there were some moments of wit. Perhaps one has to be in the right mood!
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Original review:
GB Stern's writing flows very skillfully; she creates scenes and characters that ring very true and very interesting.
In this case, her story revolves around a group of family and extended family who gather for the first time after the end of the second World War. The children especially are convinced that they are going to have a Glorious Time, because after all, peace has set in, and they are all such good friends. Why wouldn't it be perfect?
For a couple of days, all goes well. The children decide to produce a play, to be held the week after Christmas, when their beloved Uncle Ted is finally to visit.
But what seems idyllic turns more and more tense. It starts with a duplicated gift, a less-than-helpful reaction, and hurt feelings that start in one of the children, and ripple through the others, even to the adults. Thoughts that were never meant to be spoken aloud come barreling out.
One ponders on the fact that peaceful day-to-day interactions often require a great deal of self-control, and when once broken down, it becomes difficult to marshal things back into order. But not impossible. The arrival of Uncle Ted provides some fresh air, as he kindly takes in hand the children and their play.
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Alishadt | 3 andra recensioner | Feb 25, 2023 |
Reading this is like being in a book club all by myself, with two invisible members from the 1940s.

Sheila Kaye-Smith and G.B. Stern write whimsical and interesting essays on various aspects of Jane Austen's novels.
In this second volume, they tackle family life, letter-writing, questions of health, characters with no speaking parts, and other subjects.
They even dally with writing brief scenes for some of the novels seven years after "the end." It's all very charming and enjoyable, and much more satisfying than the current rage for fan-fiction and the Hollywoodization of Jane Austen.

Fun stuff!
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Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |
Whoever wrote “comedy of manners” (not to mention “warm” and “witty”) in the description for this book didn’t read past the first chapter. It’s tragic, dark, pointless, and unredeemed. It’s about a psychopathic social climber who becomes indirectly responsible for the death of a decent woman whom she hates. There’s no story arc, and there’s definitely nothing funny here.
 
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Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |

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Verk
58
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Medlemmar
587
Popularitet
#42,723
Betyg
4.0
Recensioner
22
ISBN
19
Favoritmärkt
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