G. B. Stern (1890–1973)
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Verk av G. B. Stern
No son of mine 8 exemplar
All in good time 6 exemplar
Modesta 5 exemplar
Thunderstorm 4 exemplar
Bouquet 4 exemplar
The woman in the hall 4 exemplar
The rueful mating 3 exemplar
Seventy Times Seven 3 exemplar
Long lost father 2 exemplar
The back seat 2 exemplar
The room 2 exemplar
The china shop, (Borzoi pocket books) 2 exemplar
The way it worked out 2 exemplar
The slower Judas 1 exemplar
Smoke rings 1 exemplar
The Rakonitz chronicles 1 exemplar
He Wrote Treasure Island 1 exemplar
Pantomime 1 exemplar
R. L. S. AN OMNIBUS. 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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- Verk
- 58
- Även av
- 10
- Medlemmar
- 587
- Popularitet
- #42,723
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 22
- ISBN
- 19
- Favoritmärkt
- 2
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.… (mer)