Klicka på en bild för att gå till Google Book Search.
Laddar... Hereward the Wake (1866)av Charles Kingsley
CCE 1000 Good Books List (793) Laddar...
Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I wanted a rip-roaring boy's adventure tale or, at least, a soppy pseudo-Medieval Victorian romance but I got this instead. It was a retelling of the various tales of Hereward in a partly scholarly and partly in the style of Medieval chronicles and it was so boring I almost fell asleep several times. It utterly fail to engage my attention from the earliest pages and I got lost in the haze of names and places and finally found no reason that Hereward was the hero and "Last of the English". I know this is on many lists of books that I have liked but I should have remembered that I didn't make it more than a few pages into The Water Babies without putting it aside. If your idea of a good 19th C novel is one that preaches stoic acceptance of life's limitations, avoid Charles Kingsley and stick to George Eliot. But if you are up for Social Darwinism, Muscular Christianity, and Rule Britannia, you will find Hereward the Wake an enjoyable read. Kingsley is careful to refer regularly to the contemporary sources of his mediaeval tale but Hereward is the prototype of a Victorian Empire builder: fearless, pragmatic, C of E. Complicated sexual politics. "What I have had will still be mine, when that which I have shall fail me." (252) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Ingår i förlagsserienEveryman's Library (296) Uppmärksammade listor
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
Pågående diskussionerIngen/ingaPopulära omslag
Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
Är det här du? |