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Laddar... My Friend the Chauffeur (1905)av C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson
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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. Though the action is uneven, the descriptions of place just glow. The characters are alive and the phrasing is sometimes superb. I googled their route and some of their stops. What a tour! Glad I went along. ( ) Gets kind of exciting towards the end, but there's a lot of skimmable portions before that. Ralph decides that his best friend Terry should put his car to good use and make some money by hiring it out to ladies who would like a sightseeing trip. Terry thinks this is a ridiculous idea, but then he sees the potential passengers and is rather taken with one of them. So he goes along as driver to three women and his friend Ralph through France and Italy. Throw in a dastardly foreign prince and lots of raptures over the countryside through which they drive, and you've got another addition to the Williamsons' oeuvre. Not as enjoyable as some of their others. Four people share in the narrative, and the little romance takes place mostly under the radar. I've been working my way through the Williamson's books as some fun light reading. There are a lot of similarities throughout all their books but the basically fall into two categories: travelogue or melodramatic adventure. My Friend the Chauffeur leans towards travelogue but ends with plenty of melodramatic suspense and action. The premise: a poor titled English man becomes the hired chauffeur and tour guide for his own car and travels around Europe with several American ladies and a couple other characters. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"WANTED, LADIES, TO CONDUCT. An amateur automobilist (English, titled) who drives his own motor-car accommodating five persons, offers to conduct two or three ladies, Americans preferred, to any picturesque centres in Europe which they may desire to visit. Car has capacity for carrying small luggage, and is of best type. Journeys of about 100 miles a day. Novel and delightful way of travelling; owner of car well up in history, art, and architecture of different countries. Inclusive terms five guineas a day each, or slight reduction made for extensive trip. Address-" When Terry had read aloud thus far, I hastily interrupted him. I wasn't quite ready yet for him to see that address. The thing needed a little leading up to; and by way of getting him quickly and safely on to a side rack I burst into a shout of laughter, so loud and so sudden that he looked up from the little pink Riviera newspaper of which I was the proud proprietor, to stare at me."What's the matter?" he asked.I subsided. "The idea struck me so forcibly," said I. "Jolly clever, isn't it?""It's a fake, of course," said Terry. "No fellow would be ass enough to advertise himself like that in earnest. Probably the thing's been put in for a bet, or else it's a practical joke." Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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