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1varielle
Feeling depressed? Try some depression era literature.
1. Cimarron, Edna Ferber 37 copies
2. Exile, Warwick Deeping 1 copy
3. The Woman of Andros, Thornton Wilder 12 copies
4. Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes 10 copies
5. Angel Pavement, J. B. Priestley 54 copies
6. The Door, Mary Roberts Rinehart 39 copies
7. Rogue Herries, Hugh Walpole 21 copies
8. Chances, A. Hamilton Gibbs 1 copy
9. Young Man of Manhattan, Katharine Brush 0 copies
10. Twenty-Four Hours, Louis Bromfield 1 copy
Touchstones going all over and won't behave.
1. Cimarron, Edna Ferber 37 copies
2. Exile, Warwick Deeping 1 copy
3. The Woman of Andros, Thornton Wilder 12 copies
4. Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes 10 copies
5. Angel Pavement, J. B. Priestley 54 copies
6. The Door, Mary Roberts Rinehart 39 copies
7. Rogue Herries, Hugh Walpole 21 copies
8. Chances, A. Hamilton Gibbs 1 copy
9. Young Man of Manhattan, Katharine Brush 0 copies
10. Twenty-Four Hours, Louis Bromfield 1 copy
Touchstones going all over and won't behave.
2aviddiva
Wow, I've never even HEARD of any of these books! (Though I do recognize some of the authors.) Strike out for me in 1930.
3MarianV
Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote really good mysteries. She was sometimes called "the US Agatha Christie" I read The spiral staircase
4vpfluke
I've never heard of Warwick Deeping, so I took a look at the author page and the only thing people read by him nowadays is Sorrell and Son, which was made into a movie (the novel is about a father who spends all his time making his son a success).
5marise
Cimarron was filmed twice: first in 1931 with Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and then in 1960 with Glenn Ford. My husband has a tape of the 1931 movie, which he loves. I am not quite so crazy about it. The story is interesting in that the husband is always taking off and having his adventures and the wife runs the business and fends off the bad guys. The husband's character is sort of a precursor to Jett Rink in Ferber's Giant.
I have a copy of Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley, but haven't read it yet.
I have read others by Wilder and Bromfield and enjoyed them.
I have a copy of Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley, but haven't read it yet.
I have read others by Wilder and Bromfield and enjoyed them.
6varielle
US Non-Fiction
1. The Story of San Michele, Axel Munthe 171 copies on LT
2. The Strange Death of President Harding, Gaston B. Means and May Dixon Thacker 9 copies
3. Byron, André Maurois 18 copies
4. The Adams Family, James Truslow Adams 24 copies
5. Lone Cowboy, Will James 15 copies
6. Lincoln, Emil Ludwig 10 copies
7. The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant 1,000 copies
8. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells 450 copies
9. The Art of Thinking, Ernest Dimnet 53 copies
10. The Rise of American Civilization, Charles and Mary Beard 22 copies
I picked up Wells' The Outline of History at a friends of the library sale not long ago.
1. The Story of San Michele, Axel Munthe 171 copies on LT
2. The Strange Death of President Harding, Gaston B. Means and May Dixon Thacker 9 copies
3. Byron, André Maurois 18 copies
4. The Adams Family, James Truslow Adams 24 copies
5. Lone Cowboy, Will James 15 copies
6. Lincoln, Emil Ludwig 10 copies
7. The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant 1,000 copies
8. The Outline of History, H. G. Wells 450 copies
9. The Art of Thinking, Ernest Dimnet 53 copies
10. The Rise of American Civilization, Charles and Mary Beard 22 copies
I picked up Wells' The Outline of History at a friends of the library sale not long ago.
7vpfluke
I had The Outline of History in my library for many years, obviously not now. I had a 2 volume version.
8geneg
I had the two volume edition as well. This was my first history book, and I believe it is what started my enjoyment of history. I wonder how the attitudes, etc. toward the non-western world have changed over time, if at all.
9vpfluke
Eventually, I came to prefer Arnold Toynbee's A Study in history to H.G. Wells
10Storeetllr
The Story of San Michele! One of my personal all-time favorites! It inspired the beginnings of a love of Italy that has never faded. I read it in 1965 when the head of the English Dept. at a local college gave it to me (I worked there after school when I was in high school) and told me it was his favorite. I don't believe it was completely nonfictional, though. I believe elements of it were fictionalized. I'll have to look for it now to reread it.
13MAJic
#10 Storeetllr
Since you love Italy and books, can you tell me what you think of Don Camillo? Gaureshi?
I've wondered so many times if the portrayal was true to life?
Since you love Italy and books, can you tell me what you think of Don Camillo? Gaureshi?
I've wondered so many times if the portrayal was true to life?
14vpfluke
#12
The reason I don't have the H G Wells now is the passing of 45+ years. It was definitely in my library as a teenager, but I simply don't remember what happened to the set.
The reason I don't have the H G Wells now is the passing of 45+ years. It was definitely in my library as a teenager, but I simply don't remember what happened to the set.
15rocketjk
I read Angel Pavement many years back and enjoyed it a lot. The title, if I remember right, is a reference to either a street or a neighborhood in London, working class in any event, and the book is sort of a slice of life description of the place.
16edwinbcn
Rogue Herries
Finished reading: 2 May 2012
Rogue Herries, the first volume of a four-volume chronicle, describing a family saga from the early 18th till the early 20th century, is a novel painted on a large canvas. The main character of volume one is Francis Herris, nicknamed "Rogue Herries" because of his capricious and cruel nature. He is not as dark as Heathcliff, but at least as wild. The book starts with Herries and his family moving to the rugged landscape of the Lake District, where they move into a house in Borrowdale. The household consist of Francis Herries, his first wife Margaret, his two children, David and Deborah, and his house-keeper and mistress Alice Press, and valet Benjamin. Bringing The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy to mind, Herries sells Alice at a fair, after she has insulted his wife Margaret. But despite his rugged nature, Francis has a kind heart. This, however, rarely shows, and because of his wild behaviour Herries is misunderstood and feared by the villagers. For example, one day he witnesses a witch trial. He retrieves the body of the old village woman and buries her on his estate, which convinces the villagers that Herries has a pact with the devil, or is a devil himself. However, on another day he gives his cape to a beggar woman, and an amulet to her child on the road. This chance meeting and act of kindness determines the whole further development of the story and shapes Herries destiny.
Years later, he sees the mother and her daughter again at a Christmas party in a barn. The daughter has grown up, and Herries is struck by her flaming red hair. However, they disappear in the wink of an eye. The next time he sees her, another few years later, is during the Jacobite rising of 1745. In a tavern, Herries observes her in the company of her lover. Incidentally, Herries finds himself in the battle side-by-side with Mirabell's lover and witnesses his death.
Francis Herries has by now realized that he is in love with this young girl, who is at least 30 years younger than he is. After the skirmishes are over, he roams the countryside to look for Mirabell, and eventually finds her in a very decrepit state living in a cave. He proposes to her, but she rejects him. He then pledges to wait for her until she comes to him.
Many years later, she turns up on his door step, and they marry. However, Mirabell cannot bring herself to say she loves Herries, and this leads to a growing tension, with a climax of Mirabell fleeing from Herries. For years, he keeps looking for her, all over the country, until one day he finds her again, by chance. She is an actress in a traveling troupe. She breaks her promise to meet him after the performance. Yet years later, Mirabell returns to him, and by now, out of her own volition, says she has come to love Herries, just as Francis had always hoped it would be. He had to wait all his life for it.
Along the main story, David Herries grows up, meets his wife Sarah, whom he abducts from the home of her uncle, and marries. He sets op in a modern estate not far from Herries. Deborah, falling short of becoming an old spinster, eventually marries a parson.
The weakest point of the novel seemed the opening chapter, but soon after that it developed into a very gripping, fascinating story. There are beautiful, detailed descriptions of the natural scene in the Lake District, the old life-style of village life in Olde England, and exquisite descriptions of detail, light etc.
Along the main story, a large number of side characters are introduced, family members of Herries who play a role in this and following volumes. Some other characters have familiar sounding names for people with some knowledge of British history, e.g. Peel, but only vague suggestions are made to the role of these characters in, supposedly, subsequent volumes.
Hugh Walpole is a now largely forgotten English novelist, born in Auckland, New Zealand, who was a best-selling author during the first three decades of the twentieth century. The Herries chronicle in four volumes was reissued by the London publisher Frances Lincoln in 2008.
His work certainly deserves wider readership.
Finished reading: 2 May 2012
Rogue Herries, the first volume of a four-volume chronicle, describing a family saga from the early 18th till the early 20th century, is a novel painted on a large canvas. The main character of volume one is Francis Herris, nicknamed "Rogue Herries" because of his capricious and cruel nature. He is not as dark as Heathcliff, but at least as wild. The book starts with Herries and his family moving to the rugged landscape of the Lake District, where they move into a house in Borrowdale. The household consist of Francis Herries, his first wife Margaret, his two children, David and Deborah, and his house-keeper and mistress Alice Press, and valet Benjamin. Bringing The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy to mind, Herries sells Alice at a fair, after she has insulted his wife Margaret. But despite his rugged nature, Francis has a kind heart. This, however, rarely shows, and because of his wild behaviour Herries is misunderstood and feared by the villagers. For example, one day he witnesses a witch trial. He retrieves the body of the old village woman and buries her on his estate, which convinces the villagers that Herries has a pact with the devil, or is a devil himself. However, on another day he gives his cape to a beggar woman, and an amulet to her child on the road. This chance meeting and act of kindness determines the whole further development of the story and shapes Herries destiny.
Years later, he sees the mother and her daughter again at a Christmas party in a barn. The daughter has grown up, and Herries is struck by her flaming red hair. However, they disappear in the wink of an eye. The next time he sees her, another few years later, is during the Jacobite rising of 1745. In a tavern, Herries observes her in the company of her lover. Incidentally, Herries finds himself in the battle side-by-side with Mirabell's lover and witnesses his death.
Francis Herries has by now realized that he is in love with this young girl, who is at least 30 years younger than he is. After the skirmishes are over, he roams the countryside to look for Mirabell, and eventually finds her in a very decrepit state living in a cave. He proposes to her, but she rejects him. He then pledges to wait for her until she comes to him.
Many years later, she turns up on his door step, and they marry. However, Mirabell cannot bring herself to say she loves Herries, and this leads to a growing tension, with a climax of Mirabell fleeing from Herries. For years, he keeps looking for her, all over the country, until one day he finds her again, by chance. She is an actress in a traveling troupe. She breaks her promise to meet him after the performance. Yet years later, Mirabell returns to him, and by now, out of her own volition, says she has come to love Herries, just as Francis had always hoped it would be. He had to wait all his life for it.
Along the main story, David Herries grows up, meets his wife Sarah, whom he abducts from the home of her uncle, and marries. He sets op in a modern estate not far from Herries. Deborah, falling short of becoming an old spinster, eventually marries a parson.
The weakest point of the novel seemed the opening chapter, but soon after that it developed into a very gripping, fascinating story. There are beautiful, detailed descriptions of the natural scene in the Lake District, the old life-style of village life in Olde England, and exquisite descriptions of detail, light etc.
Along the main story, a large number of side characters are introduced, family members of Herries who play a role in this and following volumes. Some other characters have familiar sounding names for people with some knowledge of British history, e.g. Peel, but only vague suggestions are made to the role of these characters in, supposedly, subsequent volumes.
Hugh Walpole is a now largely forgotten English novelist, born in Auckland, New Zealand, who was a best-selling author during the first three decades of the twentieth century. The Herries chronicle in four volumes was reissued by the London publisher Frances Lincoln in 2008.
His work certainly deserves wider readership.
