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Lädt ... The Dark Tide (1923)von Vera Brittain
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This took quite some time to get into and I kept getting various characters confused but, once I found my way into it, I really found it quite moving. Daphne becomes a far more interesting character than I expected and her final friendship with Virginia is startling and makes sense together. It gets a bit overblown in the final grand paragraphs but a very worthwhile read. The Dark Tide is an autobiographical novel set during Vera Brittain’s years at Oxford after WWI. The story opens when Daphne Lethbridge returns to finish her education at Oxford after working as a driver in the War. She takes up modern history and does her coaching with Virginia Dennison, a frustrating know-it-all who Daphne takes an immediate disliking to (partly, I think, because of jealousy). Although there are similarities between Vera and Winifred Holtby’s friendship and that of Daphne Lethbridge and Virginia Dennison, there are many differences (neither Vera or Winifred had a Raymond Sylvester in their lives, thankfully), and I think Vera infused a bit of her personality into both Daphne and Virginia. However, both women are very, very different; Daphne is shy and awkward (but belongs to one of the top cliques in Drayton College), Virginia is a know-it-all and showoff. Neither of them is really likeable, but somehow they end up being friends. For it is the rejection of Raymond Sylvester’s marriage proposal to Virginia that leads to Daphne’s disastrous marriage to him. It’s similar to the butterfly effect—where one action leads to another, which leads to another, and so on. As a result, Virginia ends up feeling guilty for what happens to Daphne. I enjoyed seeing how these two disparate people would end up being sympathetic towards each other. There are a couple of clichéd characters (Raymond Lester, the selfish, philandering husband comes to mind) and I thought it was hard to believe how Daphne, who’d lived through the War, could at the same time be so naive. But in all, I liked this novel—although I think Brittain‘s Testament of Youth is, of course, a far better book. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Bright and vivacious, Daphne Lethbridge is back at Oxford after a stint of volunteer work. World War I has ravaged Europe, but it has done nothing to daunt her spirit, and she plunges headlong into the whirl of college life. Her enjoyment, though, is soured by her cynical contemporary Virginia Dennison, who spars with Daphne on every occasion. Daphne seems to triumph over Virginia when she marries a rising political star, but it's not long before she begins to realize the bitter truth of her marriage. It takes a chance encounter with her old enemy for her disillusionment to give way to a mature understanding of love and friendship. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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