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Lädt ... The Making of a Marchioness (1901)von Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I have read Burnett's Secret Garden before and thought this book was going to be sweet fluff. However, I was pleasantly surprised as the book progressed. It's definitely a story of good vs. evil and the power of positivity. Loved this book! A veiled criticism of Victorian society. I listened to this on audio and the narrator was superb. 8 hours 10 mins (252 pages). It's only 99 cents on Kindle currently! Definitely not a favorite, too saccharine and just not up to my expectations. Just found out, though that ITV (which was behind the most recent adaptations of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey) has commissioned a TV movie of it. Sounds like they're going to change the plot somewhat. Wonder if it'll be more likeable than the book. Now, what I'd really love to see is an adaptation of Burnett's totally wonderful book The Shuttle. The Stein and Day reprint of The Making of a Marchioness was my introduction to that title. I had bought a vintage edition of the sequel, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst almost four years earlier, but waited to get a copy of the first book. (Why did I have to wait so long? This was back before the Internet, when we who weren't rich enough to commission others to find us out-of-print books had to depend upon finding them in used bookstores we visited in person.) When I finished this reprint, I eagerly picked up the sequel and started reading. That's when I discovered that the reprint's 'part two' was the sequel. This edition does not reprint the four illustrations each or the fancy page decorations that appeared in the original Frederick A. Stokes Company editions. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: F. A. Stokes Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or an index. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I did find it dryly amusing that one female character was desperate to get married because if she didn't, a dire fate awaited her: having to go live in Ireland. Gasp!
(I read an edition containing only the first book, The Making of a Marchioness, and not its sequel, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst. Judging by other reviews, that was probably a good choice; the sequel takes a turn into racist melodrama.) ( )