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Chargement... Whosoever Shall Offendpar F. Marion CrawfordAucun Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is not a significant novel, as they say, but it is fun. The quality of the writing, as mere prose, is not "mere." It is superb. A trifle trifling? Perhaps. A fun adventure? Definiately. Not to everyone's taste? Of course. To mine? I confess a "yes." ( ) After the turn of the century, Crawford's novels became more narrowly romantic, more based on incident and intrigue than on the development of character. At the same time, his prose style became more mellifluous and urbane; the beginnings of his late novels are pure joy, evident of a sure hand capable of full control over his craft. This book is a trifle, I know; it is a popular novel in conception, with much less seriousness than early works like "To Leeward," "A Tale of a Lonely Parish," and "Saracinesca." But the writing is so well done, and the tale itself so ably told, that I'm willing to overlook its lack of greatness and merely assert its abundance of goodness. It is very good, one of my favorite of his books written after 1900. I recommend it to all readers who are not snobs. (Snobs should probably avoid the author altogether; he was a self-proclaimed romantic, and had little patience with the rising tide of realism, and would have given no quarter to the wave of the literary avant-garde that followed it.) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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