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Chargement... A Window in Thrums (1889)par J. M. Barrie
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Various episodes in the lives of a poor Scottish family. 1/4 (Bad). The humor occasionally works. The attempts at heart-string pulling are blunt, ham-fisted garbage. All of it is buried under a layer of near-indecipherable phonetic accent/dialect. It's hard to believe this is the same guy who would go on to write Peter Pan. A very early book by the author of Peter Pan, and my particular copy is a very old beautiful little book with a colorful textured 3-D cover that I definitely enjoyed carrying around for a few days. Over half of this book is written Scottish dialogue that was very difficult to get into. But, as with those subtitled foreign movies that seem so insufferable in the beginning, my mind eventually adapted, and it moved along much easier. Billed often as a novel, it is more a series of vignette short stories that take place in a poor little house and its inhabitants in the little village of Thrums, told through the eyes of a family friend that seems to spend summers boarding with them. The 'window' is that which the disabled lady of the cottage uses to stay connected to the outside world. Charming, sometimes funny, other times sad, but by the end, you feel that you know this simple little family rather intimately. Again, not for the faint of heart with the dialogue, but enjoyable, nonetheless, especially with my little volume. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A Window in Thrums a fictional sketch of Scottish life - is one of several novels about the fictional village of Thrums, said to be modeled on Barrie's home town of Kirriemuir." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The scots dialect is heavy, but has some charming words and turns of phrase. ( )