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Chargement... Give Us This Day (1973)par R. F. Delderfield
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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. 1434 Give Us This Day, by R. F. Delderfield (read 24 Feb 1977) This is the third and final volume of the Swann Family Saga.. It ends on the brink of Britain's entry into World War One. Much of it is distasteful--put in to spice up the book, I suppose. Much seems contrived. Not a good book--the first volume, God Is an Englishman, was the best. But, this volume was readable and if there were a fourth volume I'm sure I would have read it. But really, Delderfield can be tiresome: so much repetitive reflection! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:in the beloved classic God Is an Englishman saga "A heroic finale to the author's cavalcade of middle-class life." Sweeping Adam Swann and three generations of his family into the tide of events that followed Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, this stirring novel confronts them, and England, with the social upheaval of a rapidly changing world. The same revolutionary ferment that stirs up labor unrest also births the English suffragette movement, taking the family idealist, Giles, to Parliament. With conflicting interests, two of his brothers usher the family's firm into the twentieth century and another Swann brother, Alex, a professional soldier, attempts to introduce an outmoded army to modern tactics. Like their aging father, these Swanns strive energetically to wed personal dreams to national values-even as the rumble of the guns of August 1914 signals the end of the world as they and their country have known it. Give Us This Day is a stirring saga of England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, as the social upheaval begins and the Great War looms, forever changing the landscape of England and her people. "Mr. Delderfield's vast public will find here...his undimmed facility as a storyteller." "Rich and rewarding, the sort of thing to read at leisure and peacefully. Moreover, it is authentic...It has the spirit of the times." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I cannot help thinking there was a good germ of an idea for these novels that got buried early on. He invented some interesting characters that he just dropped, presumably because he either did not know what to do with them or could not fit them into his desire to pursue a historical thread Delderfield seemed to be determined to have a personal connection for each historical event of the century, and that required too many characters, for which there was far too little development. You could not care about any one character, because the author was too quickly off to someone else.
For me, there is one cardinal rule in fiction, that being that there must be consistency. You cannot tell me that a character is a certain thing and then have them do something that is contrary to that without offering me an explanation. I caught Delderfield doing this frequently.
Having a reading partner was a great relief. She brought a sense of humor to the journey, and she kept me willing to continue reading. So, thank you, Lori. On to better things!
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