The Shooting Party
A 20th Century, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction book. In this edition Julian Fellowes does the foreward, and this little novel, written in the 1980s, fits perfectly into his...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 190 pages
- ISBN: 9780141188676 / 141188677
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Questo romanzo mi ha spiazzato.Mi aspettavo qualcosa di diverso, un p pi "frivolo" se si pu usare questo aggettivo per un libro. E invece stato intenso. Dalla descrizione del paesaggio, dei personaggi e ai loro dialoghi, tutto cos profondo e decadente. Come i nobili con le sue convenzioni e la servit, che ormai non trovano pi posto... In this edition Julian Fellowes does the foreward, and this little novel, written in the 1980s, fits perfectly into his pre-ww1 Downton Abbey world. It is an examination of many characters during 24 hours of a pheasant shoot at a country estate just after Edward VII's death. It doesn't try come to any conclusions about the social situation,... This book should have been everything I like: accurate historical depiction, insightful character portraits, subtle, good prose, etc etc. And it was just SO uninteresting. I slogged my way into it, hoping that eventually I'd care about anything that was happening or anyone it was happening to, and about 3/4 of the way to the end I gave...
