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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Melodramatic! Didn't like it. Not Haggard's best effort. ( ) I became of fan of Haggard in my teens when I read the Wisdom's Daughter, the first of his Ayesha books, and went back for more. Heart of the World is one of almost a dozen books by the author I had on my bookshelves, and this is the one I found least memorable. It's said if you can't get into a book by a hundred pages, you probably should give up. I'm beyond that point right now, and I'm just not feeling pulled forward by this. There are elements of Haggard even at his best that dates him. His narratives are rather melodramatic and overwritten, his depiction of not just races other than white, but anyone not English is, well, not exactly politically correct. Although at least in these first one hundred pages, it's notable that it's an indio, a descendent of Aztec emperors, who is our narrator, and other than his evident misogyny, very sympathetic, brave and intelligent. The depiction of women is more wince-worthy. However, I'm not sure why I'm not more engaged. A lost city, fabulous treasure, secret societies--what's not to love? But I just don't think the characters here are as compelling as Ayesha of She or Eric in Eric Brighteyes. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las series editorialesHenry Rider Haggard (Band 11)
"May I trouble you to open that cupboard near the foot of the bed, and to give me the pile of writing that you will find in it. A thousand thanks. Here, se or, in these pages, if you care to take the trouble to read them, is set out an account of how I and my English friend came to visit the Golden City, of what we saw and suffered there, and of some other matters which you may think superfluous, but that are not without their bearing upon the tale. I fear that my skill in writing is small, still perhaps it may serve its turn, and if not, it matters nothing, seeing that you seek the spirit, not the letter, and are not sufficient of a Spanish scholar to be too critical."Now take the book and put it away, for the very sight of it wearies me, recalling the hours of labor that I have spent on it. Also I wish to talk of something more important. Tell me, friend, do you propose to stop in this country, or to return to England?""Return to England Why, I should starve where there are no mines to manage. No, I am too poor.""Then would you return if you were rich?" asked the dying man anxiously."I do not know; it depends. But I think that I have been too long away to go to live in England for good.""I am glad to hear that, friend. . . ." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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