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Dodo : an omnibus (1893 original; edición 1986)

por E. F. Benson

Series: Dodo (1-3)

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Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.Benson's first book was Sketches from Marlborough. He started his novel writing career with the (then) fashionably controversial Dodo (1893), which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, which featured a portrait of composer and militant suffragette Ethel Smyth with the same cast of characters a generation later: Dodo the Second (1914) and Dodo Wonders (1921) The Mapp and Lucia series, written relatively late in his career, consists of six novels and two short stories. The novels are: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Mapp (including the short story "The Male Impersonator"), Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress (published as The Worshipful Lucia in the United States) and Trouble for Lucia. The short stories are "The Male Impersonator" and "Desirable Residences".In this book:Dodo's DaughterDodo WondersDodo, A Detail of the Day… (más)

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Miembro:	siriami
Título:	Dodo : an omnibus
Autores:	E. F. Benson
Información:	London: Hogarth, 1986. 532p 20cm pbk
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Dodo: An Omnibus por E. F. Benson (1893)

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Three quite different books, none very successful. The first is mostly a series of conversations among a group of proto-Bright Young Things, with a twist ending. Dodo the Second has a bit of a plot, “of more than usually revolting sentimentality,” and a character very like Georgie in the Mapp and Lucia books, presumably a self-portrait of Benson. Dodo Wonders gives us a portrait of the Home Front in WW I, which had some inherent interest, but again Benson does not yet seem to have developed the art, so evident in the Mapp and Lucia books, of hanging social observation and witty dialogue on a diverting, if inconsequential storyline. The composer Ethel Smyth is entertainingly portrayed in all three books.

booksaplenty1949 | Apr 4, 2023 |

The writing's fine as far as style's concerned, but the character of Dodo leaves a lot to be desired. She lacks compassion throughout the first two novels, living her life caring for no one but herself, and because she's so physically beautiful, no one seems to mind. People stand in awe of her, in fact, and it galled me to no end, and I kept wishing something truly awful would happen to her, but then when something finally did, she really didn't care because it happened not directly to herself but to her child. She puts me in mind of some of the vapid celebrities so common in our own time and the hordes who just adore them without the slightest reason why. Anyway, by the time I got to the third novel, Dodo Wonders, I no longer cared that Dodo had finally developed a sense of humanity as a result of the devastation of World War II and the slight downturn in her own financial circumstances. She is a truly unlikeable character, and I was glad to say "good riddance" when I turned the final page. (

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MadMaudie | Sep 5, 2020 |

If you enjoyed the Mapp and Lucia books, and are looking for something similar, then the Dodo books are not what you want. Read "Mrs Ames" or the brilliant "Secret Lives". "Dodo" was E. F. Benson's first novel, and it's a bit more serious than his later work. The heroine is a woman who gets engaged to a very decent rich man who adores her. She doesn't love him, but she doesn't see why this should be a problem as long as she behaves well. It's a remarkably sympathetic portrait of a total egotist. I love the two sequels too. They're all more like "The Pursuit of Love" than like E. F. Benson's later work. I think I was lucky to encounter these before the Lucia books, so I didn't have any preconceptions. (

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annesadleir | Jul 5, 2011 |

It's difficult to understand the popularity of this book in its day. Dodo is a shallow, faintly repulsive character who can't hold a candle to his later wonderful creation, Lucia.

tiffin | Feb 27, 2007 |

Dodo, Dodo the Second, Dodo Wonders

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E. F. Benson	—	autor principal	todas las ediciones	calculado
Scales, Prunella	Introducción	autor secundario	algunas ediciones	confirmado

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Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.Benson's first book was Sketches from Marlborough. He started his novel writing career with the (then) fashionably controversial Dodo (1893), which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, which featured a portrait of composer and militant suffragette Ethel Smyth with the same cast of characters a generation later: Dodo the Second (1914) and Dodo Wonders (1921) The Mapp and Lucia series, written relatively late in his career, consists of six novels and two short stories. The novels are: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Mapp (including the short story "The Male Impersonator"), Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress (published as The Worshipful Lucia in the United States) and Trouble for Lucia. The short stories are "The Male Impersonator" and "Desirable Residences".In this book:Dodo's DaughterDodo WondersDodo, A Detail of the Day

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