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Cargando... Through Connemara in a Governess Cartpor Edith Somerville, Martin Ross
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Two Anglo-Irish cousins take a tour through Connemara in the late 19th century, riding in a governess cart drawn by a mare named Sibbie. While there are some amusing moments, I found a lot of the "wit" in the book to be rather condescending, as were most of the descriptions of the locals. Then rather pompous tourists and visiting upper crust anglers, on the other hand, generally deserved the barbs flung at them. It may just be me: I didn't find the Miss Read series very interesting either. Perhaps this kind of 'observation' novel just doesn't appeal to me. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Only one sign of civilisation did we see between Recess and Kylemore, and it was of a wholly unexpected type. A middle-sized house, bow-windowed, gabled, stucco-covered, hideous beyond compare, standing in the middle of a grass plot at the foot of one of the hills, and looking as if some vulgar-minded fairy had transported it bodily from Brixton or Clapham Rise. And so the famous two cousins, Edith Oenone Somerville and Violet Florence Martin, observe the sights and sounds experienced on their week-long travels in Connemara. Their adventures begin with their buying of a neat governess cart and a mule called Sibbie to pull it and from there we read the delightful misadventures of the two ladies. The strange characters they meet, the habits of Sibbie, the isolated hotels they stay in are all described with the laconic wit and sharp eye that make this into an exquisite jewel of travel lore. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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