 ...A book is like a garden carried in the pocket... Chinese Proverb
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Zapraszam do zakupu książki: ACCORDING TO QUEENEY
by
BERYL BAINBRIDGE
Książka używana, w języku angielskim Stan książki: db++ (dedykacja na wyklejce, podniszczona obwoluta)
Oprawa: twarda z obwolutą
Ilość stron: 242
Rok wydania: 2001
MARGARET ATWOOD
'A stellar literary event... the biggest risk of her life'
THE TIMES
'It is hard to think of anyone now writing who understands the human heart as Beryl Bainbridge does...'
Beryl Bainbridge's latest novel is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain's greatest Man of Letters. The time is the 1770s and 1780s and Johnson, having completed his life's major work (he compiled the first ever Dictionary of the English Language) is running an increasingly chaotic life. Torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for Mrs Thrale, the wife of an old friend, ACCORDING TO QUEENEY reveals one of Britain's most wonderful characters in all his wit and glory. Above all, though, this is a story of love and friendship and brilliantly narrated by Queeney, Mrs Thrale's daughter, looking back over her life.
A few of Johnson's quotes: *Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures *No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money *When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.
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