Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography


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Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spiritualist prophet Thomas Lake Harris, writes here under the amusing guise of Lord Frank Vanecourt, bringing us a veritable pot-pourri of events from everyday life in 1865 as he moves amongst the great, the good, and not so good who reside in the exclusive area of London's Piccadilly W1 and its surroundings. (Introduction by Nigel Carrington) (7 hr 54 min)

Capítulos

01 - Preface and Part I: Love 44:09 Leído por TRUEBRIT
02 - Part IIa: Madness 32:18 Leído por TRUEBRIT
03 - Part IIb: Madness 28:41 Leído por TRUEBRIT
04 - Part IIIa: Suicide 32:52 Leído por TRUEBRIT
05 - Part IIIb: Suicide 35:52 Leído por Marian Cervassi
06 - Part IVa: The World 36:31 Leído por Malcolm Cameron
07 - Part IVb: The World 38:04 Leído por Malcolm Cameron
08 - Part Va: The Flesh 30:46 Leído por David Wales
09 - Part Vb: The Flesh 42:55 Leído por David Wales
10 - Part VIa: The ____ 48:31 Leído por Lucretia B.
11 - Part VIb: The ____ 38:31 Leído por Lucretia B.
12 - Conclusion 27:52 Leído por David Wales
13 - Conclusion 37:46 Leído por David Wales

Reseñas

A Boring Slog of a Book


(0.5 estrellas)

Maybe the book has lost much in "translation" - 1865 upper crust British to 21st century American, but I found this book to be a rambling incomprehensible mess and as such unable to finish it. The description implied that the book is an amusing view of the great, good, and the not so great. But aside from the characters' names it was hard to tell who was who. So unless you you roar with laughter over the stereotyping of American millionaires or subcontinental Indians or tirades against missionaries buying horses, I would suggest skipping this book and trying Charles Dickens or any of a dozen other mid nineteenth authors.