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S'està carregant… The Master (1957)de T. H. White
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. T.H. White is a curate's egg kind of writer, whose skill with prose wasn't matched by the critical discipline of knowing what to leave out. In The Master, compelling scenes and details are offset by an implausible plot and gratuitous racism. Interesting as a cultural artefact of the early atomic age. ( ) T.H. White writes in his inimitable style. There are displays of erudition, most pleasing, excellent descriptions of the wildfowl about Rockall, and discussions of the children's and animal's internal lives as well as the domestic habits of the engineering staff. The book is not as good as "The Sword in the Stone" or "Mistress Masham's Repose" because its science-fiction is slightly ridiculous. It was written at a time when the memory of WWII was very fresh. http://nhw.livejournal.com/76945.html A while back Dave Langford quoted an unintentionally humorous passage from this novel: "Look," said the practical Judy. "Do you approve of being spanked?" "No, I don't." "Well, then." "Well, then what?" "If you can't make people be good with a hair brush, you can't with a vibrator, can you?" "I don't think it is the same." "It is the same," said Judy. But in fact the vibrators in question are the sinister machines with which the 157-year-old Master plans to Take Over The World from his island hide-out on Rockall in the North Atlantic. Judy and her brother Nicky, twins who, quite by coincidence, are the children of a duke and whose uncle is an American senator, happen to stumble across the Master's secret plans; what can they do to foil his fiendish plan? And yet that's not fair to this remarkable book either. The Master's entourage are beautifully sketched, and each of them has their own moral dilemma of how to prevent - or take over - the master plan. And most of the time we get the story from the children's point of view (indeed the above dialogue is about as close as they get to a philosophical discussion); with one memorably sympathetic though brief chapter told from the point of view of their pet dog. White of course is much better known for The Sword in the Stone and its expansion The Once and Future King, but this is a nice example of his skills. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Excerpt from The Master: An Adventure Story IT was a blistering day in July, and the swell of the sea was like melted lemonade bottles. The twins lay face down on the hot rock, dressed in nothing but overalls. Nicky was squinting at some stars or pin-points of light, which the sun threw on the glittering stone three inches from his nose. By letting his eyes go out of focus, these could be made to swim slowly to the left. Judy was fiddling with a broken egg-shell, admiring its thin, curved, fragile smoothness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)823.91Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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