Great Literary Friendships

ISBN-13: 9781851245826 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str.

Janet Phillips

Opis

Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. This book explores 24 fictional friendships in succinct, structured entries, spanning 400 years, and writers as diverse as Jane Austen to John Steinbeck. Beautifully packaged, this is the ideal gift for your literature-loving friend.

Recenzje

'A few pages in you feel you are in the company of a sprightly, charming, well-read friend . . . a masterful story-teller, her short essays on pivotal friendships feel like entering sunlight from thick fog, you'll see and hear what you never noticed on first reading.' Country Life Magazine

Spis treści

ContentsIntroductionChildhoodSoulmates: Jane and Helen - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)Liberty and Conformity: Tom and Huck; Huck and Jim - Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)Bosom Pals: Anne and Diana - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908)Competitive Companions: Pooh and Piglet - A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)Mad Bad Girls: Meena and Anita - Meera Syal, Anita and Me (1996)Housemates: Harry, Ron and Hermione - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter series (1997-2007)Students and ApprenticesPrince and Philosopher: Hamlet and Horatio - William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600)Career Advice: Pip and Herbert - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)A Bystander's Elegy: Charles and Sebastian - Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945)Crème de la Crème: Sandy, Jenny, Eunice, Mary, Monica, Rose and Miss Brodie - Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)Campus Collusion: Richard, Bunny, Henry, Francis, Camilla and Charles - Donna Tartt, The Secret History (1992)Heart to HeartInseparable: Rosalind and Celia - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (1599)Reserve and Recklessness: Jane and Emma - Jane Austen, Emma (1815)Light and Shade: Lucy and Maggie - George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)Three Cheers for the Singletons: Bridget, Shazzer, Jude and Tom - Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)AdventureBickering and Bonhomie: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza - Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605)Partners in Crime: Holmes and Watson - Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes series (1887-1903)Host and Guest: Ratty and Mole - Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908)Heroes of Middle-earth: Frodo and Sam - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (1954)Hard TimesLoneliest in the World: George and Lennie - John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937)Kinship: Okonkwo and Obierika - Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958)Amazon Sisters: Miss Celie, Shug and Sofia - Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)Undercover Allies: Moira and Offred - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) For Better, For Worse: Lina and Elena - Elena Ferrante, The Neapolitan Novels (2011-2014)NotesFurther ReadingAcknowledgementsIndex

O autorze

Phillips, Janet

Janet Phillips is an editor at Bodleian Library Publishing.