Edward Glover
Autor(a) de Freud or Jung
About the Author
Obras de Edward Glover
La Psicoanalisi 6 cópias
War Sadism And Pacifism 3 cópias
War, sadism & pacifism; three essays 2 cópias
War, sadism and pacifism 1 exemplar(es)
Investigation of the Technique of Psycho-Analysis 1 exemplar(es)
Technique of psychoanalysis 1 exemplar(es)
Selected papers on psycho-analysis 1 exemplar(es)
The Music Book 1 exemplar(es)
An investigation of the technique of psycho-analysis 1 exemplar(es)
Psychoanalysis: A Handbook For Meical Practitioners and Students of Comparative Psychology (2nd Ed.) 1 exemplar(es)
Basic Mental Concepts: Their Clinical and Theoretical Value 1 exemplar(es)
The Technique of Psycho-analysis 1 exemplar(es)
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- male
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 24
- Membros
- 109
- Popularidade
- #178,011
- Avaliação
- 2.8
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 13
- Idiomas
- 1
This was another birthday present, a signed copy given to me by the author's wife. It's the third in a series of novels about the relationship over centuries between two aristocratic families, one British, one German. The plot covers a pretty vast sweep of years, from 1853 to 1918, with a dramatis personæ of multiple generations on each side, occasionally with recurring or at least very similar names for different characters, which is entirely realistic but can be a bit confusing.
It's very humane and understanding of the human condition on both sides; the fact is that there was not much to choose between Germany and England in terms of social progress in the late nineteenth and very early twentieth centuries, and I think the treatment of the two families - both subject to their internal stresses - is fair. There is a pretty good plotline with a governess's daughter whose real parentage eventually comes to light. There are lots of nicely done romantic turning points for the intermingling generations.
The big problem with the book is that it covers 65 years in less than 300 pages, so we skip from turning point to turning point (each of which is vividly told) without much time to pause for breath. The author admits in the afterword that he wrote it in only seven months, I think it would have been a better book at 50% longer and twice the time taken. Also, it suffers from being the third book in the series, with unspoken events from the mid-eighteenth century shadowing a lot of the action - I am sure I would have enjoyed it more if I had read the first two. I did wonder how realistic it is that family secrets from decades before should remain a potential cause for concern about scandal a century or so later, but since I don't know what those family secrets are I suppose I can't really judge.
Anyway, it's an engaging read and I may indeed look out for the earlier books to satisfy my curiosity about the back-story.… (mais)