Winter 2017 (56: Makinfg the Best of It}
DiscussãoSlightly Foxed - An appreciation
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1abbottthomas
The works covered in this issue are:
Innocents, The Joy-Ride and After, The Middling and Life stories by A L Barker
The Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Dragon Book of Verse
Travelling in Amherst: A Poet's Journal by Robert Francis
When I was a Little Boy by Erich Kastner
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
The Wrong Side of the Sky, The Most Dangerous Game, Midnight plus One, Shooting Script and Judas Country by Gavin Lyall
The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer by Vivien Noakes
Essays by George Orwell
The Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Punch Pictures by Frank Reynolds
Tea at Florian's by Spencer Somers
There is also an article by Michael Holroyd on the writing of biography.
Looking at LT copies, there are two works and another series which clearly need no recommendation - Wuthering Heights, Remembrance of Things Past and the Chalet School books. Bronté scores over 35,000 and Proust and Brent-Dyer are both well into five figures. Kipling manages to get past 3000 and then there are three with 100+, Orwell's Essays (523), The Life of the Bee (294) and Kastner's memoir of his childhood (153). Gavin Lyall has a modest number of fans with his five listed books scoring in the 30 - 90 range. A L Barker is less well known with nothing in double figures and no copies at all of her Life Stories. Four people own a set of the Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia, one copy each of Reynold's Cartoons and Travelling in Amherst and a blank for Tea at Florian's.
Innocents, The Joy-Ride and After, The Middling and Life stories by A L Barker
The Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Dragon Book of Verse
Travelling in Amherst: A Poet's Journal by Robert Francis
When I was a Little Boy by Erich Kastner
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
The Wrong Side of the Sky, The Most Dangerous Game, Midnight plus One, Shooting Script and Judas Country by Gavin Lyall
The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer by Vivien Noakes
Essays by George Orwell
The Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Punch Pictures by Frank Reynolds
Tea at Florian's by Spencer Somers
There is also an article by Michael Holroyd on the writing of biography.
Looking at LT copies, there are two works and another series which clearly need no recommendation - Wuthering Heights, Remembrance of Things Past and the Chalet School books. Bronté scores over 35,000 and Proust and Brent-Dyer are both well into five figures. Kipling manages to get past 3000 and then there are three with 100+, Orwell's Essays (523), The Life of the Bee (294) and Kastner's memoir of his childhood (153). Gavin Lyall has a modest number of fans with his five listed books scoring in the 30 - 90 range. A L Barker is less well known with nothing in double figures and no copies at all of her Life Stories. Four people own a set of the Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia, one copy each of Reynold's Cartoons and Travelling in Amherst and a blank for Tea at Florian's.
2abbottthomas
Well, not surprising that Tea at Florian's didn't show up, and that there were no copies on abebooks. In the Spring issue the editors admit that it was a spoof written by Derek Parker. Looking back at the article, I can't believe I took it seriously - E M Forster sitting outside a boarded up Florian's with the aqua alta up to the knees of his tweed suit waiting to have his picture taken, indeed! I must have been full of the Christmas spirit when I read it.
