2013年11月30日 星期六

紐約時報一周英國文史書



'Havisham'

By RONALD FRAME
Reviewed by JANE SMILEY
Ronald Frame reimagines the life of Miss Havisham, Charles Dickens's jilted bride.
From the start, Kipling had an array of identities.

'100 Poems: Old and New'

By RUDYARD KIPLING. Edited by THOMAS PINNEY.
Reviewed by WILLIAM LOGAN
Selected poems of Rudyard Kipling combine the canonical with the never before published.
Washed ashore: A 70-foot model of Gulliver in Dublin, 2012.

'Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World'

By LEO DAMROSCH
Reviewed by JOHN SIMON
Leo Damrosch's biography of Jonathan Swift gives full rein to his many talents and contradictions.

'Servants'

By LUCY LETHBRIDGE
Reviewed by LEAH PRICE
A history of 100 years of domestic service in England and how it evolved.
 

'The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince'

By JANE RIDLEY
Reviewed by JOHN SUTHERLAND
Jane Ridley's "Heir Apparent" demonstrates that Edward VII, though popular when he became king, was immoral, selfish, philistine and rather stupid.
Queen Anne, 1703.

'Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion'

By ANNE SOMERSET
Reviewed by BROOKE ALLEN
Anne Somerset reconsiders some of our most unflattering ideas about Britain's Queen Anne.
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Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII, in a 16th-century painting.

'Elizabeth of York'

By ALISON WEIR
Reviewed by ROGER BOYLAN
Alison Weir chronicles the life of the first Tudor queen.
Leeds Castle, near Maidstone, in Kent.

'Outrageous Fortune: Growing Up at Leeds Castle'

By ANTHONY RUSSELL
Reviewed by HENRY ALFORD
Anthony Russell recalls holidays at grandmother's house.
Crime

Murder at the Vicarage

By MARILYN STASIO
In "No Man's Nightingale," by Ruth Rendell, Inspector Wexford investigates a murder case bungled by his old deputy.