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Work InformationPebbles on the Shore by A. G. Gardiner (1916)
None No current Talk conversations about this book. Fascinating set of essays written about...nothing much, just what was going on and what the author was thinking about, in England during WWI. The essays were written as newspaper pieces - just filler, it looks like, without any particular direction - but one a day. Thoughts about nature (the woods, the stars, his garden...), about fashion and clothing (he Discovers! that women don't have decent pockets (and apparently his wife doesn't mind that) and discusses some of the fixes for that...those fixes are still in process, a hundred+ years later. Sigh), about habits of body and thought, and how the war is upending some of them (and not others); about things he sees and people he meets and talks to - there's nothing Deep here, just everyday life, which is what makes it so fascinating. Casual mention of authors who are people he's met (or at one or two removes - a friend of a friend), who are classics now; equally casual mention (quotes, etc.) of authors I've barely heard of, who he considers on an equal footing with the others. It was very enjoyable to read, and I expect to go back to it over and over and find new things every time. ( ![]() no reviews | add a review
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