Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Rose Macaulay was born into an intellectual family in 1881 in Rugby. When she was six, the family moved to a small coastal village in Italy, where her father made a living as a translator of classical works and editor of textbooks. There, she developed a sense of adventure that was to be a dominant feature of her life.
<p>'Rose Macaulay is so artful, so witty, so responsive. <em>The Towers of Trebizond</em> is a book which will irradiate not only the wet afternoons of a summer holiday, but memory as well.'<br /><em>The Times</em></p>
<p>'Rose Macaulay's <em>The Towers of Trebizond</em> is<br />an utter delight, the most brilliantly witty and captivatingly charming book I have read. Fantasy, farce, high comedy, delicious japes at many aspects of the frenzied modern world and a succession of illuminating thoughts about love, sex, life, churches and religion are all tossed together with enchanting results. Humane and shrewd, Rose Macaulay's is an engaging and idiosyncratic talent.'<br /><em>New York Times</em></p>
"'Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return to High Mass.' Thus starts, with one of the most famous opening lines in modern English literature, Rose Macaulay's classic novel, The Towers of Trebizond.
As wise, civilised and wholly entertaining as it was when first published in 1956, the novel tells the beautifully absurd story of the inimitable Aunt Dot, her niece Laurie and Father Chantry-Pigg – and of their expedition together to Turkey to explore the possibility of establishing a High Anglican mission there. Each member of the party has an additional extra-curricular motivation for making the trip: Father Chantry-Pigg wishes to meet the fanatics in residence at the top of Mount Ararat; Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women through wider use of the bathing hat; Laurie's object is
pure pleasure …
"'Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return to High Mass.' Thus starts, with one of the most famous opening lines in modern English literature, Rose Macaulay's classic novel, The Towers of Trebizond.
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Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Rose Macaulay was born into an intellectual family in 1881 in Rugby. When she was six, the family moved to a small coastal village in Italy, where her father made a living as a translator of classical works and editor of textbooks. There, she developed a sense of adventure that was to be a dominant feature of her life.