Cluny Brown: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (632 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01C54MJ84 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 101 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A part tailor-made for Audrey Hepburn!" according to Jo Manning. Ages ago, I heard of an English movie, Cluny Brown, with, I think, Jean Simmons and Charles Boyer. (Made during the early 'A part tailor-made for Audrey Hepburn! Jo Manning Ages ago, I heard of an English movie, Cluny Brown, with, I think, Jean Simmons and Charles Boyer. (Made during the early '40s?) But when I finally tracked down the novel from which it was taken, all I could think of was the young Audrey Hepburn, the Hepburn of Sabrina. (Not the pallid Jennifer Love Hewitt of the recent tv-bio, but the real Audrey, as we all knew her.) Cluny Brown is a young working class woman in 1938 London who is becoming a trial to her plumber uncle, Arn (he and his late wife raise. 0s?) But when I finally tracked down the novel from which it was taken, all I could think of was the young Audrey Hepburn, the Hepburn of Sabrina. (Not the pallid Jennifer Love Hewitt of the recent tv-bio, but the real Audrey, as we all knew her.) Cluny Brown is a young working class woman in 19A part tailor-made for Audrey Hepburn! Ages ago, I heard of an English movie, Cluny Brown, with, I think, Jean Simmons and Charles Boyer. (Made during the early 'A part tailor-made for Audrey Hepburn! Jo Manning Ages ago, I heard of an English movie, Cluny Brown, with, I think, Jean Simmons and Charles Boyer. (Made during the early '40s?) But when I finally tracked down the novel from which it was taken, all I could think of was the young Audrey Hepburn, the Hepburn of Sabrina. (Not the pallid Jennifer Love Hewitt of the recent tv-bio, but the real Audrey, as we all knew her.) Cluny Brown is a young working class woman in 1938 London who is becoming a trial to her plumber uncle, Arn (he and his late wife raise. 0s?) But when I finally tracked down the novel from which it was taken, all I could think of was the young Audrey Hepburn, the Hepburn of Sabrina. (Not the pallid Jennifer Love Hewitt of the recent tv-bio, but the real Audrey, as we all knew her.) Cluny Brown is a young working class woman in 1938 London who is becoming a trial to her plumber uncle, Arn (he and his late wife raise. 8 London who is becoming a trial to her plumber uncle, Arn (he and his late wife raise. Nina A. Schwartz said Cute but Disingenuous. This is a cute, charming and funny story--a little like Sabrina meets P.G. Wodehouse. Cluny's charm is not that she doesn't know her place (as everyone keeps telling her), but rather, that she knows full well It's Not Here--neither as a tradeswoman nor as a parlourmaid. I wish Sharp had endowed her with a better education and some romanticism, but the basics are there, and make for an enjoyable read.SPOILER ALERT:The resolution, for adults, is simply unbelievable. How could a plucky, intelligent girl b. "Wonderful!" according to Elaine McCarthy. This book is on my list of top five favorites of all time. I've read it at least half a dozen times, and love it afresh with each reading. The character is so frank and without pretense that I feel real fear for her when she attracts the attention and approval of a stodgily proper small-town business owner, even after all the previous readings. Perhaps it can't resonate as strongly for women who have never encountered stodgy propriety or condescending mansplaining, but it certainly sounded a chord in m
At Friars Carmel in Devonshire, Cluny meets her employers: Sir Henry, the quintessential country squire, and Lady Carmel, who oversees the management of her home with unruffled calm. An unconventional parlor maid upends the lives of an aristocratic family in New York Times–bestselling author Margery Sharp’s delightful comedy of manners set in England before the onset of World War II Cluny Brown has committed an unforgivable sin: She refuses to know her place. To teach her discipline, her uncle, a plumber who has raised the orphaned Cluny since she was a baby, sends her into service to be a parlor maid at one of England’s stately manor houses. While everyone around her struggles to keep pace with a rapidly changing world, Cluny continues to be Cluny, transforming the lives of those around her with her infectious zest for life. Then there’s Andrew’s beautiful fiancée and the priggish pharmacist. Last week, she took herself to tea at the Ritz. Then she spent almost an entire day in bed eating oranges. Their son, Andrew, newly returned from abroad with a Polish émigré write
“An entertaining story of England just before the war Top drawer reading.” —Kirkus Reviews Praise for Margery Sharp“One of the most gifted writers of comedy in the civilized world today.” —Chicago Daily News “Highly gifted . . . a wonderful entertainer.” —The New Yorker “Sharp’s dialogue is brilliant, uncannily true . . She is an excellent storyteller.” —Elizabeth Bowen “It is as natural for Miss Sharp to be witty as for a brook trout to have spots.” —Th