"'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 ...
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"'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 ...
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Add this copy of The Towers of Trebizond to cart. $4.09, good condition, Sold by Aardvark Books Ltd rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bucknell, HEREFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1981 by Macdonald Futura Publishers.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 400grams, ISBN:
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Good. This story describes the experiences of a group of people on a trip to Turkey. Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women through the encouragement of a wider use of the bathing hat, whilst Laurie's only object is pleasure. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212. Good clean copy showing light age and shelf wear. Title and copyright pages have been removed. Scoring to dedication page. Otherwise interior is very clean. 2010. paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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After reading reviews by folks who gave 5 stars and nearly gushed with enthusiasm over The Towers I was prepared to be overwhelmed. Alas, dear reader, I was underwhelmed. (I wrote, in my How Green Was My Valley review, that I feared I would never be so impressed with any other book ever again---see, it's already happening.)
The begginning of the book did, however, overwhelm me with the ceaseless and excruciatingly detailed lesson on the Anglican church. Then the old Auntie and annoying priest disappear halfway along (thank god) and left me alone with the young woman and the camel (my favorite character in the book.) This is where I should have begun the book for it was delightful. Nice prose, nice landscape depiction and ancient history references. She has a bit of a lovely adventure overthere and eventually returns to jolly old England where, again, the editor abandoned the book. For some reason the woman goes on and on for pages about the Anglican church again and, even worse, wastes several trees worth of pages trying to train a monkey to drive, attend church and garden. Stupid nonsense that should have ended up on the editor's floor. I skipped it without losing anything.
What happend next made me irritable and I wanted a pair of gloves with which to smack the editor. What was she thinking? The book's tone had been extremely lighthearted up to then, downright silly at times. Then all the sudden, she springs an outtright tragedy wrapped up with a red (red, the color of the Scarlet Letter) bow. It was out of place and felt like 2 differently minded people argued about how the book would be written and then settled on sharing the work but not bothering about smooth transitions between the two's vastly different styles. In summary, it was a nice book, but should have had (seriously yall) half of it edited away. I put the book down frowning and annoyed. As the kids say, It harshed my dream mellow.
