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Comedies of Courtship, by Anthony Hope (1894)
text - audiobook (6 hrs 28 min; I read 1h 17m)
This is a collection of two novellas and four short stories, nearly all on the general theme of young gentry types having romantic misunderstandings which usually turn out OK. I think these were probably churned out in that era at an even greater rate than Hallmark Christmas movies are today. The reason I was curious about this one was that the author is now best known for something in a different genre: the adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda. Both books were published in the same year, and I suspect that this one—collecting some previously published work along with some unpublished stories—might have been rushed into print due to the massive popularity of Zenda, before which Hope had had some minor literary success but hadn't been able to quit his day job as a lawyer. In any case, there's almost nothing here to interest most modern readers, but read on if you're curious.
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text - audiobook (6 hrs 28 min; I read 1h 17m)
This is a collection of two novellas and four short stories, nearly all on the general theme of young gentry types having romantic misunderstandings which usually turn out OK. I think these were probably churned out in that era at an even greater rate than Hallmark Christmas movies are today. The reason I was curious about this one was that the author is now best known for something in a different genre: the adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda. Both books were published in the same year, and I suspect that this one—collecting some previously published work along with some unpublished stories—might have been rushed into print due to the massive popularity of Zenda, before which Hope had had some minor literary success but hadn't been able to quit his day job as a lawyer. In any case, there's almost nothing here to interest most modern readers, but read on if you're curious.
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