My First Years as a Frenchwoman- by Mary Alsop King Waddington

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My First Years as a Frenchwoman
by Mary Alsop King Waddington

My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Mary Alsop King Waddington is a 1914 memoir with such a curious title, that it caught my attention. (US Edition)  (UK Edition)  Let’s dive right in, as she does:

I was astonished at the way the mistress of the house mentioned my name every time she spoke to me: "Madame Waddington, êtes-vous allée à l'Opéra hier soir," "Madame Waddington, vous montez à cheval tous les matins, je crois," "Monsieur Waddington va tous les vendredis à l'Institut, il me semble," etc. I was rather surprised and said to W. when I got home, "How curious it is, that way of saying one's name all the time; I suppose it is an old-fashioned French custom. Madame de B. must have said 'Waddington' twenty times during my rather short visit." He was much amused. "Don't you know why? So that all the people might know who you were and not say awful things about the 'infecte gouvernement' and the Republic, 'which no gentleman could serve.'"

 [Footnote 1: "W.," here and throughout this book, refers to Madame Waddington's husband, M. William Waddington.]

You see this book is not only entertaining, but the footnotes are interspersed with the text and easily accessible.

Waddington is an American whose French husband is a diplomat.  That does not, however, make her a diplomat!

The position of the German Embassy in Paris was very difficult, and unfortunately their first ambassador after the war, Count Arnim, didn't understand (perhaps didn't care to) how difficult it was for a high-spirited nation [France], which until then had always ranked as a great military power, to accept her humiliation and be just to the victorious adversary. Arnim was an unfortunate appointment—not at all the man for such a delicate situation.  .  . He was a thorough man of the world, could make himself charming when he chose, but he never had a pleasant manner, was curt, arrogant, with a very strong sense of his own superiority. From the first moment he came to Paris as ambassador, he put people's backs up. They never liked him, never trusted him; whenever he had an unpleasant communication to make, he exaggerated the unpleasantness, never attenuated, and there is so much in the way things are said.

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The Secret Agent - by Joseph Conrad.

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The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent is a 1907 novel by Joseph Conrad. (US Edition)  (UK Edition)  It is a very good novel from an excellent writer.  Because it deals with terrorism, it has a higher profile now than before September 11.  (There was an excellent movie adaptation in 1996 with Robin Williams in an unaccredited role.)

The novel starts with a strong first paragraph!  It really draws you in.  It is a cynical novel and so quite in tune with our sensibilities.

Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law.

 And here is some of the undercover work:

He made no sign of greeting; neither did Mr Verloc, who certainly knew his place; but a subtle change about the general outlines of his shoulders and back suggested a slight bending of Mr Verloc's spine under the vast surface of his overcoat. The effect was of unobtrusive deference. 

"I have here some of your reports," said the bureaucrat in an unexpectedly soft and weary voice, and pressing the tip of his forefinger on the papers with force. He paused; and Mr Verloc, who had recognised his own handwriting very well, waited in an almost breathless silence. "We are not very satisfied with the attitude of the police here," the other continued, with every appearance of mental fatigue. 

The shoulders of Mr Verloc, without actually moving, suggested a shrug. 

And for the first time since he left his home that morning his lips opened. 

"Every country has its police," he said philosophically. But as the official of the Embassy went on blinking at him steadily he felt constrained to add: "Allow me to observe that I have no means of action upon the police here." 

"What is desired," said the man of papers, "is the occurrence of something definite which should stimulate their vigilance. That is within your province--is it not so?"

So read on and let this book give up its secrets to you.  

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The Way We Live Now - by Anthony Trollope

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The Way We Live Now
by Anthony Trollope

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope was published in 1875 and apparently reads as if it is, well, the way we live now.  (US Edition)  (UK Edition) 

Trollope’s books are densely plotted and full of well-developed characters.

To marry and have the command of money, to do her duty correctly, to live in a big house and be respected, had been her ambition,--and during the first fifteen years of her married life she was successful amidst great difficulties. She would smile within five minutes of violent ill-usage. Her husband would even strike her,--and the first effort of her mind would be given to conceal the fact from all the world. In latter years he drank too much, and she struggled hard first to prevent the evil, and then to prevent and to hide the ill effects of the evil. But in doing all this she schemed, and lied, and lived a life of manoeuvres.

  

Definitely as much 2012 as 1875.

 

Some people find Trollope a little mannered.  They do not like his obtrusive, fawning, narrator (see my italics in the next paragraph) or his naming characters with surnames that give clues to their character.  But this is all worth overlooking (assuming it bothers you) because story tellers like Trollope are rare.

But we must go back a little. Paul Montague had received a telegram from his partner, Hamilton K. Fisker, sent on shore at Queenstown from one of the New York liners, requesting him to meet Fisker at Liverpool immediately. With this request he had felt himself bound to comply. Personally he had disliked Fisker,--and perhaps not the less so because when in California he had never found himself able to resist the man's good humour, audacity, and cleverness combined. He had found himself talked into agreeing with any project which Mr Fisker might have in hand. It was altogether against the grain with him, and yet by his own consent, that the flour-mill had been opened at Fiskerville. He trembled for his money and never wished to see Fisker again; but still, when Fisker came to England, he was proud to remember that Fisker was his partner, and he obeyed the order and went down to Liverpool.

Trollope is generally viewed as having an earlier period and a later period, the former more gentle and the latter more sardonic; "The Way We Live Now" is definitely late period. The novel was successfully adapted for television and shown in the US & the UK.

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Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are - by William Godwin

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Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are
by William Godwin

Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are is a 1794 novel by William Godwin.  I am not sure where I heard of it, but an Amazon reviewer who liked it found it on a list of 1,001 books to read before you die. (US Edition)  (UK Edition)  

The book starts conventionally enough:

Mr. Falkland questioned me respecting my learning, and my conceptions of men and things, and listened to my answers with condescension and approbation. This kindness soon restored to me a considerable part of my self-possession, though I still felt restrained by the graceful, but unaltered dignity of his carriage. When Mr. Falkland had satisfied his curiosity, he proceeded to inform me that he was in want of a secretary, that I appeared to him sufficiently qualified for that office, and that, if, in my present change of situation, occasioned by the death of my father, I approved of the employment, he would take me into his family.

OK, we know something strange is going to happen and it does . . .

One day, when I had been about three months in the service of my patron, I went to a closet, or small apartment, which was separated from the library by a narrow gallery that was lighted by a small window near the roof. I had conceived that there was no person in the room, and intended only to put any thing in order that I might find out of its place. As I opened the door, I heard at the same instant a deep groan, expressive of intolerable anguish. The sound of the door in opening seemed to alarm the person within; I heard the lid of a trunk hastily shut, and the noise as of fastening a lock. I conceived that Mr. Falkland was there, and was going instantly to retire; but at that moment a voice, that seemed supernaturally tremendous, exclaimed, Who is there? The voice was Mr. Falkland's. The sound of it thrilled my very vitals. I endeavoured to answer, but my speech failed, and being incapable of any other reply, I instinctively advanced within the door into the room. Mr. Falkland was just risen from the floor upon which he had been sitting or kneeling. His face betrayed strong symptoms of confusion. With a violent effort, however, these symptoms vanished, and instantaneously gave place to a countenance sparkling with rage.

 
"Villain!" cried he, "what has brought you here?" I hesitated a confused and irresolute answer. "Wretch!" interrupted Mr. Falkland, with uncontrollable impatience, "you want to ruin me. You set yourself as a spy upon my actions; but bitterly shall you repent your insolence. Do you think you shall watch my privacies with impunity?" I attempted to defend myself. "Begone, devil!" rejoined he. "Quit the room, or I will trample you into atoms." Saying this, he advanced towards me. But I was already sufficiently terrified, and vanished in a moment. I heard the door shut after me with violence; and thus ended this extraordinary scene.

But, of course this is 1794 and that is no reason to quit your position!  (Besides he gets a nice tip the next morning.) This excerpt actually reminds me a bit of Jane Eyre.  Just keep overlooking your employer’s odd behavior . . .

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Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh - by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh is an 1864 Gothic novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.  (US Edition)  (UK Edition) It is narrated by a teenager and it is creepy, so it could have been written this year!  (Novels narrated by teenagers are nothing new and do not go out of fashion.)

Setting the stage, the narrator speaks of her father:

Rather late in life he married, and his beautiful young wife died, leaving me, their only child, to his care. This bereavement, I have been told, changed him—made him more odd and taciturn than ever, and his temper also, except to me, more severe. There was also some disgrace about his younger brother—my uncle Silas—which he felt bitterly.

And some spooky goings on about a key . . .

Then he looked steadfastly upon the key, and from it to me, suddenly lifting it up, and said abruptly, 'See, child,' and, after a second or two, 'Remember this key.' It was oddly shaped, and unlike others.

'Yes, sir.' I always called him 'sir.' 'It opens that,' and he tapped it sharply on the door of the cabinet.

'In the daytime it is always here,' at which word he dropped it into his pocket again. 'You see?—and at night under my pillow—you hear me?'

'Yes, sir.'

'You won't forget this cabinet—oak—next the door—on your left—you won't forget?'

'No, sir.'

'Pity she's a girl, and so young—ay, a girl, and so young—no sense—giddy. You say, you'll remember?'

The narrator accepts “girl” in this context, albeit with irony; but often chafes at being overlooked or condescended too.  You will find this plot does not condescend!

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Bat Wing Bowles - by Dane Coolidge

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Bat Wing Bowles
by Dane Coolidge

Bat Wing Bowles is a 1913 novel by Dane Coolidge. (US Edition)  (UK Edition)   

I am just a sucker for a Western:

"Well, what are you tagging along for then?" demanded Dixie Lee wrathfully. "When I said good-by to you up at Albuquerque you had a through ticket to California. Now here you are down at Chula Vista. What are you up to—that's what I want to know!"

"To be sure!" agreed Mr. Bowles. "Under the circumstances, you have a perfect right to an explanation. I may as well confess then, Miss Lee, that your stories told on the train have fired me with a desire to see the real West, not the pseudo or imitation article, but the real thing with the hair on, as you so aptly phrased it. But here was my difficulty—I had no one to direct me. The hotel-keepers, the ticket-agents, even my Eastern friends in the West, might send me astray and I be none the wiser. I admit it was hardly a gentlemanly thing to do, but rather than lose my last chance to see the great West of which you spoke I followed after you; but without the slightest intention, I assure you, of making myself obnoxious. Is this the hotel ahead?"

"Yes," said Dixie Lee, "it is. And while I wish to congratulate you upon your explanation I want to inform you, Mr. Bowles, that right here is where we part. You're looking for the Wild West, and here she is with her hair down. If you are hunting experiences these Chula Vista boys will certainly accommodate you; but from this time on, Mr. Bowles, we are strangers. We don't know each other, do you understand?

 The title has to do the ranch Dixie Lee owns, “The Bat Wing Ranch.”  Nice name!

So, Mr. Bowles, of course, tries to get a job at her ranch . . .

The old man glanced at his fancy new outfit, and thought he saw another way out.

"Can you ride?" he inquired, asking that first fatal question before which so many punchers go down.

"Yes, sir," answered Bowles politely.

"You mean you can ride a gentle horse," corrected Lee. "I've got some pretty wild ones in my bunch, and of course a new hand couldn't expect to get the best. Can you rope?"

"No, I mean any horse," retorted Bowles, avoiding the subject of roping. "Any horse you have."

"Hmm!" observed Mr. Lee, laying down his pipe and regarding his man with interest. "Did you ever ride any bad horses?"

"Yes, sir," lied Bowles; "several of them."

"And you think you can ride any horse I've got, eh?" mused Lee. "Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Bowles," he continued, speaking very deliberately; "I've got a horse in my remuda that killed a man last fall—if you'll ride him I'll take you on for a puncher." "Very well, sir," responded Bowles. "And thank you very much. It's very kind of you, I'm sure."

Hmmm, well now I have to know if he rode the horse and got the girl! 

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Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights - edited by E. Dixon

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Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights
- edited by E. Dixon

Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights edited by E. Dixon is based on the stories you may also know as One Thousand and One Nights.  This is an 1821 translation, abridged and edited “Cambridge, Xmas, 1893.” I find that postscript rather magical! (US Edition CORRECTED)  (UK Edition) 

Once again an intrepid Amazon reviewer says it best:

"The first part of the book includes eight wonderful stories, with brave kings and fair queens, facing perilous adventures, evil enemies and magical beings. The second part of the book includes the seven stories of the adventurous voyages of Sinbad the Sailor."

Here is an excerpt from the first story, where a king is so blinded by beauty that he does not initially notice his love does not speak . . .

One of them presently made answer, 'Sire, we have neither seen her open her lips, nor heard her speak any more than your majesty has just now; we have rendered her our services; we have combed and dressed her hair, put on her clothes, and waited upon her in her chamber; but she has never opened her lips, so much as to say, That is well, or, I like this. We have often asked, Madam, do you want anything? Is there anything you wish for? Do but ask and command us: but we have never been able to draw a word from her. We cannot tell whether her silence proceeds from pride, sorrow, stupidity, or dumbness; and this is all we can inform your majesty.'

Back to our reviewer above:

"The stories are excellently written, with beautiful descriptions of exotic and magical lands and gripping plots. What I loved most about this book, is the fact that the transitions from each story to the next, are so captivating that they make reading this book addictive, which of course makes sense, as it is the Arabian Nights."

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The Leavenworth Case - by Anna Katharine Green

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The Leavenworth Case
by Anna Katharine Green

I love “discovering” a “new” writer . . . . who last published about a hundred years ago!  Anna Katharine Green wrote many mystery novels; her first was “The Leavenworth Case” published in 1878.  (US Edition)  (UK Edition)  The Amazon reviewers rave about the quality of her plots and her writing – two things you are lucky to find well done in any decade.

Here our hero, who is a junior partner in a law firm, is confronted with the news of a client’s murder.  The client’s secretary has come to the firm to get assistance for the surviving nieces and has found the senior partner, Mr. Veeley, is away.

As Mr. Veeley was their uncle's best friend, they naturally sent me for him; but he being absent I am at a loss what to do or where to go."

"I am a stranger to the ladies," was my hesitating reply, "but if I can be of any assistance to them, my respect for their uncle is such——"

The expression of the secretary's eye stopped me. Without seeming to wander from my face, its pupil had suddenly dilated till it appeared to embrace my whole person with its scope.

"I don't know," he finally remarked, a slight frown, testifying to the fact that he was not altogether pleased with the turn affairs were taking. "Perhaps it would be best. The ladies must not be left alone——"

Whoa, that is strange for any day or age . . .

Let’s look a bit further:

"Are the ladies very much overcome?"

He took at least a half-dozen steps before replying. "

It would be unnatural if they were not." And whether it was the expression of his face at the time, or the nature of the reply itself, I felt that in speaking of these ladies to this uninteresting, self-possessed secretary of the late Mr. Leavenworth, I was somehow treading upon dangerous ground. As I had heard they were very accomplished women, I was not altogether pleased at this discovery. It was, therefore, with a certain consciousness of relief I saw a Fifth Avenue stage approach.

"We will defer our conversation," said I. "Here's the stage."

Nicely done!  This is a weird one and promises to be very enjoyable.!  I like my mysteries mysterious.  That is not so easy in the formulaic serial killer thriller world of today.

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Lady Susan - by Jane Austen

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Lady Susan
by Jane Austen

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel written by young Jane Austen and published posthumously. (US Edition)  ( £0.77 UK Edition) 

It has its fans among Amazon reader reviewers: “Short, but sweet. This book is so witty it cracks me up every time.”  

Nice!  Some more Jane Austen!  Let’s explore . . . 

But I was determined to be discreet, to bear in mind my being only four months a widow, and to be as quiet as possible: and I have been so, my dear creature; I have admitted no one's attentions but Mainwaring's. I have avoided all general flirtation whatever; I have distinguished no creature besides, of all the numbers resorting hither, except Sir James Martin, on whom I bestowed a little notice, in order to detach him from Miss Mainwaring; but, if the world could know my motive THERE they would honour me. I have been called an unkind mother, but it was the sacred impulse of maternal affection, it was the advantage of my daughter that led me on; and if that daughter were not the greatest simpleton on earth, I might have been rewarded for my exertions as I ought.

“Early” Jane Austen sounds better than "later" most everyone else . . .

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