These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Mrs. 'Arris goes to Paris and Mrs. 'Arris goes to New York: by Paul Gallico
A simple kindhearted elderly charwoman who serves upper class bachelors in London by keeping their premises clean and is generous to her possible extent to her niece, and is content with her life on the whole. All she wants, if and when she permits herself to think of it, is a nice dress - a really nice dress, not an off the rack or anything in between but a really first rate dress from Paris. And then her adventures begin - first to Paris, then New York ....