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The Foundations, by John Galsworthy.
THE FOUNDATIONS (AN EXTRAVAGANT PLAY)
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Delightful, the first act, what with Little Anne and almost everyone else! This is despite the bomb found in the wine cellar, too.
The second act brings us the possible one responsible, not so delightful. The gas man leaving a selfmade bomb in the wine cellar of the house he serviced, a home of a family with at least one child, is horrible enough; his bragging about it to his old mother whom he's unable to support, even as he drinks the bottle of port he stole from that cellar, is enough to bring disgust on himself.
Until he gets to speaking political philosophy, thst is - then he's a character out of a play by George Bernard Shaw! From Alfred Do little on, his speech could fit half a dozen of them.
The mother, old Mrs Lemmy, is another story.
But Galsworthy returns to the spirit after the second act, and after a great third act, one is left as curious as Little Anne at the end.
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June 10, 2021 - June 11, 2021.
Purchased June 14, 2013.
Kindle Edition, 97 pages
Published May 17th 2012
(first published 1920)
Original Title
The Foundations
ASIN:- B0084B3XKQ
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