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John Halifax, Gentleman
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Book Overview:
This novel was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fletcher, an invalid son of a Quaker tanner who is presented to us in the beginning as a lonely youth. John Halifax, the first friend he ever had, is a poor orphan who is taken in by his father to help in the work which his sickly son can't constantly do. Phineas tells us in an unforgettable way how John succeeded in rising from his humble beginning and become a wealthy and successful man. But with the money come horrible troubles... In an unforgettable manner, we learn to know all the characters of the novel as if they really lived.
This novel was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fletcher, an invalid son of a Quaker tanner who is presented to us in the beginning as a lonely youth. John Halifax, the first friend he ever had, is a poor orphan who is taken in by his father to help in the work which his sickly son can't constantly do. Phineas tells us in an unforgettable way how John succeeded in rising from his humble beginning and become a wealthy and successful man. But with the money come horrible troubles... In an unforgettable manner, we learn to know all the characters of the novel as if they really lived.
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John at length asked him if he were satisfied.
"Quite satisfied."
But, having said this, he sat so long, his hands locked together on his knees, and his hat drawn down, hiding all the face except the rigid mouth and chin—sat so long, so motionless, that we became uneasy.
John spoke to him gently, almost as a son would have spoken.
"Are you very lame still? Could I help you to walk home?"
My father looked up, and slowly held out his hand.
"Thee hast been a good lad, and a kind lad to us; I thank thee."
There was no answer, none. But all the words in the world could not match that happy silence.
By degrees we got my father home. It was just such another summer morning as the one, two years back, when we two had stood, exhausted and trembling, befor. . . Read More
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I wanted to read this book as it is where my Grandad found the name for my Mum. I wasn’t sure what to think when I started but I was soon drawn in. It is a really well written book that I will always cherish
It's no a bad book but it is a bit... boring.
2.5*
This book is Victorian values examplified.
A good read to get the feels around Christmas time.
I like that there is, as in all of the author's novels I've read so far, a character considered outside society back than: the chronically ill Phineas, who tells the story of our actual protagonist the poor
I really loved this book. It was beautifully written, with such a powerful storyline, following two men over the course of more than forty years of their lives. I loved the relationship between Phineas and John and really loved all the twists and turns in the narrative. A great read.
This book has restored my faith in Victorian literature after some doubt crept in with Harrison Ainsworth and Bulwer Lytton, groan.
Napoleonic wars, bread riots, religious intolerance, industrial revolution....it's all here in the life of this most perfect of heroes. Don't read it if you don't like o