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Majorie Daw
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Book Overview:
The story, which is written entirely as a series of letters between two friends, concerns the invention of an imaginary young woman, Marjorie Daw, by one correspondent, intended as a harmless diversion. When the other correspondent becomes madly smitten with the imaginary Ms Daw, the first correspondent is forced to confess his ruse.
The story, which is written entirely as a series of letters between two friends, concerns the invention of an imaginary young woman, Marjorie Daw, by one correspondent, intended as a harmless diversion. When the other correspondent becomes madly smitten with the imaginary Ms Daw, the first correspondent is forced to confess his ruse.
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Community Reviews
Very readable, and not at all the surprise ending I was anticipating!
How lovely to find a story by this author who I first discovered as a young teen. When people complain of books being too dense, I'll point to this novella, a collection of fictional letters and telegrams about an irritable man who slips on lemon peeling and fractures his leg. A volley of letters co
This story happens in 1872. John Flemming slips on a lemon peel and ends up with a fractured fibula. He doesn't take kindly to the forced idleness of being confined to his couch just as summer is getting underway and he is so surly that he chases his own sister away and begins pelting his servant wi
"Marjorie Daw" is a short story first published about 1869. I read it in the 1960's. It is about two friends exchanging letters as one of them recovers from an injury. One friend keeps up his injured friends spirits by making up a story about a young woman. His good intentions backfire ...more
Some reviewers here are impressed by the surprise ending. I'm surprised they're impressed.