Literary Time Period Nominations • May 2016

[caleb72]

I'll third The Greater Trumps

[fantasyfan]

I'll offer another nomination very different from my first. It is A Traveller In Time by Alison Uttley.

Alison Uttley is well known for her children’s stories such as those featuring the Little Grey Rabbit and Sam the Pig. She also wrote books for older readers and one of the finest is the wonderful YA novel, "A Traveller In Time", published in 1939 and a classic of its genre. The book uses the device of “time slip”--which is the fantasy equivalent of the time travel devices used in science-fiction. Time slips involve some transferral of consciousness to a different time period. In this case the heroine goes back to the period of Mary Queen of Scots and the terrible Babington Plot.

What happens to the physical body during a time slip? In Uttley’s book Penelope has a physical existence in the 16th century and while she is there, time apparently stops in the 20th century. However, it seems in one important section, things that happen to her in one time zone apparently can have physical effects on her in the other. The time slips themselves are beautifully presented with excellent linkages between the two ages.

Uttley came from the area where all the historical events take place and she has a remarkable precision and selection of detail which makes the world of this novel stand out with wonderful clarity; the writing is beautiful and there is a dream-like quality which is quite haunting.

Available:
Amazon.co.uk
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Traveller-T...veller+in+time

and
Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/Traveller-Tim...al-text&sr=1-1

[Bookpossum]

I'll second A Traveller in Time, and that's my four votes.

[sun surfer]

I third A Traveller in Time.

[Spinnenmonat]

My next nomination:Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a 1934 novel.

From Goodreads:
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.

[fantasyfan]

I'll use my last vote to second Tender Is the Night.

[sun surfer]

Tender is the Night won in the general book club already. I thought it would thus be ineligible but it looks like we only have that rule for rotating months, so the nomination stands. It's a great book, though I have already read it.

[Bookpossum]

I think it's reasonable for us not to worry about the other Club's winners. If some of us do belong to it and a book is nominated that won quite recently, then we could decide at that time whether we should have it on the list or not. As there are so few of us here, the chances are that it would not even be fully nominated, let alone win, unless those who had read it recently wanted to reread it.

In other words, I think that natural selection would sort out any potential doubling up.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by sun surfer

I third A Traveller in Time.

I will fourth and that's my last vote.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by Spinnenmonat

My next nomination:Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a 1934 novel.
From Goodreads:
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.

This is a great nomination. I really want to read it. I wish I had more votes.

[sun surfer]

Nominations are closed. I'll have the poll up shortly.


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