num_pages: 210
description: The measurement of manners--as devotees of Anthony Trollope are well aware--can offer readers an amusing course in the vanities and verities of the human heart. Among modern novelists who have taken up the instruments of sophisticated observation, Angela Thrikell stands out as a droll yet sympathetic chronicler of town and country. Her intuitive grasp of the comedy of social relations among the cultivated gentry of 20th-century Britain, and the elegantly entertaining manner in which she translates her intuitions to the page, has won her a legion of dedicated and well-deserved admirers. O, These Men, These Men! first published in 1935 and long out of print, is one of Angela Thirkell's few non-Barsetshire novels. Believed to be something of a roman-a-clef , it deftly chronicles the sorrows and renewals, the heartbreak and graduation of happiness in the life of a refined young woman who has weathered the end of an ill-starred marriage.
language: English
title: O, These Men, These Men
titlecomplete: O, These Men, These Men
genres: Fiction, Classics, Romance, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 100
publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd