dünnes Büchlein

Wieder einmal mußte ich heute Morgen schnell entscheiden und ich habe nach einem ziemlich dünnen Buch gegriffen, es hat gerade einmal 102 Seiten. Ich habe mir auch schon überlegt, was die nächsten zwei Bücher sein werden, und es könnte gut sein, das ich mal zwei deutschsprachige lesen.

Damit habe ich heute begonnen - und werde es wohl auch heute beenden:

Henry JAMES
Cathedrals and Castles

Product Description: The American Henry James’s descriptions of the countryside, monuments, universities, cathedrals, castles, customs and manners of the English are filled with elegant charm and good humour. Here he delights in the hidden corners of ancient Chester streets, marvels at the drunken jollity of Epsom Derby day and savours the calm shadows of Glastonbury abbey, in a hymn to stained-glass windows, crumbling cottages, Norman towers, weather-beaten gables and the English genius. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside – but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land – as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man’s relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).