| 词条 | The Cardboard Crown |
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| name = The Cardboard Crown | title_orig = | translator = | image = | caption = | author = Martin Boyd | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = English | series = Langton Tetralogy | genre = | publisher = Cresset Press, London | release_date = 1952 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print Hardback & Paperback | pages = 256 pp | isbn = | oclc = | preceded_by = Such Pleasure | followed_by = A Difficult Young Man }}The Cardboard Crown (1952) is a novel by Australian writer Martin Boyd. It is the first in the author's "Langton Tetralogy" (which comprises The Cardboard Crown, A Difficult Young Man, Outbreak of Love and When Blackbirds Sing).[1] Plot summaryThe novel follows the story of Alice Langton, as told by her grandson Guy de Teba Langton, who pieces the story together from her diaries and family gossip. Alice is trapped in a life where her happiness is a secondary consideration among the rest of the family, who make continual demands on her money. Alice moves constantly between her homes in Australia and Europe, always longing for the home she does not inhabit. ReviewsGeoffrey Hutton in The Argus noted that the author was writing a family saga of wealth and influence in Melbourne with a difference. "The prod-nosed social investigators may find some interesting sidelights here on the gilded life of the governing class in the 70's or the early affluence of East St Kilda before the parvenus flooded into Toorak. But Mr Boyd's only real interest is in the contrasting strains which appear in his oddly-mixed family and in the interaction between human frailty and unearned wealth.."[2] Gillian Dooley, writing in 2004 after the book had been re-issued, stated: "Boyd's subject matter is no doubt the principal reason for his neglect. By any standards, his prose is strong and luminous and his novels are beautifully crafted and immensely readable. But the late twentieth century had little patience with the scandals and vicissitudes of Anglo-Australian aristocratic families, with no apparent connections with convicts, sealers or whalers, or the indigenous people. Boyd was admittedly something of a good old-fashioned snob."[3] NoteText Publishing re-issued the novel in 2012 as part of its Text Classics series with an introduction by Brenda Niall.[4]See also
References1. ^Austlit - The Cardboard Crown by Martin Boyd {{Martin Boyd}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cardboard Crown, The}}2. ^"Mr Boyd leaves his own backyard" by Geoffrey Hutton, The Argus, 24 January 1953, p15 3. ^"Martin Boyd, The Cardboard Crown" by Gillian Dooley, JAS Review of Books, Issue 28, October 2004 4. ^[https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-cardboard-crown Text Publishing – The Cardboard Crown : Text Classics by Martin Boyd] 2 : 1952 books|Novels by Martin Boyd |
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