Lolly Willowes

Or the Loving Huntsman

De: Sylvia Townsend Warner

Narrado por: Sarah Nichols

In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster's struggle to break away from her controlling family - a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange.

Warner is one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of 20th-century literature, a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that anticipates the fantastic flights of such contemporaries as Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.

Public Domain (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

caught me by surprise

Seems to be a dating book for the times. With a urprise ending and thought provoking themes. I enjoyed it.

Authenticity

I’m amazed by the narrator’s enthusiasm and tone! I loved the story, it leaves a clear impression of a woman looking for her freedom and internal peace. Authentic, ironic and poetic.

So uneven, disappointing

This is a strange book, and I like strange books. But it didn’t convince me with its unexpected turn in the second half. It felt like an idea half executed. Excellent narration.

The utter barrenness of Lilly's character.

I found this story to be grim and without purpose. There was no deeper meaning other than a woman who wants to live unencumbered by relationship or any deeper meaning to life other than to live as she wants without regard to anybody or anything else.

Depressing story

This story about becoming a witch was all about Satan, giving up,and going nowhere, not very inspiring, or hopeful.