
The Blue Sapphire
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Narrated by:
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Hilary Neville
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By:
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D. E. Stevenson
On a beautiful spring day, Julia Harburn sat on a seat in Kensington Gardens enjoying the sunshine.
She was wearing a white frock and a large straw hat with a sapphire-blue ribbon which exactly matched her eyes - a strange coincidence, as it turned out, for the blue sapphire was to have a far-reaching influence upon her life.
So far, her life had been somewhat dull and circumscribed; but quite suddenly her horizons were enlarged. She began to make new friends - and enemies - and she began to discover new strength and purpose in her own nature. This development of her character led her into strange adventures.
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Lovely, vintage DES
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my favorite d e stevenson book
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Delightfully silly story
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A better DE Stevenson book about a young woman leaving a sheltered life is "Listening Valley."
If you're looking for something not terribly hard to follow with no big surprises or alarming plot turns, this could fit the bill. (And I'm not being sarcastic, sometimes a quiet book is needed.) It should be noted that this book puts forth a few more stereotypes and recycled characters than usual.
The narrator, Hilary Neville, does her usual excellent job.
A meandering journey
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Not my favourite Dorothy Stevenson
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Predictable and boring
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There is so much casual racism here. “The darkest Africa”, referring to a native African as “the creature” and pulling out the N-word when referring to how hard the character was working. Additionally, there is the casual rape of Africa’s natural resources, and (what would now be considered illegal) insider trading on the stock market.
The main character is so vapid that she doesn’t know how to find an actual job. She is multi lingual but ends up working retail making very little money. Which doesn’t matter really because her daddy is wealthy and gives her an allowance, plus the aforementioned insider trading gives her a tidy nest egg.
This book has some funny moments, but the condescending manner is which it is written will make any modern reader grind teeth in frustration and stop reading before the end of the first chapter. Do yourself a favor and skip this altogether.
Story is awful
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