Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

A London Trilogy

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Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (Paperback, 2008, NYRB Classics)

Paperback, 528 pages

English language

Published Feb. 19, 2008 by NYRB Classics.

ISBN:
9781590172568
OCLC Number:
154705214

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3 stars (1 review)

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I finished! Thank god! Arrrgggghhhh!

I mean, at least, Ella part is much better than Bob. Author made more events in it (), and didn't got so angry and sarcastic in this one, probably because Bob is his semi-biography, he really was doing quite some self-hating (x

Ella and Jenny both have more discussions on what the Class system does to people. Ella deals more with general suffering of commoners, who has not many options and has to take whatever is thrown at them. oh dear, so relatable (?

Jenny had one more privilege over Ella, and in a sense she got taken advantage more because of that. So probably in the end what I could see is the problem of the predatory world.

It's really interesting to see how people view and deal with the uncaring nature, and unfair society, huh. Patrick Hamilton was not wrong in his observations, …

Subjects

  • Classics
  • Literary
  • Fiction / Literary
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General
  • City and town life
  • London (England)