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Gentlemen in England

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I read this book several years ago, and promptly sent it to my fiance in Australia. We both enjoyed it. It's a commentary, leaning toward satire on the mores, social customs and class system of an England that's now gone.

I thought the storyline was interesting.The "misunderstanding" central to the story served to illustrate just how rigid society's rules of the day were, and how much they effected the lives of people in all strata of that society.

A.N. Wilson's fiction "Gentlemen in England" is not worth the effort it took for me to get all the way through it. He seems determined to impress us with his linguistic abilities, sprinkling the text with polysyllabic vocabulary, foreign phrases, and longwinded descriptions. Apparently the book is meant to be humorous, however, I found it smug and self-indulgent. I did eventually develop a moderate interest in the characters and their machinations, then became totally disgusted with the ending, which is non-existent. It is as though Mr. Wilson got tired of the story, and quit. Don't waste your time on this one.