Paper Chains [Paperback]

Jane, Illustrated by Cover Art Langton (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Harper & Row (1977)
• ASIN: B000OEMXQ6
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

More About the Author

I've written an awful lot of books. There are eleven for middle-aged children, mostly fantasies. The ones that have hung around the longest are "The Diamond in the Window" and "The Fledgling." The seventh in the series called "The Hall Family Chronicles" came out last spring, "The Mysterious Circus," and I've just finished writing an eighth, "The Dragon Tree."

All eighteen mysteries for adults have the same protagonists, Homer and Mary Kelly. Mary is the sensible one, but I confess I like Homer's rhapsodic flights of fancy. Most of their adventures happen in Massachusetts, but I've also sent them to farflung places I wanted to visit myself, like Florence, Oxford and Venice. Most of the novels are illustrated with my own drawings, but "The Escher Twist" has ten prints by the mysterious Dutch artist M. C. Escher, and the two historical mysteries are illustrated with nineteenth-century photographs.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An off-beat, totally charming look at college life., April 10, 1999

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This review is from: Paper Chains (Library Binding)

Our heroine, Evelyn, is a freshman at college, and we follow her exuberant experiences as she plunges into the discovery of quirky acquaintances and the oddities of college life, pictured by Langton at her whimsical best. Most charming of all are here passionate "unsendable love letters" to the professor she has a mad crush on. At once savvy and innocent, determined to meet life head-on, Evelyn's first year of independance is a joy to share. Read this book, it's a treat!

5.0 out of 5 stars It's all there!, June 2, 2009

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This review is from: Paper Chains (Library Binding)

The delights of college, related by a gloriously extroverted Freshman girl -- friends, classes, in-jokes, mad crushes on professors -- it puts you in mind of Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs", only updated to the seventies. How I loved that book! How I love this one!