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Title details for Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner - Available

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s

by Cornelia Otis Skinner
Emily Kimbrough
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"To know Emily is to enhance one's days with gaiety, charm and occasional terror."—Cornelia Otis Skinner of her coauthor, Emily Kimbrough

Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough offer a lighthearted, hilarious memoir of their European tour in the 1920s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn Mawr. Some of the more amusing anecdotes involve a pair of rabbit-skin capes that begin shedding at the most inopportune moments and an episode in which the girls are stranded atop Notre Dame cathedral at midnight. And, of course, there's romance, in the form of handsome young doctor Tom Newhall and college "Lothario" Avery Moore. Published in 1942, the book spent five weeks at the top of the New York Times bestseller list in the winter of 1943 and was made into a motion picture in 1944.

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  • Release date

    January 1, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481566766
      • File size: 206418 KB
      • Duration: 07:10:02

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Text Difficulty: 4-8

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Celeste Lawson does a fine reading of this classic memoir. First published in 1942, it tells the story of two innocents abroad in the 1920s. Nineteen-year-old Cornelia Otis Skinner and twenty-one-year-old Emily Kimbrough set out on the adventure of a lifetime, first on the high seas and then in England. From ships running aground, to hiding a case of the measles to avoid quarantine, to unwittingly taking lodgings in a brothel, the young women experience one madcap adventure after another. Without excessive ingenuousness, Lawson keeps her reading on an even keel, allowing clever dialogue, comical situations, and witty repartee to carry the story forward. Nostalgia for a time when the most expensive item on a chic restaurant's menu was $2.95 will keep listeners engaged. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Text Difficulty:4-8

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