Five O'Clock Tea

by Anonymous

A light-hearted romantic comedy in twelve short scenes, set during a tea party in the home of Mrs. Amy Somers, a widow who is courted by the ingenuous and delightful Mr. Willis Campbell. (Summary by Ruth Golding, from Librivox.org)Mrs. Somers, giving her Why, Mr. Campbell How very nice of you How long have you been prowling about there on the landing? So stupid of them not to have turned up the gas!

Genres: Fiction, Drama, Comedy, Plays, Historical Fiction, Classics

Paperback

First published January 1, 1889

About the author

Books can be attributed to "Anonymous" for several reasons:

* They are officially published under that name
* They are traditional stories not attributed to a specific author
* They are religious texts not generally attributed to a specific author

Books whose authorship is merely uncertain should be attributed to Unknown.

See also: Anonymous

Reviews

[🐶 Amy Beagle Mom x2 🐶 · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was hilarious. A farce in the style of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of being Earnest’, and Brandon Thomas’ ‘Charley’s Aunt’.
It was so funny and boy did I need the laughs.
A quick read - or listen- as I did, via a LibriVox recording.
Highly recommend.

[Timothy Ferguson · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting experience

This is a sort of comedy of manners. I enjoyed it, but at the same time thought it was about the right length: longer and I think it would have been too much. I think its because the writer's style is intricate and artificial, so that although people really did speak like that in the day, now it seems rather like a sort of clockwork or kabuki. Utterly false to the way modern people sound, and yet still interesting as an experience.

Martin Geeson does really well as the romantic lead in this. Martin's voice (Librivox recording) reminds me of some early Alan Rickman I saw once, for some reason. It's not that the sound similar, but there's a certain intricacy of ennunciation which is quite lovely.

[Leani · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reminiscent of Oscar Wilde, but not quite as funny. Excellent Librivox recording.

[Susan Molloy · Rating 3 out of 5]

So dull, I could not get past the first handful of pages.