Résumé
Résumé de Ma Lady Nicotine
À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
For readers who love dry, affectionate humour, Victorian London and short, easy scenes about friendship. It is also good for anyone who has tried to drop a habit.
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My Lady Nicotine is a comic book about tobacco and the men who love it. J. M. Barrie published it in 1890, when he was a young Scottish writer making his name in London. It grew out of light newspaper pieces, and it gathers them into a loose, friendly run of scenes told by a narrator who looks back on his bachelor days and his smoking friends.
The book gives you good company and a lot of gentle laughter. It treats the pipe as a faithful companion, almost a lady to whom the narrator and his friends owe their loyalty. Along the way it asks what a habit really gives us, and what it costs. Let us begin with the narrator and the circle of friends who gather around his pipe.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A bachelor and his faithful pipeFree
- 2Friends gather around the smoking table
- 3Love and marriage threaten the pipe
- 4What the sketches really say
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A bachelor and his faithful pipe
The book is told by a narrator who looks back on his bachelor days in London, and who talks about smoking the way other men talk about a beloved friend. He speaks in a calm, teasing voice. He is fond of his habit and a little amused by it, and he invites us to be amused too.
The title sets the tone. Lady Nicotine is the narrator's playful name for tobacco, treated as a woman who has won his heart and will not let go. She asks very little and gives him comfort, thought and company. That joke runs through the whole book and gives it its warm, mock-serious flavour.
Barrie wrote about a world he knew, a world of lodgings, evenings by the fire and long talk over a pipe. His narrator has no great ambitions in these pages. He wants a quiet life, a good mixture of tobacco and friends who understand him. That simple wish is what the rest of the book tests.
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Questions about Ma Lady Nicotine
What is My Lady Nicotine about?
It is a comic book about a London bachelor and his friends, who share a love of pipe tobacco. Barrie uses their talk, courtships and failed attempts to quit to draw a warm picture of friendship and habit.
Who wrote My Lady Nicotine and when?
J. M. Barrie wrote it, and it appeared in 1890. He was then a young Scottish writer in London, years before his plays and the creation of Peter Pan made him widely known.
Who is Lady Nicotine?
She is not a real woman. Lady Nicotine is the narrator's playful name for tobacco, which he treats as a beloved companion that holds his loyalty and comforts him.
What is Arcadia Mixture in the book?
It is the pipe tobacco that the narrator and his friends prize. Its name suggests a happy, peaceful countryside, and the mixture becomes a symbol of their shared pleasure and loyalty.
Is My Lady Nicotine easy to read?
Yes. It is made of short, light scenes in a plain, teasing voice. The humour and the feelings about friendship and habit are easy to follow.