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ISBN:	0143037250 (ISBN13: 9780143037255)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Fredericka, Freddy

Freddy and Fredericka

Mark Helprin

Paperback | Pages: 553 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 3611 Users | 587 Reviews

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Mark Helprin’s legions of devoted readers cherish his timeless novels and short stories, which are uplifting in their conviction of the goodness and resilience of the human spirit. Freddy and Fredericka—a brilliantly refashioned fairy tale and a magnificently funny farce—only seems like a radical departure of form, for behind the laughter, Helprin speaks of leaps of faith and second chances, courage and the primacy of love. Helprin’s latest work, an extraordinarily funny allegory about a most peculiar British royal family, is immensely mocking of contemporary monarchy and yet deeply sympathetic to the individuals caught in its lonely absurdities.

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Title	:	Freddy and Fredericka
Author	:	Mark Helprin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 553 pages
Published	:	July 25th 2006 by Penguin Books (first published 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor

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Ratings: 3.76 From 3611 Users | 587 Reviews

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This is the only one of Mark Helprin's books that just hasn't worked for me. The prose is still great. I think he tried too hard to replicate the humor of Memoir from Antproof Case. There were funny bits, but most seemed strained. Try his A Soldier of the Great War, Winter's Tale, or Memoir, my favorite book ever, instead.

I love this book.Have you ever seen Blackadder? I don't just mean the first season; I mean the seasons that make you realize Mr. Bean can be really sexy with some facial hair. For me, there are two very board and very general types of comedy (okay, there are really lots of comedy genres, but I'm talking very board stokes here). There is mean with the chance it might be funny (Letterman), and there is biting but funny and nice/touching (Blackadder, any British comedy, really). For instance, there

One of the best and funniest books I have ever read in my life. I recommend this book to all my friends. It's about a British Royal Family that the reader can't help but identify it with the present royal family during the life of Princess Diana. The queen and the British people despair at the Prince and Princess of Wales ever being fit to reign. This despair requires the the queen to send for Mr. Neil, the 10,000 year old guardian of the monarchy who is then presently working in an Italian sex

I tried to read both Winter's Tale and the Ant-Proof book but neither book interested me in the least. My husband loves them, and he reads about one novel every other year (when Christopher Buckley writes one, generally) so that about sums Helprin up for me.However, a friend gave me this for my birthday and I gave it a try. First, I love books about noble struggles, books that combine modern conundrums with ancient solutions, books about finding true love. The opening scene in which Freddy has

I loved it. I love Mark Helprin. It took a while for me to see the plot developing as the setup took a good couple hundred pages, but once you get through the setup -- which is hilarious if you just roll with it -- you get to the good stuff. My favorite thing about Helprin's books is the way he does all this crazy wordsmithing and then out of nowhere condenses it all into a paragraph of precise truth. Those moments leave me in tears. I loved it. (My thing is precision in language. As a linguist

The unlikely premise of this glorious romp is that the Prince and Princess of Wales are behaving so fecklessly as royals that they are parachuted without resources into the USA, to undergo trial by fire and retake the colonies for the crown! The pair begin as alternate versions, caricatures, of Charles and Diana, but their journey transfigures them into bigger, bolder and deeper characters. They follow a picaresque series of increasingly funny adventures as they cross the continent, finding new

I have no idea how to rate this bookits hilarious and ridiculous, farcical and heartwarming. (The beginning and end of the bookthe parts set in Great Britainare worthy of a full 5 stars.) At one point I actually laughed until there were tears streaming down my face, and several times my husband had the treat of being read an especially amusing part aloud (which usually resulted in a puzzled look and a quick exit from the room). Other times, though, Helprin settled for humor that was a bit junior