The Darling Buds of May (novel) any barriers to free enterprise. The title of the book is a quote from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date;" [...] Pop and Ma Larkin celebrate sex, youth, and vitality. In each novella in the series, Pop Larkin kisses, caresses, and pinches most of the women that he encounters. Ma Larkin expects this behaviour and approves of it. When told that Pop has kissed the middle-aged
The Darling of Paris The Darling of Paris The Darling of Paris is a 1917 American silent romantic drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara and Glen White. It was a very loose film adaptation of the 1831 novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo. It was produced by William Fox. "The Darling of Paris" was later re-edited from six to five reels and re-released by Fox on February 16, 1919. The film is now considered lost. The wealthy girl Esmeralda (Theda Bara) is kidnapped by gypsies at birth and becomes, as one might assume, the darling of Paris.