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
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling Wakeman, John (ed.) "World Authors 1950-1970", H. W. Wilson, New York (1975). Fuchs, Miriam (ed) "Marguerite Young, Our Darling" (Dalkey Archive Press, 1994) Miss MacIntosh, My Darling Miss MacIntosh, My Darling is a novel by Marguerite Young. She has described it as "an exploration of the illusions, hallucinations, errors of judgment in individual lives, the central scene of the novel being an opium addict's paradise." The novel is one of the longest ever written. Young began writing the novel in 1947, expecting it would take two years. She worked on it daily, and did not finish until 1964. Young has