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Anna-Luise Fischer: The daughter of the title’s Dr Fischer and wife of narrator Alfred Jones. She despises her father for the way he treats people, especially how he treated her late mother. Dr Fischer: A fabulously wealthy man who made his fortune via the invention of perfumed toothpaste.
- Graham Greene
- 1980
In straightforward first-person narrative it tells the story of Alfred Jones’s love for Anna-Luise Fischer, daughter of the mysterious and powerful doctor, his marriage to her, his...
Jones is surprised to learn that Anna-Luise is the daughter of Dr. Fischer, who has become rich after inventing a perfumed toothpaste and whose dinner parties are famous (or infamous) around Geneva. After a brief courtship, the two are married.
Jun 12, 1980 · During a lunch-break Jones meets a beautiful woman thirty years younger than himself: Anna-Luise Fischer, the neglected daughter of Doctor Fischer of Geneva, who has made millions through his invention of a toothpaste called Dentophil Bouquet; Doctor Fischer has also acquired a certain notoriety because of his parties.
Jones is surprised to learn that Anna-Luise is the daughter of Dr Fischer, who has become rich after inventing a perfumed toothpaste and whose dinner parties are famous (or infamous) around Geneva. After a brief courtship, the two are married.
Aug 9, 2021 · More interesting is the opening of the show, a romantic encounter between an emotionally wounded translator named Alfred Jones (Alan Bates) and a beautiful young student, Anna-Luise Fischer...
May 1, 1980 · The essential story: our narrator, middle-aged widower Alfred Jones, meets and loves and marries Anna-Luise, the beautiful daughter of Geneva's Dr. Fischer, a notorious millionaire who gives parties to humiliate and test the infinite greed of a circle of rich, toadying acquaintances; and eventually, after pregnant Anna-Luise has died in a ...
