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A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics 547 | Reading Level: very good
Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less. Her interest wanders to the nearby Ang ...Show more
Civil to Strangers by Barbara Pym
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, CIVIL TO STRANGERS, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a Voice', Pym's only written comment on her writing career. In CIVIL TO STRANGERS the lives of a young cou ...Show more
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKINFormidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-n ...Show more
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to young academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. Anthea's father, however ...Show more
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym; Jilly Cooper (Introduction by)
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life--a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen. Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the co ...Show more
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Less Than Angels follows the loves, works and hopes of a group of young anthropologists. Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the rec ...Show more
Mary Anne by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Don't use | Series: Virago Modern Classics
In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from her squalid surroundings in Bowling Inn Alley, she ventures first into the scurrilous world of the pamphleteers. Her personal charms are such, however, that before long ...Show more
Memento Mori: A Virago Modern Classic by Muriel Spark
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, a group of aging eccentrics is brought together by a series of uncanny events. Lettie Colston is the first to receive an anonymous phone call ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel (FTI) by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in making Philip his heir, knowing he will treasure his beautiful Cornish estate. But Philip's world is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love a ...Show more
My Turn to Make the Tea by Monica Dickens
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' Nina StibbePoppy, newly recruited cub reporter at the Downingham Post, is determined to prove to the editor that he's wrong in his belief that 'Women are a nuisance in t ...Show more
New Treasure Seekers (Bastable Family #3) by E. Nesbit
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Category: New Children's Novels | Series: Virago Modern Classics
The final instalment of the escapades of the Bastable children.Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Alice, H. O. and Noel fill their free time with entertainments that don't always turn out as they plan. But whether telling fortunes at a fete, unwittingly assisting an elopement, reforming their nasty cousin Archibald o ...Show more
No Fond Return Of Love by Barbara Pym
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY PAUL BINDING'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip LarkinDulcie Mainwaring is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Ay ...Show more