Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910263228
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910263228
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910263228
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Dimanche and Other Stories
Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307739317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307739317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.
Tell it to a Stranger
Author: Elizabeth Berridge
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781903155042
Category : Nineteen forties
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A collection of short stories by Elizabeth Berridge.
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781903155042
Category : Nineteen forties
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A collection of short stories by Elizabeth Berridge.
Someone at a Distance
Author: Dorothy Whipple
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781906462000
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
J. B. Priestly describes Dorothy Whipple as a "Jane Austen of the Twentieth Century."
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781906462000
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
J. B. Priestly describes Dorothy Whipple as a "Jane Austen of the Twentieth Century."
The Journey Home and Other Stories
Author: Malachi Whitaker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910263143
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910263143
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Montana Stories
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155158
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Contains all the short stories written during the last year of Katherine Mansfield's life at Montana, with a new and lengthy publisher's note.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155158
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Contains all the short stories written during the last year of Katherine Mansfield's life at Montana, with a new and lengthy publisher's note.
The Closed Doors and Other Stories
Author: Dorothy Whipple
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155646
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Dorothy Whipple's key theme is `Live and Let Live'. And what she describes throughout her short stories are people, and particularly parents, who defy this maxim. For this reason her work is timeless, like all great writing. It is irrelevant that Dorothy Whipple's novels were set in an era when middle-class women expected to have a maid; when fish knives were used for eating fish; when children did what they were told. The moral universe she creates has not changed: there are bullies in every part of society; people try their best but often fail; they would like to be unselfish but sometimes are greedy. Like George Eliot, like Mrs Gaskell, like EM Forster, Dorothy Whipple describes men and women in their social milieu, which in her case is the inter-war period, and shows them being all- too human. But her books are not nostalgia reads either, any more than reading George Eliot or Forster is a nostalgia read, nor are they old-fashioned or simplistic. Her prose, it is true, is pure, uncluttered, straightforward, pared down to the bone and never labours the point; her subtlety is the reason why so many people - generally those who have not read her - overlook her excellence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155646
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Dorothy Whipple's key theme is `Live and Let Live'. And what she describes throughout her short stories are people, and particularly parents, who defy this maxim. For this reason her work is timeless, like all great writing. It is irrelevant that Dorothy Whipple's novels were set in an era when middle-class women expected to have a maid; when fish knives were used for eating fish; when children did what they were told. The moral universe she creates has not changed: there are bullies in every part of society; people try their best but often fail; they would like to be unselfish but sometimes are greedy. Like George Eliot, like Mrs Gaskell, like EM Forster, Dorothy Whipple describes men and women in their social milieu, which in her case is the inter-war period, and shows them being all- too human. But her books are not nostalgia reads either, any more than reading George Eliot or Forster is a nostalgia read, nor are they old-fashioned or simplistic. Her prose, it is true, is pure, uncluttered, straightforward, pared down to the bone and never labours the point; her subtlety is the reason why so many people - generally those who have not read her - overlook her excellence.
Greenery Street
Author: Denis George Mackail
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155257
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A story set in Walpole Street London where a newly-wed couple set up residence. In the novel Ian and Felicity struggle with their neighbours (who borrow without asking, and fail to return, first a step-ladder then a fish-kettle and finally fruit knives) and negotiate 'the chasm which separates the sexes'.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155257
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A story set in Walpole Street London where a newly-wed couple set up residence. In the novel Ian and Felicity struggle with their neighbours (who borrow without asking, and fail to return, first a step-ladder then a fish-kettle and finally fruit knives) and negotiate 'the chasm which separates the sexes'.
The Far Cry
Author: Emma Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
English girl's father takes her to India where she lives with her half-sister on a tea plantation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
English girl's father takes her to India where she lives with her half-sister on a tea plantation.
The Fortnight in September
Author: Robert Cedric Sherriff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description