They Were Sisters (Persephone Classic)

They Were Sisters (Persephone Classic) PDF Author: DOROTHY. WHIPPLE
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ISBN: 9781906462567
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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They Were Sisters (Persephone Classic)

They Were Sisters (Persephone Classic) PDF Author: DOROTHY. WHIPPLE
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ISBN: 9781906462567
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Languages : en
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Someone at a Distance

Someone at a Distance PDF Author: Dorothy Whipple
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781906462000
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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J. B. Priestly describes Dorothy Whipple as a "Jane Austen of the Twentieth Century."

The Home-maker

The Home-maker PDF Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Category : Accident victims
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Novel describes the problems of a family in which husband and wife are oppressed and frustrated by the roles that they are expected to play. Evangeline Knapp is the ideal housekeeper, while her husband, Lester is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed; Lester is confined to home in a wheelchair and his wife must work to support the family. The changes that take place between husband and wife and between parents and children are handled in a contemporary manner.

The Priory

The Priory PDF Author: Dorothy Whipple
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Earth and High Heaven

Earth and High Heaven PDF Author: Gwethalyn Graham
Publisher: Cormorant Books
ISBN: 1770860312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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When Erika Drake, of the Westmount Drakes, met and fell in love with Marc Reiser, a Jew from northern Ontario, their respective worlds were turned upside down. Set against the backdrop of the first three years of the Second World War, Earth and High Heaven captured the hearts and minds of its generation and helped to shape the more diverse and inclusive culture we have today. Published in 1944, this classic novel was very timely; it spoke of the prejudices of its time, when Gentiles and Jews did not mix in society. Earth and High Heaven was the most successful novel of its time, winning many awards and prizes, including the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1945 (an award founded to reward books that exposed racism or explored the richness of human diversity). It was translated into eighteen languages and the film rights were purchased by Samuel Goldwyn for a remarkable $100,000. Earth and High Heaven was the first Canadian novel to top the New York Times bestseller list for the better part of a year.

Miss Buncle's Book

Miss Buncle's Book PDF Author: D.E. Stevenson
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402270836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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From beloved English author D.E. Stevenson who has sold more than 7 million books worldwide! In the first heartwarming book of this classic series, D.E. Stevenson proves that one little book can be the source of all kinds of trouble when residents of a small English village start to see themselves through someone else's eyes. Barbara Buncle is in a bind. Times are harsh, and Barbara's bank account has seen better days. Maybe she could sell a novel ... if she knew any stories. Stumped for ideas, Barbara draws inspiration from her fellow residents of Silverstream, the little English village she knows inside and out. To her surprise, the novel is a smash. It's a good thing she wrote under a pseudonym, because the folks of Silverstream are in an uproar. But what really turns Miss Buncle's world around is this: what happens to the characters in her book starts happening to their real-life counterparts. Does life really imitate art, and can she harness that power for good? With the wit and charm of a Jane Austen novel and the gossipy, small-town delight of the Flavia de Luce series, Miss Buncle's Book is D.E. Stevenson at her best!

They Knew Mr. Knight

They Knew Mr. Knight PDF Author: Dorothy Whipple
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ISBN: 9781903155080
Category : Avarice
Languages : en
Pages : 483

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A Book Society Choice, shortlisted for the Femina-Vie Heureuse Prize, the second Dorothy Whipple novel we publish is also wonderfully well-written in a clear and straightforward style; yet 'this real treat' ("Sunday Telegraph") is far more subtle than it at first appears. The Blakes are an ordinary family: Celia looks after the house and Thomas works at the family engineering business in Leicester. The book begins when he meets Mr Knight, a financier as crooked as any on the front pages of our newspapers nowadays; and tracks his and his family's swift climb and fall.Part of the cause of the ensuing tragedy is Celia's innocence - blinkered by domesticity, she and her children are the 'victim of the turbulence of the outside world' (Postscript); but finally, through 'quiet tenacity and the refusal to let go of certain precious things, goodness does win out' (Afterword). And the "TLS" wrote: 'The portraits in the book are fired by Mrs Whipple's article of faith - the supreme importance of people.'

Young Anne

Young Anne PDF Author: Dorothy Whipple
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ISBN: 9781910263174
Category : Bildungsromans
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Young Anne by Dorothy Whipple is a coming of age novel first published in 1927.

Princes in the Land

Princes in the Land PDF Author: Joanna Cannan
Publisher: Persephone Books
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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'Princes in the Land' is about a woman bringing up a family who is left at the end, when the children are on the verge of adulthood, asking herself not only what it was all for but what was her own life for? Yet the questions are asked subtly and readably.

The Godwits Fly

The Godwits Fly PDF Author: Robin Hyde
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Category : New Zealand fiction
Languages : ja
Pages : 0

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