Author: Mollie Panter-Downes
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781906462017
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.
Good Evening Mrs. Craven
Author: Mollie Panter-Downes
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781906462017
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781906462017
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven
Author: Mollie Panter-Downes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Originally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Originally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.
London War Notes, 1939-1945
Author: Mollie Panter-Downes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780582101463
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780582101463
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
At The Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney
Author: Mollie Panter-Downes
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
One Fine Day
Author: Mollie Panter-Downes
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 9780860685876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
It is a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separation, Laura and Stephen Marshall and their daughter Victoria are forced to manage without 'those anonymous caps and aprons who lived out of sight and pulled the strings'. Their rambling garden refuses to be tamed, the house seems perceptibly to crumble. But alone on a hillside, as evening falls, Laura comes to see what it would have meant if the war had been lost, and looks to the future with a new hope and optimism. First published in 1947, this subtle, finely wrought novel presents a memorable portrait of the aftermath of war, its effect upon a marriage, charting, too, a gradual but significant change in the nature of English middle-class life.
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 9780860685876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
It is a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separation, Laura and Stephen Marshall and their daughter Victoria are forced to manage without 'those anonymous caps and aprons who lived out of sight and pulled the strings'. Their rambling garden refuses to be tamed, the house seems perceptibly to crumble. But alone on a hillside, as evening falls, Laura comes to see what it would have meant if the war had been lost, and looks to the future with a new hope and optimism. First published in 1947, this subtle, finely wrought novel presents a memorable portrait of the aftermath of war, its effect upon a marriage, charting, too, a gradual but significant change in the nature of English middle-class life.
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."
Minnie's Room
Author: Mollie Panter-Downes
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781903155240
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Contains ten stories describing aspects of British life in the years after the war.
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781903155240
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Contains ten stories describing aspects of British life in the years after the war.
Kitchen Essays
Author: Agnes Jekyll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906462031
Category : Cookbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Witty and historically insightful essays on English cooking--first published in the Times in the early 1920s.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906462031
Category : Cookbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Witty and historically insightful essays on English cooking--first published in the Times in the early 1920s.
Miss Buncle's Book
Author: D.E. Stevenson
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402270836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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!
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402270836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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!
Tenth of December
Author: George Saunders
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408837358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408837358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.