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  • Mr Fortune's Maggot. Illustrated

    by Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner is a subtle and deeply reflective novel that explores faith, identity, and the complexities of cultural encounter. Centered on the gentle and earnest missionary Timothy Fortune, the story follows his journey to a remote South Pacific island, where he hopes to bring spiritual guidance to its inhabitants. At first committed to his religious mission, Mr. ... Read more

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  • Lolly Willowes

    by Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    "The story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favor of freedom and the most unexpected of alliances." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn her acclaimed debut novel, the twentieth-century English writer "moves with somber confidence into the realm of the supernatural, and her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it. This is the ... Read more

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  • The Corner That Held Them

    by Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    The author of Lolly Willowes recreates life in a convent during the era of the Black Death in this spellbinding work of medieval historical fiction.“One of the great British novels of the 20th century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty.” —Sarah Waters, New York Times–bestselling author of The Paying GuestsIn a Benedictine convent of no great note, the nuns do their chores, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lolly Willowes : or, the loving huntsman

    by Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    In "Lolly Willowes: or, the Loving Huntsman," Sylvia Townsend Warner crafts a mesmerizing tale that deftly intertwines themes of individuality, familial obligation, and the quest for autonomy. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century England, the narrative follows Laura Willowes, a middle-aged woman who defies societal norms to forge her own path in a world that stifles female agency. Warner ... Read more

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  • The Classic Collection of Sylvia Townsend Warner. Illustrated

    Lolly Willowes, Mr Fortune’s Maggot

    by Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    The Classic Collection of Sylvia Townsend Warner brings together two of the author’s most distinctive and thought-provoking novels, Lolly Willowes; or, The Loving Huntsman and Mr Fortune's Maggot, in an illustrated edition that highlights her unique literary voice. In Lolly Willowes, Warner tells the quietly rebellious story of a woman who rejects the expectations imposed upon her by family and ... Read more

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  • Lolly Willowes

    or, The Loving Huntsman

    by Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    In this delightful and witty novel, Laura Willowes rebels against pressure to be the perfect "maiden aunt." Not interested in men or the rushed life of London, Laura is forced to move there from her beloved countryside after the death of her father. Finally, she strikes out for the countryside on her own, selling her soul to an affable but rather simpleminded devil. First written in the 1920s, ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lolly Willowes

    by Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul' GuardianLolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft.'The book I'll ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Summer Will Show

    by Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper Tory fashion.Then tragedy strikes: the children die, and Sophia, in despair, finds her way to Paris, ... Read more

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  • Lolly Willowes (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Power of Witchcraft in Every Woman (Feminist Classic)

    by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Phoebe Iverleigh ...
    Lolly Willowes (1926) is a quietly subversive novel that begins as a comedy of manners and unfolds into a feminist fable of supernatural liberation. Its heroine, Laura "Lolly" Willowes, escapes the suffocating domestic expectations of her respectable family and discovers, in rural Buckinghamshire, an unexpected vocation as a witch. Warner's prose is elegant, ironic, and deceptively serene, placing ... Read more

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    The Corner That Held Them

    by Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    Narrated by Emma Gregory ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 38 min

    A unique novel about life in a fourteenth-century convent by one of England’s most original authorsSylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Lolly Willowes; or, The Loving Huntsman

    by Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    Discover a beautifully original blend of fantasy, wit, and quiet rebellion in Lolly Willowes; or, The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner. This enchanting novel follows Laura Willowes as she leaves behind the expectations of family life in search of independence and fulfillment in the English countryside. Combining subtle humor, folklore, and magical realism, this beloved classic is a ... Read more

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  • Lolly Willowes

    by Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    THE WITCHY FEMINIST CLASSIC: The “beautifully written . . . extraordinary” story of an English spinster who rejects the life society has given her—and becomes a witch instead (Helen McDonald, New York Times Book Review).“Witty, eerie, tender.” —John UpdikeIn Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster’s struggle to break away from her controlling family—a classic story that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD