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  • A Different Sound

    Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers

    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland—many being published in America for the first timeThese remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, ... Leer más

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  • They

    A Sequence of Unease

    A dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression—“queer, English, a masterpiece.” (Hilton Als)Set amid the rolling hills and the sandy shingle beaches of coastal Sussex, this disquieting novel depicts an England in which bland conformity is the terrifying order of the day. Violent gangs roam the country destroying art and culture and putalizing those who resist the ... Leer más

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  • Bekännelsen

    »En uppslukande, intelligent roman som håller sina gåtor levande ända till slutet.« The GuardianHampstead Heath, London, 1980. Elise Morceau träffar Constance Holden och blir som förtrollad. Connie är vågad och förförisk, en framgångsrik författare vars bok ska filmatiseras i Hollywood. Elise följer med Connie till Los Angeles, en stad full av grandiosa drömmar.Medan Connie stortrivs i den ... Leer más

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  • Miss Mole

    de E.H. Young ...
    Series Libro 504 - Virago Modern Classics
    'Young is a sharp and funny writer with a brilliant eye for moral fudging and verbal hypocrisy, and she has a splendid foil in Miss Mole' Sally BeaumanWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE'Who would suspect her sense of fun and irony, of a passionate love for beauty and the power to drag it from its hidden places? Who would imagine that Miss Mole had pictured herself, at different times, ... Leer más

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  • Green Money

    "Now, listen to me," said Mr. Green earnestly. "I've brought up my little girl as a girl should be brought up. I've sheltered her from the world. She's uncontaminated by the modern ideas-uncontaminated. What d'you think of that?"Young George Ferrier's frivolous jaunt in London ends with an unexpected encounter with wealthy Mr. Green, old friend of his father, who spontaneously drafts George to be ... Leer más

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  • Four Gardens

    de Margery Sharp ...
    She announced herself, rather self-consciously, as Mrs. Henry Smith, and he replied that Mrs. Cornwallis was expecting her. To Caroline, following him through a wide shabby hall, the whole episode was beginning to feel like a nightmare. She was intensely conscious of herself-of her dress, her voice, the way she placed her feet. She felt like a cook-general going to be interviewed."Mrs. Henry Smith ... Leer más

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  • Rhododendron Pie

    de Margery Sharp ...
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  • Dear Hugo

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  • The Foolish Gentlewoman

    de Margery Sharp ...
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  • Kate Hardy

    "Do you know anything about her, Richard?""Nothing except that she lives in London, is obviously well off and very impulsive. . . . She bought the house as if it were-a bun. She bought it straight off without seeing it.""She must be mad!"The arrival of novelist Kate Hardy at the lovely Dower House in Old Quinings, with her staunch ally and housekeeper Martha, has the whole village talking. But ... Leer más

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  • A House in the Country

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