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Cheerfulness Breaks In
Taschenbuch von Angela Thirkell
Sprache: Englisch

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'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times

It is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: Rose Birkett, a flighty beauty with a penchant for breaking engagements and hearts, is finally getting married, and the whole village - her parents included - breathes a sigh of relief.

By autumn, however, summer weddings seem a distant memory as war reaches Barsetshire. While the younger generation throws itself into the war effort with cheerful aplomb, older residents keenly remember the last war, and are fearful.

When an entire London school of evacuees arrive, as well as a number of refugees, the village rallies round to house them. Some inhabitants, though, don't exactly welcome the newcomers with open arms.

First published in 1940, Cheerfulness Breaks In is a humorous yet poignant picture of wartime arriving in a close-knit English community.

'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times

It is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: Rose Birkett, a flighty beauty with a penchant for breaking engagements and hearts, is finally getting married, and the whole village - her parents included - breathes a sigh of relief.

By autumn, however, summer weddings seem a distant memory as war reaches Barsetshire. While the younger generation throws itself into the war effort with cheerful aplomb, older residents keenly remember the last war, and are fearful.

When an entire London school of evacuees arrive, as well as a number of refugees, the village rallies round to house them. Some inhabitants, though, don't exactly welcome the newcomers with open arms.

First published in 1940, Cheerfulness Breaks In is a humorous yet poignant picture of wartime arriving in a close-knit English community.

Über den Autor
Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 336
Reihe: Virago Modern Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780349013411
ISBN-10: 0349013411
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Thirkell, Angela
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Modern Classics
Maße: 194 x 125 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Angela Thirkell
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2020
Gewicht: 0,262 kg
preigu-id: 118289535
Über den Autor
Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 336
Reihe: Virago Modern Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780349013411
ISBN-10: 0349013411
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Thirkell, Angela
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Modern Classics
Maße: 194 x 125 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Angela Thirkell
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2020
Gewicht: 0,262 kg
preigu-id: 118289535
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