Barbara Pym: Crampton Hodnet | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780349016139 | Crampton Hodnet | Barbara Pym | Taschenbuch | Virago Modern Classics

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INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES

'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPER

'Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLER

Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. However, Anthea's father, an Oxford don, is carrying on in the most unseemly fashion with a student - they have been spotted together at the British museum! But the only liaison Miss Doggett isn't aware of is taking place under her very own roof: the lodger has proposed to her paid companion Miss Morrow. She wouldn't approve of that at all.

'Brilliant, hilarious and so very, very English' DAILY MAIL

'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKIN

Über den Autor

Barbara Pym (1913-1980) was born in Oswestry, Shropshire. She was educated at Huyton College, Liverpool, and St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she gained an Honours Degree in English Language and Literature. From 1958-1974, she worked as an editorial secretary at the International African Institute. Her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle, was published in 1950, and was followed by Excellent Women (1952), Jane and Prudence (1953), Less than Angels (1955), A Glass of Blessings (1958) and No Fond Return of Love (1961). During the sixties and early seventies her writing suffered a partial eclipse and, discouraged, she concentrated on her work for the Institute, from which she retired in 1974 to live in Oxfordshire. A renaissance in her fortunes came in 1977, when both Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil chose her as one of the most underrated novelists of the century. With astonishing speed, she emerged, after sixteen years of obscurity, to almost instant fame and recognition. Quartet in Autumn was published in 1977 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Sweet Dove Died followed in 1978, and A Few Green Leaves was published posthumously. Barbara Pym died in January 1980.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Virago Modern Classics
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780349016139
ISBN-10:	0349016135
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	853907
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Pym, Barbara
Hersteller:	Little, Brown Book Group Virago Modern Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	196 x 126 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Barbara Pym
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.06.2022
Gewicht:	0,23 kg