Some Tame Gazelle (Pocket)
avPym, Barbara
ISBN: 9781844085798 - UTGIVEN: 2009-08-06A charming and funny tale of parish life by an author whose many fans include Philip Larkin, Alexander McCall Smith and Jilly Cooper.[...]
A Glass of Blessings (Pocket)
avPym, Barbara
ISBN: 9781844085804 - UTGIVEN: 2009-12-03Barbara Pym was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1978 and is the quintessential VMC author. Following on from the huge success of JANE AND PRUDENCE, this novel was loved by Philip Larkin who declared it 'the subtlest of her books'.[...]
Less Than Angels (Pocket)
avPym, Barbara
ISBN: 9781844085811 - UTGIVEN: 2010-04-01'A modern Jane Austen' Alexander McCall Smith
Excellent Women (Häftad)
avBarbara Pym, A. N. Wilson
ISBN: 9780143104872 - UTGIVEN: 200701
"Excellent Women" is one of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those "excellent women," the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embr[...]
Excellent Women (Häftad)
avBarbara Pym
ISBN: 9780452267305 - UTGIVEN: 1988-05"Excellent Women" is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years, ' helped launch the redisc[...]
Quartet in Autumn (Häftad)
avBarbara Pym
ISBN: 9780452269347 - UTGIVEN: 1992-07Shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem - loneliness. Lovingly, poignantly, satirically and with much humour, [...]
The Sweet Dove Died (Häftad)
avBarbara Pym
ISBN: 9781447238447 - UTGIVEN: 2013-03Between the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking nephew James glides the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. Can she keep James in her thrall? Or will he be taken from her by a lover, like Phoebe ...or Ned, the wicked American? 'A highly distinctive and - ultimat[...]
A Very Private Eye (Häftad)
avBarbara Pym
ISBN: 9781447265399 - UTGIVEN: 2013-12'Could one write a book based on one's diaries over thirty years? I certainly have enough material,' wrote Barbara Pym. This book, selected from the diaries, notebooks and letters of this much loved novelist to form a continuous narrative, is indeed a unique autobiography, providing a privileged ins[...]
Jane and Prudence (Häftad)
avBarbara Pym
ISBN: 9781559212267 - UTGIVEN: 1999-09Middle-aged Jane is the well-intentioned but far from perfect clergyman's wife and mother. Prudence, who at 29 is teetering at the edge of spinsterhood, is an attractive, educated working girl. The two best friends share memories of their carefree days at Oxford, leisurely lunches, and gossip, but t[...]
Civil to Strangers and Other Writings (Häftad)
avBarbara Pym
ISBN: 9781603811804 - UTGIVEN: 2013-05
Jane and Prudence (Storpocket)
avBarbara Pym
ISBN: 9781844084494 - UTGIVEN: 200712Over the years, as Barbara Pym replaced Nancy Mitford, Georgette Heyer, even Jane Austen, as my most loved author, I devoured all her books, but JANE AND PRUDENCE remains my favourite. Even an umpteenth reading this weekend was punctuated by gasps of joy, laughter and wonder that this lovely book sh[...]
No Fond Return of Love (Storpocket)
avBarbara Pym
ISBN: 9781844084500 - UTGIVEN: 200901Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perha[...]
Excellent Women (Storpocket)
avBarbara Pym
ISBN: 9781844084517 - UTGIVEN: 200909Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. As such, she often gets herself embroiled [...]
Excellent Women (Inbunden)
avBarbara Pym
ISBN: 9781844085262 - UTGIVEN: 2008-05Cover design by Orla Kiely Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. As such, though[...]
Crampton Hodnet (Storpocket)
avBarbara Pym
ISBN: 9781844087211 - UTGIVEN: 201208Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to young academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. Anthea's father, how[...]
An Academic Question (Storpocket)
avBarbara Pym
ISBN: 9781844087235 - UTGIVEN: 201205A delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym territory. In a provincial university town Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers as a reader to a blind, este[...]
Felicity and Barbara Pym (häftad)
ISBN: 9781907090110 - UTGIVEN: 2009-08'Felicity and Barbara Pym' focuses on the life of 20th-century novelist Barbara Pym who, despite early success and continuing popularity, was unable to find a publisher for her richly comic novels - until Philip Larkin nominated her as 'the most underrated writer of the century'. A beautifully obser[...]
