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London War Notes

av Mollie Panter-Downes, David Kynaston

Häftad, Engelska, 2015-04-23

289

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Despised and Rejected

av Rose Allatini

Häftad, Engelska, 2018-04-19

289

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

av Winifred Watson

Häftad, Engelska, 2000-11-01

289

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A delightful 1938 novel about a governess and the night-club singer who employs her. Preface by Henrietta Twycross-Martin.

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An Interrupted Life

av Etty Hillesum

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-06-01

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278

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Etty Hillesum died in Auschwitz; from 1941-3 she wrote diaries and letters which are among the great documents of our time. Preface by Eva Hoffman.

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Dimanche and Other Stories

av Irene Nemirovsky

Häftad, Engelska, 2010-04-22

289

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The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories

Häftad, Engelska, 2019-04-25

289

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A Writer's Diary

av Virginia Woolf

Häftad, Engelska, 2012-11-01

278

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Good Evening, Mrs Craven

av Mollie Panter-Downes

Häftad, Engelska, 2008-04-01

239

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A collection of short stories from the 20th century writer, all written during the WWII, and originally published in "The New Yorker". Painter-Downes explores every aspect of English domestic life at the time, including separation, fear,...

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The Runaway

av Elizabeth Anna Hart

Häftad, Engelska, 2002-11-01

269

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Specialorder (osäker tillgång). Skickas från oss inom 11-20 vardagar.

This novel for grown-up children and childish grown-ups was first published in 1872 and is evocative and surprisingly modern.

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A Very Great Profession

av Nicola Beauman

Häftad, Engelska, 2008-04-01

289

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'This most welcome reissue must be one of the most compelling and perceptive books of informal literary criticism ever produced,' wrote the critic Elizabeth Young when "A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39", first published...

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William

av Cicely Hamilton

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-03-01

293

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A 1919 novel about the harrowing effect of the First World War on William, a socialist clerk, and Griselda, a suffragette. Preface by Nicola Beauman.

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Mariana

av Monica Dickens

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-03-01

293

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Published in 1940, this famous author's first novel is a delightful description of a young girl's life in the 1930s. Preface by Harriet Lane.

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Someone at a Distance

av Dorothy Whipple, Nina Bawden

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-03-01

289

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'A very good novel indeed' (Spectator), first published in 1953, about an Englishman's tragic destruction of his previously happy marriage. Preface by Nina Bawden.

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Fidelity

av Susan Glaspell

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-06-01

293

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This 1915 novel by a Pulitzer prize-winning author describes a girl in Iowa running off with a married man and the effect on those around her. Preface by Laura Godwin.

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The Victorian Chaise-Longue

av Marghanita Laski

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-06-01

289

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A novella about a 1950s woman who lies down on a chaise-longue and wakes up frozen in another's body eighty years before. Preface by P.D. James.

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The Home-Maker

av Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Karen Knox

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-09-01

293

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Carol Shields has called this 'a remarkable and brave 1924 novel about being a house husband.' Preface by Karen Knox.

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Good Evening, Mrs.Craven

av Mollie Panter-Downes

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-09-01

293

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Short stories first published in the New Yorker during the Second World War. Preface by Gregory LeStage.

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Few Eggs and No Oranges

av Vere Hodgson

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-09-01

262

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A 600 page diary kept from 194-45 in Notting Hill Gate, full of observation and humour. Preface by Jenny Hartley.

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Julian Grenfell

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-11-01

262

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A portrait of the First World War poet, killed in 1915, and of his mother Ettie Desborough, by one of our foremost writers.

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Good Things in England

av Florence White

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-11-01

262

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The author published this collection of English recipes in 1932 and inspired generations of cooks, including Elizabeth David.

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Consequences

av E M Delafield

Häftad, Engelska, 2000-03-01

289

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A 1919 novel about a girl who enters a convent because she fails to catch a husband, by the author The Diary of a Provincial Lady. Preface by Nicola Beauman.

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Farewell Leicester Square

av Betty Miller

Häftad, Engelska, 2000-03-01

293

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A 1935 novel by Jonathan Miller's mother about a young film-director and his encounters with anti-Semitism. Preface by Jane Miller.

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Tell it to a Stranger

av Elizabeth Berridge

Häftad, Engelska, 2000-03-01

293

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1947 short stories described by AN Wilson as 'beautifully crafted', which have been in the Evening Standard besteller list twice. Preface by A.N. Wilson.

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Every eye

Häftad, Engelska, 2000-02-01

276

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A 1956 novel about a girl travelling to Spain and looking back at her life, by a writer praised by Dame Muriel Spark. Preface by Neville Braybrooke.

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They Knew Mr. Knight

av Dorothy Whipple

Häftad, Engelska, 2000-09-01

293

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A long, very readable 1934 bestseller, filmed in 1943, about a family man who is led to commit fraud. Preface by Terence Handley.

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A Woman's Place, 1910-1975

av Ruth Adam

Häftad, Engelska, 2000-09-01

247

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A history of women's lives in the twentieth century, very readably written by a novelist. Preface by Yvonne Roberts.

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Consider the Years

av Virginia Graham

Häftad, Engelska, 2000-11-01

276

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Second World War poems by Joyce Grenfell's best friend and collaborator. Preface by Anne Harvey.

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Reuben Sachs

av Amy Levy

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-03-01

293

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A short, fierce satire on the Jewish community in London, by a friend of Oscar Wilde's who died young. Preface by Julia Neuberger.

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Family Roundabout

av Richmal Crompton

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-03-01

289

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The author of the William books wrote many adult novels, including this one about two families during the inter-war years. Preface by Juliet Aykroyd.

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The Making of a Marchioness

av Frances Hodgson Burnett

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-11-01

276

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A 1901 novel for adults about a young woman who married a Marchioness and the melodrama that follows. Preface by Gretchen Gerzina.

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