A spirit rises, Warner, Sylvia Townsend

Автор: Claire Harman
Название: Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN: 0241964431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241964439
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lolly Willowes in 1926, but never became a conventional member of London literary life, pursuing instead a long writing career in her own individualistic manner. This book deals with her life and work.

Автор: Warner Sylvia Townsend
Название: Mr. Fortune
ISBN: 1590174585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590174586
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9170.00 T
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Описание: After a decade in one South Seas mission, a London bank-clerk-turned-minister sets his heart on serving a remote volcanic island. Fanua contains neither cannibals nor Christians, but its citizens, his superior warns, are like children--immoral children. Still, Mr. Timothy Fortune lights out for Fanua. Yet after three years, he has made only one convert, and his devotion to the boy may prove more sensual than sacred. Mr. Fortune's Maggot, Sylvia Townsend Warner's follow-up to Lolly Willowes, is lyrical, droll, and deeply affecting, and her missionary captivated his creator as much as he did her readers.
Long after the work's publication, Warner began the novella The Salutation. Now adrift and starving on the Brazilian pampas, Mr. Fortune is rescued by an elderly widow, who delights in having an Englishman about the house. Her heir, however, may beg to differ.
Brilliant and subversive, Mr. Fortune's Maggot and its sequel are now available in one volume. They show Sylvia Townsend Warner at the height of her powers.

Автор: Sylvia Townsend Warner Introduced by Sarah Waters
Название: Lolly Willowes
ISBN: 1844088057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844088058
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Sylvia Townsend Warner`s first novel, published in 1926, is magical and subversive, anticipating the ficton of writers like Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.

Автор: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Название: The Corner That Held Them
ISBN: 1681373874 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681373874
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors.

Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story--stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing--of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist's art.

Автор: Warner Sylvia Townsend
Название: Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman
ISBN: 1162643161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781162643168
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 35490.00 T
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Автор: Townsend Warner Sylvia
Название: Kingdoms of Elfin
ISBN: 199994481X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781999944810
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: Endorsed by Neil Gaiman, this new edition of Sylvia Townsend Warner`s final collection of short stories brings her fantasy writing to a new readership. These sixteen sly and enchanting stories of Elfindom show Warner`s mastery of realist fantasy that recalls the success of her first novel, the witchcraft classic Lolly Willowes (1926).

Автор: Lyon Lea, Lafaye Alexandria
Название: Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina
ISBN: 0062888781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062888785
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 13230.00 T
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An inspiring picture book for little ballerinas everywhere This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. It's a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children.

Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV.

Although there aren't many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books, starts teaching herself the basics of classical ballet.

Soon Sylvia learns how to fly--how to dance--and how to dare to dream.

Lyrical, easy-to-read, and affecting text paired with bright, appealing illustrations make Ready to Fly perfect for aspiring ballerinas everywhere who are ready to leap and to spread their wings.

Includes a foreword from Sylvia Townsend, a brief history of the bookmobile, an author's note, and a further reading list.

Автор: Figgis John Neville, Warner George Townsend, Frazer Norman Lewis
Название: English History Illustrated from Original Sources Volume 3
ISBN: 1355304873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781355304876
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 42850.00 T
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