Mr Fortune`s Maggot, 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: Summer Will Show
ISBN: 0241454840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241454848
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Описание: 'A novel of love, war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time' Guardian 'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I, taking her out to dinner'Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House, upstanding Victorian matriarch, has packed her errant husband off to Paris with his mistress Minna. But when tragedy throws her life off balance Sophia goes to seek him out, and instead finds herself intensely attracted to the charismatic, bohemian Minna, who leads her on a wild, chaotic adventure through a city in the throes of revolution. 'One of the great under-read British novelists of the twentieth century.

This is my favourite of her novels' Sarah Waters'Every page contains something brilliant, arresting or amusing, and one comes away from it staggered' Claire Harman

Автор: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Название: Lolly willowes
ISBN: 0241454883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241454886
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Описание: 'A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul' Guardian Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified.

But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft. 'The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever . .

. It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favour of freedom ... tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness' Helen Macdonald'Witty, eerie, tender ...

her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it' John Updike

Автор: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Название: Winter in the air
ISBN: 0571275303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571275304
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: Comprises eighteen short stores written between 1938 and 1955 that includes: "Winter in the Air, Hee-Haw!"; "The Children`s Grandmother"; "Evan"; "A Priestess of Delphi"; "At the Trafalgar Bakery"; "Shadwell"; "Under New Management"; "At a Monkey`s Breast"; "Absolom, My Son"; "A Kitchen Knife"; "Uncle Blair"; "Emil"; "Idenborough"; and, more.

Автор: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Название: A spirit rises
ISBN: 0571276393 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571276394
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: A Spirit Rises is one of four collections of Sylvia Townsend Warner`s short stories that Faber Finds are reissuing: Winter in the Air; The stories in A Spirit Rises, private, utterly leisured, are like charades played by angels - albeit rather sardonic ones, and in a slightly unreal hothouse.

Автор: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Название: The Corner That Held Them
ISBN: 0241454816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241454817
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran. Through a compelling chronological and thematic framework, Shams presents fresh insights into the emerging lexicon of coercion and unrest in the modern Persian canon.

Автор: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Название: After the Death of Don Juan
ISBN: 0241476070 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241476079
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: This new biography of the controversial, influential, and prize-winning American novelist Philip Roth, a writer with an international reputation for inventive, original novels from Portnoy`s Complaint to American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, is based on new access to archival documents and new interviews with Roth`s friends and associates.

Автор: Warner Sylvia Townsend
Название: Mr. Fortune
ISBN: 1590174585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590174586
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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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
Название: The Corner That Held Them
ISBN: 1844088049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844088041
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: A masterful historical novel of monastic life, set in the 14th century. Many consider this Townsend Warner`s most accomplished work.

Автор: Townsend Warner, Sylvia
Название: Selected Stories
ISBN: 1853811599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853811593
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: `One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers` - Hermione Lee

Автор: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Название: The Corner That Held Them
ISBN: 1681373874 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681373874
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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: Granne, Ailsa T.
Название: Life-writing, genre and criticism in the texts of sylvia townsend warner and valentine ackland
ISBN: 0367520729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367520724
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Sylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-century authors. This volume explores her remarkable relationship with Valentine Ackland by closely examining their letters, diaries, and poetry.