16 Top classics books like Extranjeros, bienvenidos by Barbara Pym

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Extranjeros, bienvenidos

By: Barbara Pym

3.92

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Cuando Barbara Pym murió en 1980, dejó una cantidad considerable de material inédito. Entre éste, u…

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1. Before Lunch

By: Angela Thirkell

3.58

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Middle-aged Catherine Middleton, married to an obtuse but endearing older man, is the still center … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • humor
  • fiction
"If it were in his destiny, which he felt it never would be, to love and be loved, he could imagine a way of love quite different from what he had just seen."

-Angela Thirkell, Before Lunch

"Miss Starter said that she felt herself that quite enough was done for refugees and there was a woman psychopath in Surbiton who had done wonders for a friend of hers."

-Angela Thirkell, Before Lunch

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2. A Far Cry from Kensington

By: Muriel Spark

3.83

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilari… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • humor
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"I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book."

-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

"It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed."

-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

"You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can."

-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

"Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel …"

-Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

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3. The Provincial Lady in London

By: E.M. Delafield

3.96

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

These highly acclaimed, delightful novels are written in diary form by the Provincial Lady, who liv… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • humor
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
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4. Kew Gardens y otros cuentos

By: Virginia Woolf , None , Magdalena Palmer

3.68

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Tres relatos de Virginia Woolf son los que componen este libro y que muestran lo que a ella le gust… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • british literature
"¿Quién no piensa en el pasado en un jardín con hombres y mujeres tumbados bajo los árboles? ¿Acaso estos hombres y mujeres, estos fantasmas tumbados bajo los árboles, no son nuestro pasado, todo lo q…"

-Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens y otros cuentos

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5. The Town in Bloom

By: Dodie Smith

3.58

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

This is the 1965 Atlantic Monthly Press edition. read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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6. The Wedding Group

By: Elizabeth Taylor

3.59

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cressy has grown up in a world of women, presided over by her artistic, eccentric grandfather. Rebe… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • novels

7. Under the Net

By: Iris Murdoch

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and s… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
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8. Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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9. Battles at Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #4)

By: Miss Read

4.60

Format: None pages,

Feelings are running high in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green. The rector's plan for the neglec… read more

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  • novels
  • humor
  • fiction
  • british literature

10. The Bachelors

By: Muriel Spark

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs and shopping at Fortnum's, the cozy bachelor… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
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11. News from Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #3)

By: Miss Read , John S. Goodall

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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12. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature

13. Vera

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.00

Format: 285 pages,

First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more

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14. The Country Girls Trilogy

By: Edna O'Brien

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

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15. Travels With My Aunt

By: Graham Greene

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "th… read more

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16. Look at Me

By: Anita Brookner

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and ple… read more

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17. High Rising

By: Angela Thirkell

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

In Angela Thirkell's first Barsetshire novel, she sets the plot pattern which will be played out in… read more

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18. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)

By: Anthony Powell

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels

19. To Love and Be Wise (Inspector Alan Grant, #4)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a strikingly handsome young photographer mysteriously disappears, it's up to Inspector Alan Gr… read more

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20. The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old scho… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

"Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

21. Diary of a Provincial Lady

By: E.M. Delafield

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

When Diary of a Provincial Ladywas first published in 1933, critics on both sides of the Atlantic g… read more

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22. Cluny Brown

By: Margery Sharp

2.83

Format: 288 pages,

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23. Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"What, you egg?"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done, is done"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done cannot be undone."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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24. The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

By: Paula Byrne

4.05

Format: 686 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, intimate biography of English writer Barbara Pym. She was Pym to friends. Miss Pym … read more

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  • 20th century
  • british literature
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25. Babbacombe's

By: Susan Scarlett

4.00

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

"I thought we were allowed to sit. I mean I thought it was the Shop Act or something that we had to… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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26. The Fortnight in September

By: R.C. Sherriff

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
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27. Intermnemosis

By: Celia Corral-Vázquez

4.09

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Ya no hay vuelta atrás. Han secuestrado una nave, a una doctora y al último espécimen que queda de … read more

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28. Extranjeros, bienvenidos

By: Barbara Pym

3.92

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Cuando Barbara Pym murió en 1980, dejó una cantidad considerable de material inédito. Entre éste, u… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • roman
  • classics
  • british literature
  • humor
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
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29. Anhelo de raíces

By: May Sarton

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

«En aquel primer fin de semana establecí el rito de la cena. Cuando me sentara a la mesa, tenía que… read more

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"Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change."

-May Sarton, Anhelo de raíces

"In the end I knew I would have to trust to instinct, not estimates."

-May Sarton, Anhelo de raíces

"I know that I myself have felt that prickling of the scalp that Emily Dickinson tells us is the sign of recognition before a true poem."

-May Sarton, Anhelo de raíces

"Together they breathed deeply, like people who exaggerate their soul because they have no other riches.' May Sarton, quoting Jean Dominique"

-May Sarton, Anhelo de raíces

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30. Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets

By: Louise Willder

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This is the outside story of books. From blurbs to titles, quotes to (checks jacket) cute animal de… read more

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  • humor

18 must-read fiction books like Extranjeros, bienvenidos by Barbara Pym

Transform Your Habits

Before Lunch

Angela Thirkell

3.58

Transform Your Habits

A Far Cry from Kensington

Muriel Spark

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Provincial Lady in London

E.M. Delafield

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Kew Gardens y otros cuentos

Virginia Woolf , None , Magdalena Palmer

3.68

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Nina Stibbe

3.66

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Paula Byrne

4.05

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3.13

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