The Harsh Voice
By: Rebecca West
3.89
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
In these four short novels set in America, England and Paris, Rebecca West explores the lives and r…
Want to Read"[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."-Rebecca West, The Harsh Voice
"[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."-Rebecca West, The Harsh Voice
"[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."-Rebecca West, The Harsh Voice
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1. At Mrs Lippincote's
By: Valerie Martin , Elizabeth Taylor
3.82
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
- british literature
"Oliver Davenant did not merely read books. He snuffed them up, took breaths of them into his lungs, filled his eyes with the sight of the print and his head with the sound of words."-Valerie Martin, At Mrs Lippincote's
"OLIVER DAVENANT did not merely read books. He snuffed them up, took breaths of them into his lungs, filled his eyes with the sight of the print and his head with the sound of words. Some emanation fr…"-Valerie Martin, At Mrs Lippincote's
2. Mrs. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #1)
By: Evan S. Connell
4.06
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0865470561 / 9780865470569 can be found here The wife of a su… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
"Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it."-Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #1)
"Passava molto tempo a fissare il vuoto, oppressa da un senso di attesa. Ma attesa di che cosa? Non lo sapeva."-Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #1)
"Trenta, trentacinque, quaranta: gli anni erano sempre passati a farle visita come zie criticone, e sempre erano scomparsi senza lasciare traccia, senza fare rumore. E adesso ne era arrivato un altro."-Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #1)
"At the Louvre she immediately recognized the Venus de Milo, even though they happened to approach from the rear, and of course the Mona Lisa was unmistakable; it looked exactly like the reproductions."-Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #1)
3. Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
- british literature
4. Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
From Simon & Schuster, Elizabeth Jane Howard's Casting Off is the next chapter in the Cazalet Chron… read more
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- fiction
- 20th century
- british literature
"It is extraordinarily difficult not to hate someone when one feels powerless with them."-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"Ich meine, wenn uns etwas nicht gelingt, bleibt uns noch genügend Zeit, es noch mal zu versuchen."-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"Wenn du das Schreiben zu deinem Beruf machen willst, dann musst du anfangen, dich auf dein eigenes Urteil zu verlassen. Du darfst dir ruhig anhören, was andere davon halten, aber letztlich ist richti…"-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the i…"-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
5. Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles, #2)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
The wonderful sequel to The Light Years returns readers to Britain in September, 1939, as war break… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
6. The Home-Maker
By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Although this novel first appeared in 1924, it deals in an amazingly contemporary manner with the p… read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. A View of the Harbour
By: Sarah Waters , Elizabeth Taylor
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne Tyler In the … read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
- british literature
8. A Glass of Blessings
By: Barbara Pym
4.43
Format: 320 pages,
Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thi… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
- british literature
9. The Garden Party and Other Stories
By: Katherine Mansfield , Lorna Sage
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Written during the final stages of her illness, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" is full of a s… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
- short stories
10. Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.85
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"The appetites of the body were private battles."-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
"She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence."-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
"It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men"-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
"Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else."-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
11. The Echoing Grove
By: Rosamond Lehmann
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Two sisters: Madeleine and Dinah. One husband: Rickie Masters. For many years now, Dinah, exotic an… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
12. In a Summer Season
By: Elizabeth Taylor
3.00
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
In a Summer Seasonis one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful cli… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
13. A House in the Country
By: Jocelyn Playfair , Ruth Gorb
4.11
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The great interest of Jocelyn Playfair's book for modern readers is its complete authenticity. Set … read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
14. Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles #3)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
In the third novel of England's Cazalet family, Elizabeth Howard moves through the dark, middle day… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
15. All Change (Cazalet Chronicles #5)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is the 1950s and as the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, the Duchy, passes away, she takes with her … read more
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- fiction
- british literature
16. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
17. Fingersmith
By: Sarah Waters
4.02
Format: 592 pages, ebook
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raise… read more
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- fiction
"You pearl!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"PIGEON MY ARSE!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"It's a curious, wanting thing."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
18. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
- british literature
19. August Folly
By: Angela Thirkell
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
The village of Worsted is staging Hippolytus under the aegis of the indefatigable Mrs. Palmer. Give… read more
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20. Revival
By: Stephen King
3.80
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
A dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side o… read more
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- fiction
"There’s no tonic like an old friend."-Stephen King, Revival
"Frightened people live in their own special hell."-Stephen King, Revival
"When you’re travelling far, it’s best to travel light."-Stephen King, Revival
"Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places."-Stephen King, Revival
21. My Autobiography
By: Charlie Chaplin
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Born into a theatrical family, Charlie Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother, unable to b… read more
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22. A Place of Greater Safety
By: Hilary Mantel
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danto… read more
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23. The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.82
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a…"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
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26. The House of Mirth
By: Edith Wharton , Nina Bawden
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, p… read more
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27. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- british literature
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
28. Tomb of Sand
By: Geetanjali Shree
3.70
Format: 739 pages, Paperback
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more
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- fiction
"Anything worth doing transcends borders."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
29. Lily
By: Rose Tremain
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's … read more
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- fiction
- british literature
30. The Harsh Voice
By: Rebecca West
3.89
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
In these four short novels set in America, England and Paris, Rebecca West explores the lives and r… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- short stories
- fiction
- 20th century
"[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."-Rebecca West, The Harsh Voice
