15 Top classics books like At Mrs Lippincote's by Valerie Martin, Elizabeth Taylor

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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…

"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."

-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."

-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."

-Valerie Martin, At Mrs Lippincote's

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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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • female authors
  • british literature
  • world war ii
  • marriage
  • 20th century
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"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

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2. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

By: Muriel Spark

3.65

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—i… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
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  • 20th century
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"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."

-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

"- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment …"

-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

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3. Less Than Angels

By: Barbara Pym

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It is surely appropriate that anthropologists, who spend their time studying life and behavior in v… read more

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  • classics
  • female authors
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  • 20th century
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"Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink."

-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

"What was the point of living in a suburb if one couldn’t show a healthy curiosity about one’s neighbours?"

-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

"Not that the making of tea can ever really be regarded as a petty or trivial matter and Miss Clovis did seem to have been seriously at fault."

-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

"Like so many men, he needed a woman stronger than himself, for behind the harsh cragginess of the Easter Island façade cowered the small boy, uncertain of himself."

-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

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4. The Tortoise and the Hare

By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The magnetic Evelyn Gresham, 52, is a barrister of considerable distinction. He has everything life… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • female authors
  • british literature
  • marriage
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  • fiction
  • novels
  • modern classics
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5. The Priory

By: Dorothy Whipple

4.21

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

The setting for this, the third novel by Dorothy Whipple Persephone have published, is Saunby Prior… read more

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"Love is happy only when it is confident. When it is humble, it is full of pain and misgiving; there is hardly any happiness to be had out of it at all."

-Dorothy Whipple, The Priory

"As is usual with the ignorant, long words had the fascination for both girls that obstacles on the road have for a bad driver; instead of avoiding them they ran into them."

-Dorothy Whipple, The Priory

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6. No Fond Return of Love

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Dulcie Mainwaring, the heroine of the book, is one of those excellent women who is always helping o… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
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7. Crampton Hodnet

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
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8. 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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 20th century
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9. An Unsuitable Attachment

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages,

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  • classics
  • british literature
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10. How It All Began

By: Penelope Lively

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

When Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord P… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
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11. The Sweet Dove Died

By: Barbara Pym

3.91

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A chance encounter over a Victorian flower book brings together Humphrey, an antiques dealer, his n… read more

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  • classics
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12. 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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  • classics
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  • 20th century
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  • novels
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13. Good Behaviour

By: Molly Keane , Marian Keyes

4.25

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • novels

14. 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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15. 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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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • female authors
  • british literature
  • 20th century
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  • novels
  • modern classics

16. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

By: Barbara Comyns

3.40

Format: None pages,

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17. A Few Green Leaves

By: Barbara Pym

3.76

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

In A FEW GREEN LEAVES the author combines the rural settings of her earliest novels with many of th… read more

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18. Some Tame Gazelle

By: Barbara Pym

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

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19. An Academic Question

By: Barbara Pym

3.58

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Caroline Grimstone, the bored young wife of an ambitious anthropologist, finds a cure for her tediu… read more

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  • novels

20. 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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Transform Your Habits

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Valerie Martin , Elizabeth Taylor

3.82

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The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

Muriel Spark

3.65

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Less Than Angels

Barbara Pym

3.92

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The Tortoise and the Hare

Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins

3.94

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The Vet's Daughter

Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns

3.90

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A Far Cry from Kensington

Muriel Spark

3.83

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Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins

3.94

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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey

4.00

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