A Summer Bird-Cage
By: Margaret Drabble
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Sarah had come home from Paris to be a bridesmaid for her sister Louise. When a child, Sarah had ad…
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1. Mrs. Miniver
By: Jan Struther , Greer Garson
3.92
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
As a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie. Mrs. Miniver's adventures have charmed m… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- british literature
"It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person."-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
"It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's."-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
"Clem caught her eye across the table. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye …"-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
"Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late sum…"-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
2. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
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- british literature
"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
3. 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
- british literature
- fiction
- novels
- modern classics
4. Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
By: Barbara Comyns
3.85
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
5. Claudine at School
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the … read more
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- novels
- france
- fiction
"Les beaux yeux qui ne demandent qu’à sourire !"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Claudine at School
"Je sais très bien, depuis longtemps, que j’ai un cœur déraisonnable, mais, de le savoir, ça ne m’arrête pas du tout."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Claudine at School
"I've known perfectly well, for a long time, that I have an irrational heart. But knowing it doesn't stop me in the least."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Claudine at School
"When does one stop writing? . . . I thought in the past that the work of writing was like other tasks; the tool is laid down and one cries out in delight: ‘Finished!’ and you clap your hands, from wh…"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Claudine at School
6. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- novels
- modern classics
"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
7. The Pumpkin Eater
By: Penelope Mortimer
4.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The unnamed narrator of this story is married to her fourth and excessively well-paid husband. This… read more
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- literary fiction
- modern classics
- fiction
- british literature
8. Foreign Affairs
By: Alison Lurie
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in … read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
9. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- novels
- modern classics
"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
10. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
11. The Crowded Street
By: Winifred Holtby
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Muriel, who believes that 'men do as they like' whereas women 'wait to see what they will do', live… read more
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- literary fiction
- modern classics
- fiction
- british literature
12. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
13. A Summer Bird-Cage
By: Margaret Drabble
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Sarah had come home from Paris to be a bridesmaid for her sister Louise. When a child, Sarah had ad… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- france
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- modern classics
14. Cider With Rosie
By: Laurie Lee
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosieis a charming memoir of Laurie Lee… read more
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- british literature
15. Arlington Park
By: Rachel Cusk
4.67
Format: 121 pages,
Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place de… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
16. The Loved One
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.76
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself enter… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
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- british literature
"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Dennis hesitated with his fingers on the handle and was aware of communication with another hand beyond the panels. Thus in a hundred novels had loves stood."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"What is a "canty day", Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
17. Memento Mori
By: Muriel Spark
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on … read more
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18. Voltaire in Love
By: Nancy Mitford
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
In 1733, the lovely, intelligent, and married Marquise du Chatelet commenced her romance with one F… read more
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20. Brief Lives
By: Anita Brookner
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Brookner again shows herself to be the consummate observer of social nuance in this deeply felt chr… read more
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21. The Last Summer
By: Boris Pasternak , Борис Пастернак , George Reavey
2.91
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
Set in Russia during the winter of 1916, Serezha visits his married sister. Tired after a long jour… read more
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- modern classics
- fiction
22. 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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23. Elizabeth and Her German Garden
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"I shall not let myself be frightened away by the sarcasm of owls."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"We are none of us ever thankful enough, and yet we each get so much, so very much, more than we deserve."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
", and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet..."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
24. The Road to Lichfield
By: Penelope Lively
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodi… read more
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25. Darling
By: India Knight
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for grea… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
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26. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
27. Siblings
By: Brigitte Reimann
3.55
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us … read more
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- modern classics
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28. Where Angels Fear to Tread
By: E.M. Forster
3.60
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Chaperoned by her young friend Caroline Abbott, free-spirited, recently widowed Lilia Herriton jour… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"We were mad - drunk with rebellion."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
"In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
"Pretty things pack just the same as ugly ones."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
"Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
