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…
Want to Read $ 5.99"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
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1. 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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"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
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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"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
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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4. 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
5. 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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"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
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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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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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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Great Granny Webster
By: Honor Moore , Caroline Blackwood
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwoo… read more
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12. The Constant Nymph
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tessa is the daughter of a brilliant bohemian composer, Albert Sanger, who with his "circus" of pre… read more
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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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14. The Caravaners
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
For the Major and his wife Edelgard, the idea of a holiday touring Southern England seems perfect. … read more
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15. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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16. 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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17. The Beginning of Spring
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
In March 1913, Frank Reid's wife abruptly leaves him and Moscow for her native England. Naturally, … read more
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19. Foster
By: Claire Keegan
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more
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