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Excellent Women

Barbara Pym
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Author : Barbara Pym
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101666258

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Excellent Women by Barbara Pym Pdf

Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.

Quartet in Autumn

Barbara Pym
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Author : Barbara Pym
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447289623

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Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym Pdf

With an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning. In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem – loneliness. Lovingly and with delightful humour, Barbara Pym conducts us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements, and – perhaps most keenly felt – their worries about having somehow missed out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them. Deliciously, blackly funny and full of obstinate optimism, Quartet in Autumn shows Barbara Pym's sensitive artistry at its most sparkling. Its world is both extraordinary and familiar, revealing the eccentricities of everyday life.

Jane and Prudence

Barbara Pym
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Author : Barbara Pym
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453279618

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Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym Pdf

The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life—a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen. Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the country, is married to a vicar, has a daughter she adores, and lives a very proper life in a very proper English parish. Prudence, a year shy of thirty, lives in London, has an office job, and is self-sufficient and fiercely independent—until Jane decides her friend should be married. Jane has the perfect husband in mind for her former pupil: a widower named Fabian Driver. But there are other women vying for Fabian’s attention. And Pru is nursing her own highly inappropriate desire for her older, married, and seemingly oblivious employer, Dr. Grampian. What follows is a witty, delightful, trenchant story of manners, morals, family, and female bonding that redefines the social novel for a new generation.

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

Paula Byrne
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Author : Paula Byrne
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780008322229

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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne Pdf

‘Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’ JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021

The Sweet Dove Died

Barbara Pym
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Author : Barbara Pym
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529091885

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The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym Pdf

‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure’ Jilly Cooper Between the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking nephew James glides the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. Can she keep James in her thrall? Or will he be taken from her by a lover, like Phoebe . . . or Ned, the wicked American? ‘I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym’ Richard Osman ‘Faultless’ The Guardian ‘Her characters are all meticulously impaled on the delicate pins of a wit that is as scrupulous as it is deadly’ The Observer ‘A coldly funny book’ The Sunday Telegraph ‘Highly distinctive . . . The critics who have recently insisted on Miss Pym’s too long neglected gifts have not been wrong’ Financial Times

A Few Green Leaves

Barbara Pym
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Author : Barbara Pym
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447236887

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A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym Pdf

‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly Cooper Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognise as totally familiar. In A Few Green Leaves, her last novel, her heroine is Emma Howick, anthropologist. Through her eyes Barbara Pym examines in her own ironic and individual style the quiet revolution in English village life, combining the rural settings of her earliest novels with the themes and characters of her later works. The result is a compelling portrait of a town that seems to be forgotten by time, but which is unmistakably affected by it. Romance shares the pages with death in this engaging novel that is the culmination of Barbara Pym's acclaimed writing career. 'I could go on reading her for ever' A L Rowse, Punch 'A vivid sense of how we live now' New Statesman 'Her sense of brilliant comedy is a direct inheritance from Jane Austen' Hibernia 'A beautifully written, very delicate comedy' The Times Literary Supplement

Crampton Hodnet

Barbara Pym
Crampton Hodnet Book PDF

Author : Barbara Pym
Publisher : Epicenter Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603811774

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Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym Pdf

Miss Morrow is content in her position as spinster companion to Miss Doggett, even if her employer and the woman s social circle regard her as a piece of furniture. Stephen Latimer, the new cleric and Miss Doggett s dashing new tenant, upsets the balance for Miss Morrow by proposing the long discounted possibility of marriage.

Less Than Angels

Barbara Pym
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Author : Barbara Pym
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453279649

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Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym Pdf

A tale of a woman’s romantic entanglements with two anthropologists—and the odd mating habits of humans—from the author of Jane and Prudence. Catherine Oliphant writes for women’s magazines and lives comfortably with anthropologist Tom Mallow—although she’s starting to wonder if they’ll ever get married. Then Tom drops his bombshell: He’s leaving her for a nineteen-year-old student. Though stunned by Tom’s betrayal, Catherine quickly becomes fascinated by another anthropologist, Alaric Lydgate, a reclusive eccentric recently returned from Africa. As Catherine starts to weigh her options, she must figure out who she is and what she really wants. With a lively cast of characters and a witty look at the insular world of academia, this novel from the much-loved author of Excellent Women and other modern classics is filled with poignant, playful observations about the traits that separate us from our anthropological forebears—far fewer than we may imagine.

Some Tame Gazelle

Barbara Pym
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Author : Barbara Pym
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748131525

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Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym Pdf

INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman 'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' Anne Tyler Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, likes nothing better than to make a fuss of new curates, secure in the knowledge that Count Ricardo Bianco will propose to her yet again this year. Belinda, meanwhile, has harboured sober feelings of devotion towards Archdeacon Hoccleve for thirty years. Then into their quiet, comfortable lives comes a famous librarian, Nathaniel Mold, and a bishop from Africa, Theodore Grote - who each takes to calling on the sisters for rather more unsettling reasons. 'Some Tame Gazelle is my personal favourite for its sparkling high comedy and its treasury of characters . . . [Pym] makes me smile, laugh out loud, consider my own foibles and fantasies, and, above all, suffer real regret when I reach the final page. Of how many authors can you honestly say that?' MAVIS CHEEK

A Lot to Ask

Hazel Holt
A Lot to Ask Book PDF

Author : Hazel Holt
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447265429

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A Lot to Ask by Hazel Holt Pdf

Barbara Pym is a writer of whom it may be truly said that her life is reflected in her work. This definitive biography puts Barbara in her setting and relates her life to the age and the world in which she lived. Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished material and with the help of Barbara’s sister Hilary and her friends (including Philip Larkin, Robert Liddell, Henry Harvey and Robert Smith, Hazel Holt, her friend and literary executor, has drawn a perceptive portrait of Barbara Pym, the woman as well as the novelist. From the heady atmosphere of pre-war Oxford where she embarked upon a series of highly romantic love affairs, through her wartime service in the WRNS, to early success as a published writer, we come to know a person whose humour and sharp observation were uniquely combined with a compassionate acceptance of human nature – qualities that made her such an outstanding novelist. Hazel Holt also describes the dark period from 1963, when Barbara Pym’s novels were rejected as unpublishable, through the wilderness years until 1977 when her literary reputation was triumphantly re-established by Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil. Barbara Pym emerges from these pages as an entertaining companion with an insatiable curiosity and an unquenchable delight in the eccentricities of her fellows. Readers already acquainted with her novels will find great pleasure in this biography and those who are not will be irresistibly drawn towards the world of Barbara Pym.

The Making of Barbara Pym

Emily Stockard
The Making of Barbara Pym Book PDF

Author : Emily Stockard
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030838683

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The Making of Barbara Pym by Emily Stockard Pdf

The Making of Barbara Pym offers new insights into Pym’s formative years as a writer, during which she honed a complex view of the necessity of change on individual and cultural levels. Supported by newly published archival material, this comprehensive study of Pym’s early work explores her personal and fictional pre-war and wartime writing, including unpublished and posthumously published works, before looking closely at Some Tame Gazelle and Excellent Women, published during Britain’s post-war austerity period. Of central importance is a new recognition of Pym’s use of social roles, particularly those of women, as proper avenues for change. The book traces how Pym came to devise characters whose individual development can be seen as analogous to or representative of larger cultural movements. Pym uses the spinster figure to embody the forward-looking cultural perspectives that she endorsed and then, finally, in Jane and Prudence, to figure the end of Britain’s austerity period.

The Barbara Pym Cookbook

Hilary Pym,Honor Wyatt
The Barbara Pym Cookbook Book PDF

Author : Hilary Pym,Honor Wyatt
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781453279656

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The Barbara Pym Cookbook by Hilary Pym,Honor Wyatt Pdf

DIVBarbara Pym’s sister Hilary teams with cookbook author Honor Wyatt to bring together this mouthwatering collection of family recipes, memories, and anecdotes drawn from Pym’s diaries and letters, as well her most acclaimed novels /divDIV Straight from the kitchen of Barbara Pym, this winning cookbook delivers a delectable treat for readers who like their meals served with a generous helping of literary aplomb. Sharing favorite family recipes that Pym incorporated into her novels, The Barbara Pym Cookbook reveals how the author’s life intersected with those of her memorable characters./divDIV /divDIVInside you’ll find British classics such as steak and kidney pie, plum cake, sausage rolls, and toad-in-the-hole—dishes that Pym’s characters would often prepare for each other. Other treats, such as moussaka and risotto, reflect Pym’s fascination with Greece and Italy. Throughout, the recipes are interwoven with references to Pym’s novels; Dulcie’s musings on “love apples” from No Fond Return of Love accompany directions for tomatoes à la Provençale, for instance. There are glimpses of Pym’s personal life, too, such as her description of kipper pâté for lunch with Philip Larkin. The Barbara Pym Cookbook is a must-have for both budding cooks and Pym aficionados./div

An Unsuitable Attachment

Barbara Pym
An Unsuitable Attachment Book PDF

Author : Barbara Pym
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0330326465

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An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym Pdf

Set in St Basil's, a North London parish, Barbara Pym's novel is full of high comedy. Her depiction of characters begins with Mark the vicar, and his wife Sophia who is quite obsessed with cats, as is Daisy Pettigrew, the vet's sister.

An Unsuitable Attachment

Barbara Pym
An Unsuitable Attachment Book PDF

Author : Barbara Pym
Publisher : Pan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 152909190X

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An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym Pdf

Owing a debt to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Barbara Pym's An Unsuitable Attachment is an elegant and witty comedy of manners from an acclaimed author who Philip Larkin called 'the most underrated novelist of the century'. 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' - Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murder Club 'The day comes in the life of every single man living alone when he must give a dinner party.' The parish of St Basil, on the fringes of North Kensington, is all of a flutter due to the arrival of Rupert Stonebird, a most eligible bachelor, in the neighbourhood. The local matchmakers are sure he will make a suitable husband for the vicar's wife's sister, Penny, or perhaps for local librarian Ianthe Broome? But Ianthe is in danger of forming a most unsuitable attachment to her new library assistant, John, a man of questionable background with not a penny to his name . . . 'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure' - Jilly Cooper, author of The Rutshire Chronicles

A Very Private Eye

Barbara Pym
A Very Private Eye Book PDF

Author : Barbara Pym
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447265405

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A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym Pdf

‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly Cooper ‘Could one write a book based on one’s diaries over thirty years? I certainly have enough material,’ wrote Barbara Pym. This book, selected from the diaries, notebooks and letters of this much loved novelist to form a continuous narrative, is indeed a unique autobiography, providing a privileged insight into a writer’s mind. Philip Larkin wrote that Barbara Pym had ‘a unique eye and ear for the small poignancies of everyday life’. Her autobiography amply demonstrates this, as it traces her life from exuberant times at Oxford in the thirties, through the war when, scarred by an unhappy love affair, she joined the WRNS, to the published novelist of the fifties. It also deals with the long period when her novels were out of fashion and no one would publish them, her rediscovering in 1977, and the triumphant success of her last few years. It is now possible to describe a place, situation or person as ‘very Barbara Pym’. A Very Private Eye, at once funny and moving, shows the variety and depth of her own story.