Letters Of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Author : S Warner
Publisher : Random House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781448189960

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Letters Of Sylvia Townsend Warner by S Warner Pdf

Very early in her career Sylvia Townsend Warner won recognition of a discerning group of writers and readers on both sides of rare imagination and originality increased with each new publication. In addition to publishing some twenty books she wrote thousands of letters, mainly to close friends and acquaintances, and these quite naturally provide a record of almost fifty years of the writer’s life. As the editor of the selection says, she had a connoisseur’s eye for the bogus and a hatred for assumptions of privilege – her heart was with the hunted, always, and her deep understanding of human behaviour makes the whole a remarkably compassionate volume. Her interests are wide-ranging, and we read of the pleasures of travel, Proust’s shortcomings as a literary critic, current politics, Rupert Brooke at the Café Royal, an eccentric moorhen, the Spanish Civil War. Above all, apart from their intrinsic interest and literary quality, Miss Warner’s letters reveal the special brand of wit and humour that pervades every word she writes.

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781582432472

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The Element of Lavishness by William Maxwell Pdf

An instant classic in the literature of friendship: the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her editor . . . pleasure and delight. In July 1938, William Maxwell, then twenty-nine years old and the acting poetry editor of The New Yorker, wrote to Sylvia Townsend Warner inviting her to send him verse. Miss Warner, forty-four and famous for her novel Lolly Willowes, had recently begun writing stories for the magazine, antic, inimitable sketches of English life that Maxwell adored. The poems were sent, and a remarkable friendship was begun.

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner,Valentine Ackland
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015045658484

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I'll Stand by You by Sylvia Townsend Warner,Valentine Ackland Pdf

A collection of letters that gives an account of the love between the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland, which lasted as a marriage for over 30 years. It also covers their involvement in the Spanish Civil War, in Communism and in World War II.

Author : Wayne Jordan
Publisher : Kimani Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373862993

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I'll Stand by You by Wayne Jordan Pdf

Will he be her happily ever after? On leave from her job as a firefighter, Eboni Wynter is on a quest to reunite with her three long-lost sisters. She isn't looking for romance…until she meets her off-the-charts-sexy neighbor. A major player on the Manhattan singles scene, real estate mogul Darren Grayson arouses a deep passion in Eboni. Darren has never met anyone quite like Eboni. He'll do whatever it takes to win her heart…if she'll let him. But sooner or later, Eboni's bound to discover the truth about Darren's past, and his secret may come between them. Or will they discover the courage to stay together and find their own perfect ending?

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner,William Maxwell
Publisher : Counterpoint Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049644910

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The Element of Lavishness by Sylvia Townsend Warner,William Maxwell Pdf

An affectionate 40-year correspondence between Sylvia Townsend Warner and her "New Yorker" editor William Maxwell resulted in more than 1,300 exchanged letters--collected here for the first time--that became the most significant and longest-lasting correspondence of their lives. of photos.

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner,Rachel Monckton-How,Moira Rutherford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0951941038

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Cousin and Friend by Sylvia Townsend Warner,Rachel Monckton-How,Moira Rutherford Pdf

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241454824

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The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah Waters The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re-creates a world run by women. 'As an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals. Also, as it happens, a work of high, frequent comedy' George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement 'Spellbinding . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page' Sunday Times 'Magnificent' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486843483

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Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

"Witty, eerie, tender." — John Updike. In this early feminist classic, a middle-aged London spinster escapes her controlling family by moving to the country, becoming a witch, and securing her freedom by making a pact with Satan.

Author : Ailsa Granne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000091991

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Life-Writing, Genre and Criticism in the Texts of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland by Ailsa Granne Pdf

Sylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-century authors. This volume explores her remarkable relationship with Valentine Ackland - her partner for forty years - by closely examining their letters and diaries alongside a selection of their other texts, in particular their poetry. This analysis reveals the crucial role their writing played in establishing, maintaining, and defending their intimacy and describes the emergence of an alternative textual world upon which they became wholly reliant. Examining how Warner and Ackland exploited the distance between their lived life and their accounts of it, gives rise to many fascinating and untold stories. Furthermore, in investigating the fluidity of the boundaries between letters, diaries and fiction this book also provides a fresh perspective on these life-writing forms. Warner and Ackland's need to speak as women, writers and lovers, shaped their texts, so that they became not simply records of events, nor acts of communication, but complex documents in which love is won and lost, myths are created, and lives are changed, as will be the perspectives of those who read this book.

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241454879

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Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

'A novel of love, war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time' Guardian 'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I, taking her out to dinner' Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House, upstanding Victorian matriarch, has packed her errant husband off to Paris with his mistress Minna. But when tragedy throws her life off balance Sophia goes to seek him out, and instead finds herself intensely attracted to the charismatic, bohemian Minna, who leads her on a wild, chaotic adventure through a city in the throes of revolution. 'One of the great under-read British novelists of the twentieth century. This is my favourite of her novels' Sarah Waters 'Every page contains something brilliant, arresting or amusing, and one comes away from it staggered' Claire Harman

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner,David Garnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032579628

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Sylvia and David by Sylvia Townsend Warner,David Garnett Pdf

Author : Claire Harman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241964446

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Sylvia Townsend Warner by Claire Harman Pdf

Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years' Sarah Waters The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lolly Willowes in 1926, but never became a conventional member of London literary life, pursuing instead a long writing career in her own individualistic manner. Cheerfully defying social norms of the day, Warner lived in an openly homosexual relationship with the poet Valentine Ackland for almost forty years. Together, they were committed members of the Communist party and travelled twice to Spain during the Civil War, but Warner paid for her outspokenness with years of neglect, and channelled much of her emotional and intellectual energy into letters, poems and heart-breaking diaries that remained unpublished during her lifetime. In this enthralling and enlightening biography, Claire Harman tells the story of Warner's remarkable life and restores her to her rightful place as one of Britain's most unique and brilliant writers. "As passionate and truthful, elegant and enchanting as its subject." George D Painter "Harman skilfully weaves Sylvia's stories and letters into the biography, and the brilliance of the samples on display constantly takes you aback... Outstanding" Sunday Times

Author : Harry Blount (Spirit),Mary Blount White
Publisher : Upper Access Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0942679032

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Letters from the Other Side by Harry Blount (Spirit),Mary Blount White Pdf

Blind since childhood, Mary Blount White was limited in what she could write. Yet after her brother and sister had died, she asked her father for a pencil and began to transcribe messages by automatic handwriting. She said, I felt as if I held a galvanic battery in my hand. Between 1913 and 1917 she received scores of letters from Harry and Helen, describing life after death. Their straight talk about the need for peace, tolerance of others, individual responsibility, and existence on other planes has impressed many and is still relevant today.This was one of the first books we published, and we've kept it in print because new people keep discovering it and thanking us for making it available. Note: The original publication date was 1987, although that date does not work on this Web form.

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307789877

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So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell Pdf

In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those boys—now a grown man—tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who has the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss.

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141994796

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After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

'She has a talent amounting to genius' John Updike Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Doña Ana, the woman he tried to seduce, will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Set in a rural eighteenth-century Spain rife with suspicion and cruelty, and featuring a glorious cast of peasants, aristocrats and vengeful ghosts, this moving, surprising tragicomedy is also Sylvia Townsend Warner's response to the dark days of the Spanish Civil War. 'The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans' Sarah Waters