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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910263222
Author : Gwethalyn Graham
Publisher : Cormorant Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770860315
When Erika Drake, of the Westmount Drakes, met and fell in love with Marc Reiser, a Jew from northern Ontario, their respective worlds were turned upside down. Set against the backdrop of the first three years of the Second World War, Earth and High Heaven captured the hearts and minds of its generation and helped to shape the more diverse and inclusive culture we have today. Published in 1944, this classic novel was very timely; it spoke of the prejudices of its time, when Gentiles and Jews did not mix in society. Earth and High Heaven was the most successful novel of its time, winning many awards and prizes, including the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1945 (an award founded to reward books that exposed racism or explored the richness of human diversity). It was translated into eighteen languages and the film rights were purchased by Samuel Goldwyn for a remarkable $100,000. Earth and High Heaven was the first Canadian novel to top the New York Times bestseller list for the better part of a year.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 1903155908
To celebrate having reached their one hundredth volume, here is Persephone's marvelous collection of short stories by women. They are very well chosen: some are by first-rank authors, including Katherine Mansfield, Edith Wharton, Dorothy Parker, Irène Némirovsky and Penelope Fitzgerald; others from well-known writers who have been championed by the imprint and deservedly gained fresh recognition, such as Dorothy Whipple and Mollie Panter-Downes. There are 30 stories in all, and all remarkably unhampered by their time. The first, Susan Glaspell's story of love and lexicography from 1909, seems as bold as the last, by Georgina Hammick (from 1986), though you might not have found such an unflinching description of a gynaecological procedure 103 years ago. Put-upon mothers, exasperated wives, discarded mistresses - shared tropes bind these disparate stories into a coherent whole. A stand-out is Norah Hoult's 1938 story of a wife whose husband is grateful for the money her gentleman friend pays her for sex.
Author : Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307739315
A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.
Author : Dorothy Whipple
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : 1903155649
Dorothy Whipple's key theme is `Live and Let Live'. And what she describes throughout her short stories are people, and particularly parents, who defy this maxim. For this reason her work is timeless, like all great writing. It is irrelevant that Dorothy Whipple's novels were set in an era when middle-class women expected to have a maid; when fish knives were used for eating fish; when children did what they were told. The moral universe she creates has not changed: there are bullies in every part of society; people try their best but often fail; they would like to be unselfish but sometimes are greedy. Like George Eliot, like Mrs Gaskell, like EM Forster, Dorothy Whipple describes men and women in their social milieu, which in her case is the inter-war period, and shows them being all- too human. But her books are not nostalgia reads either, any more than reading George Eliot or Forster is a nostalgia read, nor are they old-fashioned or simplistic. Her prose, it is true, is pure, uncluttered, straightforward, pared down to the bone and never labours the point; her subtlety is the reason why so many people - generally those who have not read her - overlook her excellence.
Author : Katherine Mansfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1903155150
Contains all the short stories written during the last year of Katherine Mansfield's life at Montana, with a new and lengthy publisher's note.
Author : Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910263052
Author : Elizabeth Berridge
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Nineteen forties
ISBN : 1903155045
A collection of short stories by Elizabeth Berridge.
Author : Norah Hoult
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : England
ISBN : 1903155495
Contains three 'acts' which describe what happens to 'Claire Temple' in her last months.
Author : Kay Smallshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Home economics
ISBN : 1903155525
How to Run Your Home without Help, as its title implies, is a book first published in 1949 about housework. It is a fascinating historical document, and, from the vantage point of sixty years on, it is a funny and at times extraordinary bulletin from a vanished world. The wartime overalls were off, the pinny was put back on or, in many cases, worn for the first time, as the market in uniformed domestic help died away.
Author : Dorothy Whipple,Terence Handley MacMath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Avarice
ISBN : 1903155088
A Book Society Choice, shortlisted for the Femina-Vie Heureuse Prize, the second Dorothy Whipple novel we publish is also wonderfully well-written in a clear and straightforward style; yet 'this real treat' ("Sunday Telegraph") is far more subtle than it at first appears. The Blakes are an ordinary family: Celia looks after the house and Thomas works at the family engineering business in Leicester. The book begins when he meets Mr Knight, a financier as crooked as any on the front pages of our newspapers nowadays; and tracks his and his family's swift climb and fall.Part of the cause of the ensuing tragedy is Celia's innocence - blinkered by domesticity, she and her children are the 'victim of the turbulence of the outside world' (Postscript); but finally, through 'quiet tenacity and the refusal to let go of certain precious things, goodness does win out' (Afterword). And the "TLS" wrote: 'The portraits in the book are fired by Mrs Whipple's article of faith - the supreme importance of people.'
Author : Mollie Panter-Downes
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : England
ISBN : 1906462011
Originally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.
Author : Dorothy Whipple
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Adultery
ISBN : 1906462003
J. B. Priestly describes Dorothy Whipple as a "Jane Austen of the Twentieth Century."
Author : Stina Leicht
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781534414594
"On the backwater planet of Brynner, at Persephone Station, a community of android refugees, all female, are hiding since they were able to awaken their AI and escape servitude. But the Serrao-Orlov Corporation is nothing if not tenacious, especially about it's proprietary AI's, and it wants their property back. However, Persephone is run by Rosie, and they are in charge of an organized group of beneficent criminals and assassins, along with a bunch of worn mercenaries who have a thing for doing the honorable thing, despite the odds. And in a fight with the Serrao-Orlov Corporation, the odds are not going to be good, but it would be a glorious fight. Award-nominated author Stina Leicht has created a visciously feminist take on The Magnificent Seven by the way of Blade Runner and Westworld"--
Author : Dorothy Whipple,Jane Brocket
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Apprentices
ISBN : 1903155754
A 1930 novel by Persephone Books' most popular writer about a girl who sets up a dress shop.