A classic comedy of manners from Barbara Pym, the acclaimed author of Quartet in Autumn, Jane and Prudence and Excellent Women
Barbara Pym Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
2 juni 1913 – 11 januari 1980
De romans van Barbara Pym worden geprezen om hun subtiele ironie en exquise stijl, en bieden diepe inzichten in de ingewikkelde dans van sociale gewoonten en menselijke relaties. Onder de oppervlakte van het schijnbaar gewone dorps- en buitenleven ontdekt Pym vakkundig de verborgen verlangens en stille wanhoop van haar personages. Haar werk neemt vaak de vorm aan van een zachte komedie, maar is doordrenkt van een diepe, vaak tragische, onderstroom die de motivaties onderzoekt die ons leven aansturen. Pyms kenmerkende stem vangt de nuances van menselijke verbinding met opmerkelijke precisie en humor.
A unique autobiography of Barbara Pym, celebrated author of Quartet in Autumn, includes an introduction by Jilly Cooper
Civil To Strangers
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This volume includes an early novel and three novellas, which were discovered and published after Barbara Pym's death in 1980.
No Fond Return Of Love
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'One of her very best - comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself' Shirley Hazzard
Virago Modern Classics: No Fond Return of Love
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Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself, however ridiculous it may be, is falling, just a little, for Aylwin. Once life's little humiliations are played out, maybe love will be returned, and fondly, after all.
Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less. Her interest wanders to the nearby Anglo-catholic church, where at last she can neglect her comfortable household in the more serious-minded company of three unmarried priests, and, of course, Piers Longridge, a man of an unfathomably different character altogether.
An Unsuitable Attachment
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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 Academic Question
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A delightful comedy of manners, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym
Quartet in autumn is the story of four people in late middle-age who work in the same office and who all suffer from loneliness. Poignantly and with humour, Pym takes us through their small lives and the facades they erect to defend themselves against the outside world.
