Margaret Drabble is een auteur wiens werken met scherpzinnig intellect en een onderscheidende stijl de diepten van de menselijke ervaring verkennen. Haar romans onderzoeken vaak thema's als geheugen, identiteit en de ingewikkelde complexiteit van relaties, waarbij ze onderzoeken hoe het verleden het heden van een individu vormt. Drabble creëert meesterlijk personages met psychologische diepgang, en haar proza staat bekend om zijn precisie en intellectuele rijkdom. Haar literaire bijdrage ligt in haar voortdurende onderzoek naar de complexiteit van het moderne leven en de menselijke psyche.
The colorful, controversial life story of Angus Wilson--one of the most brilliant writers to emerge after World War II--is captured by acclaimed novelist Margaret Drabble. A master chronicler of the foibles of English life, Wilson emerges as an artist of enormous courage, one of the very few who, even in the 1940s, lived as an open homosexual.
Since Sir Paul Harvey's original Oxford Companion to English Literature was published in 1932 it has established itself as the standard source of reference for general readers, as well as an indispensable guide for students and specialists, on all aspects of English literary culture. In 1985, under the editorship of Margaret Drabble, with a team of distinguished contributors, the text was completely revised while retaining the essential characteristic of Sir Paul Harvey's much-loved volume. Since then, the Companion has continued to respond to the needs of contemporary readers. Now, in this new revision, nearly sixty completely new entries have been added on contemporary novelists, poets, and dramatists. Comprehensive, authoritative, and up to date, this new edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature reasserts its position as the most complete reference guide to English literary culture currently available
Based on "The Oxford Companion to English Literature", this companion not only focuses on the English literature of the British Isles, but also the literature of other countries and disciplines influenced by literature. There are over 5000 entries, updated and including new essays.
The middle years of Kate Armstrong are caught between parents and children and are free of neither. Relentlessly good-natured, surprisingly successful, lapped by the affection of her children and friends and intidily folded into the clutter of her overflowing house, Kate is now suddenly in her forties. Margaret Drable takes Kate's predicament - when Kate is forced to make a reconnaissance of the middle ground of her life - and turns it into a wise, witty and ebullient novel.
Perec was a leading exponent of French literary surrealism who found humour - and pathos - in the human need for classification. Thoughts of Sorts is itself unclassifiable, a unique collection of philosophical riffs on his obsession with lists, puzzles, catalogues, and taxonomies. Introduced by Margaret Drabble.
Collects three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors: Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon. This book examines the works in the context of her major novels and her life, and discusses the social background of her fiction.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties
Een Engelsman en een Amerikaan worden verliefd op hetzelfde meisje; zij vraagt een guru om raad.
Story about the difficulties of marriage and family life in an unglamorous North London environment.
Poet Jane Gray, whose husband has left her shortly before the birth of their second child, falls passionately in love with James, the husband of Lucy - Jane's cousin and her friend. Their adulterous affair remains secret until a tragic accident exposes it to the world and they have to face the consequences! The Waterfall is a powerful novel about sexual awakening and obsession - and the violent conflicts of maternal and sexual love.
