Selected Stories (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Warner, Sylvia Townsend

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853811599 ISBN 13: 9781853811593

Verlag: Little, Brown and Company (UK), 2000

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Reseña del editor

A brother and sister, shattered by the horrors of war, find solace in a tender, incestuous 'marriage'. A wife, bored and rancorous, stitches a widow's quilt. An old level-crossing keeper watches over his speechless, disfigured niece. In this magnificent selection of her stories, ranging from 1932 to 1977, Sylvia Townsend Warner casts a compassionate but piercing eye on the oddities of love. There's the joyously farcical story of the mouse and the four-poster bed, the strange fugue of a sad woman and her doppelganger cat, the composer unexpectedly spending an afternoon 'living for others'. And finally, there's the skein of stories reporting on the events of Elfland, precise, witty and strange. Readers who know this author's work will be delighted, while newcomers will find the perfect introduction to a writer of incomparable style and substance.

Biografía del autor

Born in Harrow (1893-1978), Sylvia Townsend Warner published seven novels, four volumes of poetry, a volume of essays and eight volumes of short stories. She lived most of her adult life with her close companion Valentine Ackland in Dorset and Norfolk.

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• Verlag: Little, Brown and Company (UK)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1853811599
• ISBN 13: 9781853811593
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 440