Author: Angela Thirkell Year: 1942 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction
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ISBNs: 9780786702732 9780349007441 0786702737 0349007446 |
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This dry comedy of manners, set in a parochial England that was rapidly disappearing under the threat of Nazi Germany, was the first of Thirkell's increasingly dark novels written during World War II. But the placid surface of middle-class life in towns such as Marling Melicent--where a bohemian, faintly disreputable brother and sister suddenly appear and rent an Edwardian manor--remains mostly undisturbed. Thirkell, who portrayed a vanishing England, is enjoying something of a revival with many of her 40-odd novels being reprinted in the United States.
This book is part of the "Barsetshire" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Love at All Ages" First published in 1959 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Jutland Cottage" First published in 1953 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Happy Returns" First published in 1952 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "County Chronicle" First published in 1950 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Old Bank House" First published in 1949 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Private Enterprise" First published in 1947 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Peace Breaks Out" First published in 1946 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Miss Bunting" First published in 1945 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Headmistress" First published in 1944 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Northbridge Rectory" First published in 1941 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Before Lunch" First published in 1939 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Pomfret Towers" First published in 1938 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Summer Half" First published in 1937 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "August Folly" First published in 1936 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Wild Strawberries" First published in 1934 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "High Rising" First published in 1933 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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