The Corner That Held Them
Autor Sylvia Townsend Warner Claire Harmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 sep 2019
The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re-creates a world run by women.
'As an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals. Also, as it happens, a work of high, frequent comedy' George Steiner,The Times Literary Supplement
'Spellbinding . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page'Sunday Times
'Magnificent' Philip Hensher,Daily Telegraph
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781681373874
ISBN-10: 1681373874
Pagini: 424
Dimensiuni: 134 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
ISBN-10: 1681373874
Pagini: 424
Dimensiuni: 134 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Notă biografică
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel, Lolly Willowes (available from NYRB Classics), appeared in 1926 and was the first ever Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Over the course of her long career, Warner published six more novels, seven books of poetry, a translation of Proust, fourteen volumes of short stories, and a biography of T.H. White. NYRB also publishes her novels Mr. Fortune, Summer Will Show and The Corner That Held Them.
Claire Harman’s first book, a biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner, was published in 1989 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She has since published biographies of Fanny Burney, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë and has edited works by Stevenson and Warner. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006 and became President of The Alliance of LIterary Societies in 2016.
Claire Harman’s first book, a biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner, was published in 1989 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She has since published biographies of Fanny Burney, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë and has edited works by Stevenson and Warner. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006 and became President of The Alliance of LIterary Societies in 2016.
Recenzii
A
classic,
whose
resonance
deepens
inside
the
reader
in
proportion
to
its
austere,
luminous
discretion.
Also,
as
it
happens,
a
work
of
high,
frequent
comedy.
As
an
act
of
imagined
history
this
novel
has
few
rivals
A spellbinding piece of historical fiction-spare, luminous. . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page
A magnificent recreation of the life of a medieval convent
A spellbinding piece of historical fiction-spare, luminous. . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page
A magnificent recreation of the life of a medieval convent