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A Different Sound - Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers by Elizabeth Bowen; Daphne du Maurier; Elizabeth Taylor; Lucy Scholes (Editor)
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland--many being published in America for the first time These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and pro ...Show more
A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
During summer games of hide and seek Harriet falls in love with Vesey and his elusive, teasing ways. When he goes to Oxford she cherishes his photograph and waits for the letter that never comes. Years pass, and Harriet stifles her imaginings; with a husband and daughter, she excels at respectability. B ...Show more
A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory is painfully involved with her neighbour, Robert, while his wife Beth, Tory's best friend, is consumed by the worlds she creates ...Show more
A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics,VMC Designer Collection
'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' - Elizabeth Bowen In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory ...Show more
A Wreath Of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her painting and Liz with her baby - seem to exclude her from the gossipy intimacies of previous summers. Anxious that she will remain encased in her solitary life as a school secret ...Show more
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House ...After reading The Lady Irania, ...Show more
At Mrs Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The debut novel from Elizabeth Taylor - shortlisted for the Booker Prize * Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that have vanished with the advent of war. Temporarily, this is home for Julia, who has joined her husba ...Show more
Bats: An Illustrated Guide to All Species by Marianne Taylor; Elizabeth Clinton (Editor); Merlin D. Tuttle (Foreword by)
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Category: Science & Natural History
The ultimate illustrated guide to all known bat speciesBats: An Illustrated Guide to All Species explores bats and their fundamental role in our ecosystems through lavish full-color photographs and lively narrative. From the Giant Golden Crowned Flying Fox, a megabat with a wingspan of more than five fe ...Show more
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor; Joanna Kingham (Afterword by); Jonathan Keates (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time!' Elizabeth Jane Howard * A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth centrury's finest novelists. When Amy's husband dies on holiday in Istanbul, she is supported by the kindly but ...Show more
In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'"You taste of rain," he said, kissing her. "People say I married her for her money," he thought contentedly, and for the moment was full of the self-respect that loving her had given him.' Kate Heron is a wealthy, charming widow who marries, much to the disapproval of friends and neighbours, a man ten ...Show more
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize On a rainy Sunday afternoon, Mrs Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are a mixed bunch - magnificently flawed and eccentric - living off crumbs of affection and an obsessive interest in t ...Show more
Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor; Neel Mukherjee (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
An amusing, wry homage to Jane Eyre by one of the best novelists of the twentieth century.When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set for the archetypal romance between young girl and austere widowed employer. Strange secrets abound in the ramshackle ...Show more