Jane and Prudence von Pym, Barbara

INTRODUCED BY SALLEY VICKERS 'Her best [novels] are sheer delight, and all of them companionable. Quiet, paradoxical, funny and sad, they have the iron in them of permanence too' JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKERCatherine Oliphant is a writer and...

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INTRODUCED BY CLARE CHAMBERS 'The subtlest of her books . . . the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art' PHILIP LARKINWilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably...

"The finest introduction to Barbara Pym" (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen One of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent...

Probably Pym's most famous novel 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin von Pym, Barbara

The Sweet Dove Died von Pym, Barbara

"Quartet in Autumn" ist ein Roman von Barbara Pym, der das Leben von vier älteren Büroangestellten in London schildert. Die Hauptfiguren, Letty, Marcia, Norman und Edwin sind unverheiratet und haben keine Familie. Sie haben sich an die...

With an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith. Mildred Lathbury is often taken for granted, and often gets involved in other people's lives. But things get tricky when glamorous new neighbours the Napiers move in. von Pym, Barbara

"Quartet in Autumn" von Barbara Pym ist ein Roman, der das Leben von vier älteren Kollegen – Letty, Marcia, Edwin und Norman – in einem Londoner Büro beschreibt. Die Geschichte spielt in den 1970er Jahren und beleuchtet die...

"Quartet in Autumn" von Barbara Pym, nicht Alexander McCall Smith, ist ein Roman, der erstmals 1977 veröffentlicht wurde. Das Buch handelt von vier älteren alleinstehenden Menschen – Letty, Marcia, Norman und Edwin – die zusammen in...

Jilly Cooper introduces this republication of an early comic novel by Barbara Pym. von Pym, Barbara