Crampton Hodnet: (Virago Modern Classics)
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Crampton Hodnet: (Virago Modern Classics)
Crampton Hodnet: (Virago Modern Classics)

Crampton Hodnet: (Virago Modern Classics)

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Barbara Pym (Author) Louis de Bernieres (Contributor)  

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INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to young academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. Anthea's father, however, an Oxford don, is tired of his marriage and carrying on in the most unseemly fashion with his student Barbara Bird - they have been spotted together at the British Museum! Miss Doggett isn't aware, though, that under her very own roof the lodging curate has proposed to her paid companion Miss Morrow. She wouldn't approve of that at all.
Barbara Pym (1913-80) was born in Shropshire and educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. When in 1977 the TLS asked critics to name the most underrated authors of the past 75 years, only one was named twice (by Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil): Barbara Pym. Her novels are characterised by what Anne Tyler has called 'the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life'.
  • Contributor: Barbara Pym
  • Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
  • ISBN13: 9781844087211
  • Number of Pages: 288
  • Packaged Dimensions: 130x198x20mm
  • Packaged Weight: 232
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Release Date: 2012-08-02
  • Series: Virago Modern Classics
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Barbara Pym (1913-80) was born in Shropshire and educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. When in 1977 the TLS asked critics to name the most underrated authors of the past 75 years, only one was named twice (by Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil): Barbara Pym. Her novels are characterised by what Anne Tyler has called 'the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life'.

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