In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders those reminiscences, thus forming a volume that reads as a joyous, wry and moving testament to the experience of being alive. The collection evokes a recognisably English world of nannies, butlers, pet podles, public schools, 'good works' and country churches, but the resonances of these stories are universal – funny and touching by turns.
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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780571279036 ● Verlag Faber & Faber ● Erscheinungsjahr 2011 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 2338604 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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