Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was a great British 20th-century feminist modernist novelist, also a poet, a musicologist, and a Communist, and lived for most of her life in Dorset with her lover, the poet Valentine Ackland.
31 Ebooks de Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Scenes of Childhood
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 contri …
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€11.46
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Stranger With a Bag
This, arguably Sylvia Townsend Warner's most luminous collection of stories, was first published in 1966 and includes 'A Love Match', hailed by the Los Angeles Times as 'a supreme …
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€11.52
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Winter in the Air
Winter in the Air comprises eighteen short stores written between 1938 and 1955. Despite the time span Sylvia Townsend Warner»s biographer, Claire Harman, considers this collection the first »to se …
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€11.55
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
In this delightful and witty novel, Laura Willowes rebels against pressure to be the perfect "maiden aunt." Not interested in men or the rushed life of London, Laura is forced to move there …
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€15.40
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Of Cats and Elfins
“Sylvia Townsend Warner was one of our finest writers.” – Neil Gaiman Following the success of Kingdoms of Elfin in October 2018, this collection includes the remaining four Elfin stories along with …
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€9.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Kingdoms of Elfin
“A book for anyone who has heard the horns of Elfin in the distance at twilight.” – Neil Gaiman In Kingdoms of Elfin Sylvia Townsend Warner explores the morals, domestic practices, politics …
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Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
"This is the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle-class Englishwoman who politely declines to make the expected connection with the opposite sex and becomes a witch instead." …
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€16.60
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
Lolly Willowes ist mit achtundzwanzig Jahren eine alte Jungfer, als ihr Vater stirbt und sie in die Obhut ihrer Brüder gerät. Nach zwanzig Jahren der Einschränkungen als unverheiratete Tante beschlie …
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€19.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
‘A great shout of life and individuality … an act of defiance that gladdens the soul’ Guardian Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces t …
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€8.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Corner That Held Them
‘One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty’ Sarah Waters The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the wo …
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€8.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Summer Will Show
‘A novel of love, war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time’ Guardian ‘She is my husband’s mistress – and here am I, taking her out to dinner’Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer Ho …
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€8.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Mr Fortune’s Maggot
‘Witty, poetic, clairvoyant’ John Updike The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey branch of Lloyds Bank, has found his vocation: to convert the inhabitants of the remote tropical island …
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€8.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: True Heart
‘The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans … her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal, the vulnerable, the exploited, the obscure’ Sarah Waters Sukey Bond, …
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€8.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
«Su visión de la mujer es la que otorga a esta novela esa vertiente subversiva que la emparenta con la obra de Jane Austen y Virginia Woolf». SARAH WATERS Lolly Willowes, de veintiocho años, está aún …
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€9.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: After the Death of Don Juan
‘She has a talent amounting to genius’ John Updike Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured – or has he escaped? Do a Ana, the woma …
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€8.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Flint Anchor
‘A comic masterpiece’ Patrick Gale, Guardian Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This …
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€8.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
“The story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favor of freedom and the most unexpected of alliances.” —The New York Times Book Review In her acclaimed …
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€7.64
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
First published in 1926, “Lolly Willowes” is Sylvia Townsend Warner’s satirical feminist comedy of manners. Set in the first part of the twentieth century, the novel concerns the aging spinster Laura …
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€6.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: TH White. A Biography
T H White, author of The Sword in The Stone, The Once and Future King, The Book of Merlyn, The Goshawk, and many other works of English literature, died at sea from a heart attack in 1964, aged 58. T …
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€12.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
In this delightful and witty novel, Laura Willowes rebels against pressure to be the perfect "maiden aunt." Not interested in men or the rushed life of London, Laura is forced to move there …
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€17.97
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Winter in the Air
This Christmas, 'hand yourself over to be enchanted' (Guardian) by the English genius behind witchcraft classic Lolly Willowes. 'Worth 9.99 for the book jacket alone (trust Faber) … …
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€9.02
Saki & Laurie Lee: Merry Christmas
Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten von der Insel, erzählt von Saki, Laurie Lee, Martha Gellhorn, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Taylor, Patrick Hamilton und Patrick Leigh Fermor. …
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Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
Considered an early feminist classic, Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes; Or The Loving Huntsman is a fantastical comedy about a middle-aged witch and her search for peace that was selected as t …
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Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Set in early twentieth-century England, Lolly Willowes is a satirical comedy of manners and an early feminist classic. With deft storytelling and compelling prose, Sylvia …
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€2.99
Sylvia Townsend Warner: El corazón verdadero
En la Inglaterra victoriana, Sukey Bond, una muchacha recién salida del orfanato, es enviada como sirvienta a una granja de Essex. En la granja trabaja Eric, un muchacho apuesto y huidizo que, en su …
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€9.49
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
Lolly Willowes, also known as Lolly Willowes or, The Loving Huntsman, is a 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It’s a fascinating story that blends elements of satire, feminism, and supernatural th …
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