Angela Thirkell

The Brandons

A Virago Modern Classic

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Produktbeschreibung

A delightfully appealing 1930s comedy from Angela Thirkell's classic Barsetshire series: the Brandons cheerfully confront matters of love, money and an ill-tempered dowager aunt.

Produktdetails

• Virago Modern Classics
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9781844089703
• ISBN-10: 1844089703
• Artikelnr.: 40287939

Autorenporträt

Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.