Angela Thirkell

Broschiertes Buch

High Rising

A Virago Modern Classic

Mitarbeit: McCall Smith, Alexander

Beschreibung

The first of Angela Thirkell's brilliantly satirical English comedies set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, High Rising is now available as a Virago Modern Classic. Perfect for fans of Stella Gibbons, PG Wodehouse or EF Benson.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Virago Modern Classics
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group / Virago
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 196g
• ISBN-13: 9781844088836
• ISBN-10: 1844088839
• Artikelnr.: 36107343

Rezensionen

Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself Alexander McCall Smith