Elizabeth Taylor

• Jan-1954
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Lorsque Hester Lilly s''installe chez son cousin Robert, eu égard à son récent statut d''orpheline, l''épouse de ce dernier, Muriel, n''apprécie guère. Certes Hester Lilly doit occuper des fonctions de secrétaire, certes la jeune fille a plut�...

• Mar-1959
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Amongst the characters in this collection of short stories are the upright Mrs Allen, who unwittingly provides an alibi for her slackly corseted home help, and Emily, who has written fluent, amusing letters to a distinguished novelist for 10 years bu...

• Jan-1961
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In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful, often funny, and sometimes tragic.'You taste of rain', he said, kissing her. 'People say I mar...

• Jun-1964
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• Jul-1974
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INTRODUCED BY PHILIP HENSHER'Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short...

• Nov-1976
• / Historical Romance
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'How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time!' Elizabeth Jane Howard* A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth century's finest novelists.When Amy is suddenly left widowed ...

• Jan-1984
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• Dec-1985
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• Aug-1986
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A decade-spanning love story from an author who is “the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike” (The Independent)Haunted by unspoken tensions and stifled ardor, two lovers navigate shifting expectations and societal changes in inter-war...

• Jun-1987
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Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor’s great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that’s been left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced, de...

• 1993
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• 1993
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• Oct-1997
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In 1945 the publication of AT MRS LIPPINCOTE'S launched Elizabeth Taylor's career. The author of twelve novels and four collections of short stories, she excelled at unravelling the comedy of ordinary life. DANGEROUS CALM draws on her volumes of shor...

• Aug-2008
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A darkly witty classic about literary worth, ambition, and romantic idealism set in turn-of-the-century England, with an introduction from Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall) “A delicious satire on the career of schoolgirl sensation Angelica Deverell. She's ...

• Nov-2010
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First published in 1968, this quietly ironic exploration of the ways in which the parental mould is not easily broken, is one of Elizabeth Taylor's most ambitious novels. You know,' Midge began, and paused. She was rather taken aback, and could not...

• Apr-2011
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Title: Blindpits. [A novel. By Elizabeth Taylor.]

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding o...

• Jun-2011
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In 1946, Elizabeth Taylor -- then fourteen and a major star at MGM -- published a book about her pet chipmunk, Nibbles. With wit, charm, and remarkable skill, she related the adventures and mishaps of her high-spirited friend. She and Nibbles were vi...

• Jul-2011
• / Women's Fiction
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A blackly humorous story of loneliness, deception, and life in old age by one of the most accomplished novelists of the twentieth century.On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January, the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the Claremont Hotel in South ...

• Oct-2011
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INTRODUCED BY HELEN DUNMOREElizabeth Taylor's darkest novel . . . She writes with a sensuous richness of language that draws the reader down the most shadowy paths . . . Extremely beguiling. Taylor makes the living moment present, touchable, disturbi...

• Jun-2012
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Elizabeth Taylor, highly acclaimed author of classic novels such as Angel, A Game of Hide and Seek and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, is also renowned for her powerful, acutely observed stories. Here for the first time, the stories - including some on...

• Sep-2014
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Suitable for age 8 yrs and upJazz Sugarman is just itching for an adventure. If she can't find one she will dream one up and make sure that her little sister, Lizanne, and friends Sarah and Badger Baker are included.A few years earlier, the kids had ...

• Sep-2014
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Julie Tennant's grandmother dies two months before summer vacation. Julie is devastated but like any fifteen-year-old the desire to have fun with friends at times overcomes her sadness.Harris Vane gives Julie her first kiss, but that night he takes M...

• Sep-2014
• / Psychological Suspense
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Elizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postwar period, prized and praised by Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel, among others. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett’s uncanny sensitiv...

• Feb-2015
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Why would 13 diverse people board a small ship with six tons of pure gold in her belly and set out from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and sail to an obscure island group deep in the South Pacific? If the year were 1943, would they be mad or s...

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The debut novel from Elizabeth Taylor - shortlisted for the Booker Prize*Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that have vanished with the advent of war. Temporarily...

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INTRODUCED BY DAVID BADDIEL'Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short ...