Mary Butts

• Oct-1974
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• Jun-1991
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• Jul-1992
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The short stories of Mary Butts possess an intriguing relation to the present moment. "Lost" for sixty years, they reappear now with freshness and panache, capturing that mixture of hopeful anxiety which describes the contemporary vogue, including ou...

• Jan-1994
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Alexander the Great and Queen Cleopatra stand shrouded in myth and mystery at opposite ends of a Greek epoch, symbols of the Hellenizing conquests of Egypt and Persia, the ascendancy of Alexandria, and the final absorption of Ptolemaic Egypt into the...

• Mar-1998
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Ashe of Rings and Other Writings is the fourth Recovered Classics edition featuring the works of Mary Butts. This volume contains Mary Butts's first published novel, Ashe of Rings, which depicts psychological turmoil during the First World War in the...

• Jun-2001
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A psychosexual quest for spiritual transformation leads to madness and death on the Cornish countryside in this 1928 “masterpiece of modern prose” (London Review of Books). To escape the devastation of World War I, a group of young bohemians deca...

• Dec-2014
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For the first time in a single volume, all three of Mary Butts's (1890-1937) story collections have been gathered, and seven uncollected stories have been added (including two pieces never before published). Preface by John Ashbery. Foreword by Bruce...

• Jan-2022
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Mary Frances Butts was born on 13th December 1890 in Poole, Dorset.Her early years were spent at Salterns, an 18th-century house overlooking Poole Harbour. Sadly in 1905 her father died, and she was sent for boarding at St Leonard's school for girls...

• Jan-2022
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Mary Frances Butts was born on 13th December 1890 in Poole, Dorset.Her early years were spent at Salterns, an 18th-century house overlooking Poole Harbour. Sadly in 1905 her father died, and she was sent for boarding at St Leonard's school for girls...

• Jan-2023
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Mary Frances Butts was born on 13th December 1890 in Poole, Dorset.Her early years were spent at Salterns, an 18th-century house overlooking Poole Harbour. Sadly in 1905 her father died, and she was sent for boarding at St Leonard's school for girls...

• Dec-2023
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Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity...