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Rose MacAulay
Book List in Order: 17 titles
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The Towers of Trebizond
- Sep-1980
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Hailed as "an utter delight, the most brilliant witty and charming book I have read since I can't remember when" by The New York Times when it was originally published in 1956, Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizond tells the gleefully absurd sto...
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Crewe Train
- Jan-1986
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Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid re...
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The World My Wilderness
- Jan-1988
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Banished by her mother to England, Barbara is thrown into the ordered formality of English life. Confused and unhappy, she discovers the wrecked and flowering wastes around St Paul's, where she finds an echo of the wilderness of Provence and is force...
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Personal Pleasures
- Mar-1991
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Rose Macaulay was one of the most popular satirical novelists of her day. In this lively, anecdotal collection, she turns her admittedly opinionated attention to life's random, and largely unrecorded, pleasures. From as-tronomy to new cars, church-go...
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Dangerous Ages
- Jun-1994
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Non-combatants and Others
- Apr-2010
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Rose Macaulay's powerfully felt pacifist novel of the First World War records the suffering and passion of Alix Sandomir's rebellion against the foolishness of her fellow noncombatants. The year is 1915, and Alix moves from her cousins home in the co...
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Told by an Idiot
- Oct-2011
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It is shortly before Christmas in the year 1879, the forty-second year of Queen Victoria's reign, when the curtain rises on the Garden family: on Mr Garden, a clergyman of many denominations, about to lose his faith for the umpteenth time, on his ...
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Fabled Shore
- Aug-2012
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The long Mediterranean coast-line of Spain from the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules, with the Atlantic shore beyond that sweeps round Cadiz Bay to the southern edge of Portugal, is the changing scene of Rose Macaulay's journey, here described,...
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Orphan Island
- Aug-2012
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In 1855 a philanthropic young person, Miss Charlotte Smith, was escorting forty orphans to San Francisco when the ship was wrecked, and the survivors-Miss Smith, the orphans, a doctor, and some others, landed on a desert island. Those sailors who had...
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The Furnace
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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The Lee Shore
1920 novel by Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, the English novelist. She received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Towers of Trebizond in 1956. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biography and travel....
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Mystery At Geneva
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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Potterism
1920 novel by Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, the English novelist. She received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Towers of Trebizond in 1956. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biography and travel....
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Three Days
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...