Sylvia Townsend Warner

• Mar-1962
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The original U.S. blurb says it well, '...But some readers consider her short stories the best vehicle for her impeccable craftsmanship, her peerless ability to sketch in a few deft lines a man or woman in a brief moment of destiny - tragic, comic, a...

• Feb-1966
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• Apr-1971
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• Mar-1977
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• Jan-1982
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In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yor...

• Feb-1983
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• Jan-1984
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The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-bank clerk, has spent 10 years as a South Seas Island missionary when a "maggot" impels him to embark on an assignment to the even more remote island of Fanua, where a white man is a rarity. Mr. Fortune is a good man...

• Nov-1984
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• Jan-1986
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• Aug-1986
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• Nov-1987
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In revolutionary Paris, a disaffected Victorian wife becomes enraptured by her husband’s mistress -- a “brilliantly entertaining” historical fiction novel that was “far ahead of its time” (Guardian). “One of the great under-read British...

• Oct-1988
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A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors.Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history...

• Jun-2003
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Of the previous century's many great storytellers, Sylvia Townsend Warner was the supreme enchantress. The Music at Long Verney collects twenty of her best short stories, most of them from the great years at The New Yorker. They span a full half-cent...

• Nov-2008
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John Barnard, leading merchant at a Norfolk port, is a pillar of nineteenth-century rectitude. Though stern and aloof with his indolent, tippling wife and watchful children, he is undermined by helpless love for his pretty, cold-hearted daughter Mary...

• Nov-2008
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This is the love story of Sukey Bond and Eric Seaborn.Sukey is an orphan, in service, the lowest of the low. It is 1873, and in her first position as a servant girl on a farm in the Essex Marshes, she meets Eric- gentle, simple, a 'holy fool.' The lo...

• Jan-2011
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Winter in the Air comprises eighteen short stores written between 1938 and 1955. Despite the time span Sylvia Townsend Warner's biographer, Claire Harman, considers this collection the first 'to seem all-of-a-piece - not unvarious, but more controlle...

• Jul-2011
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This, arguably Sylvia Townsend Warner's most luminous collection of stories, was first published in 1966 and includes 'A Love Match', hailed by the Los Angeles Times as 'a supreme example of her technique.' It is the tale of Celia and Justin Tizard, ...

• Aug-2011
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SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893�"1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel, Lolly Willowes (available from New York Review Books), appeared in...

• Mar-2021
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“The story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favor of freedom and the most unexpected of alliances.” -- The New York Times Book Review In her acclaimed debut novel, the twentieth-century English writer “moves wi...