Stella Gibbons

Nightingale Wood

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Produktbeschreibung

Unavailable for decades, "Nightingale Wood" is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Gibbons' "Cold Comfort Farm." Includes a new Introduction by Sophie Dahl.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 273g
• ISBN-13: 9780143117575
• ISBN-10: 0143117572
• Artikelnr.: 28437631

Autorenporträt

Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Her first publication was a book of poems The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa (1936), Nightingale Wood (1938), Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Beside the Pearly Water (1954). Her Collected Poems appeared in 1950. In 1933 she married the actor and singer Allan Webb, who died in 1959. They had one daughter. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.