Elizabeth Taylor

Palladian

Mitarbeit:Mukherjee, Neel

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Produktbeschreibung

An amusing, wry homage to Jane Eyre by one of the best novelists of the twentieth century.

When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set for the archetypal romance between young girl and austere widowed employer. Strange secrets abound in the ramshackle house. But conventions are subverted in this atmospheric novel: one of its worlds is suffused with classical scholarship and literary romance, but the other is chaotic, quarrelsome and even farcical. Cassandra is to discover that in real life, tragedy, comedy and acute embarrassment are never far apart.

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Produktdetails

• Virago Modern Classics 693
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group / Virago Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 172g
• ISBN-13: 9781844087136
• ISBN-10: 1844087131
• Artikelnr.: 33342742

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) is increasingly recognised as one of the best British writers of the twentieth century. She wrote her first book, At Mrs Lippincote's, during the war while her husband was in the Royal Air Force, and this was followed by eleven further novels and a children's book, Mossy Trotter. Her acclaimed short stories appeared in publications including Vogue, the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar.

Rezensionen

She's a magnificent and underrated mid-20th-century writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike David Baddiel Independent