A classic comedy of manners from Barbara Pym, the acclaimed author of Quartet in Autumn, Jane and Prudence and Excellent Women
Barbara Pym Ordine dei libri
2 giugno 1913 – 11 gennaio 1980
I romanzi di Barbara Pym sono celebrati per la loro sottile ironia e lo stile squisito, offrendo profonde intuizioni sull'intricata danza delle usanze sociali e delle relazioni umane. Sotto la superficie della vita apparentemente ordinaria di villaggi e sobborghi, Pym scopre abilmente i desideri nascosti e le silenziose disperazioni dei suoi personaggi. Il suo lavoro assume spesso le sembianze di una commedia garbata, tuttavia è pervaso da una profonda, spesso tragica, corrente sotterranea che esplora le motivazioni che guidano le nostre vite. La voce distintiva di Pym coglie le sfumature della connessione umana con notevole precisione e arguzia.
- 2023
- 2023
A unique autobiography of Barbara Pym, celebrated author of Quartet in Autumn, includes an introduction by Jilly Cooper
- 2022
Civil To Strangers
- 400pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
This volume includes an early novel and three novellas, which were discovered and published after Barbara Pym's death in 1980.
- 2022
Jane And Prudence
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
A charming and funny tale of match-making misadventures by an author whose fans include Philip Larkin, Alexander McCall Smith and Jilly Cooper.
- 2020
No Fond Return Of Love
- 304pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
'One of her very best - comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself' Shirley Hazzard
- 2013
An Unsuitable Attachment
- 288pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
An Unsuitable Attachment is a classic novel from Barbara Pym, acclaimed author of Quartet in Autumn, Jane and Prudence, and Excellent Women.
- 2009
Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less. Her interest wanders to the nearby Anglo-catholic church, where at last she can neglect her comfortable household in the more serious-minded company of three unmarried priests, and, of course, Piers Longridge, a man of an unfathomably different character altogether.
- 1993
- 1991
An Academic Question
- 224pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
A delightful comedy of manners, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym
- 1991
Quartet in autumn is the story of four people in late middle-age who work in the same office and who all suffer from loneliness. Poignantly and with humour, Pym takes us through their small lives and the facades they erect to defend themselves against the outside world.
