August Folly
A Virago Modern Classic
$34.41
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
24 June 2014
Summary
It’s August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer in the parental home. But the numerous and impossibly glamorous Dean family - exquisite Rachel, her capable husband and six of their nine brilliant children - have come for the holidays, and their hostess Mrs Palmer plans to rope everyone into performing in her disastrous annual play. Surrounded by the irrepressible Deans, Richard and his sister M…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844089680 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1844089681 |
| Author: | Angela Thirkell |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 2014 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 126mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself
Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself
About The Author
Angela Thirkell
Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.
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