Crewe Train
$35.45
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2018
Summary
‘Rose Macaulay is ripe for rediscovery’ - *THE TIMES*
‘A pleasure and a triumph’ - ERIC LINKLATER
‘One of her very wittiest books’ - *OBSERVER*
Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of ‘civi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349010021 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349010021 |
| Author: | Rose Macaulay |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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One of her very wittiest books - OBSERVER
A pleasure and a triumph - ERIC LINKLATERRose Macaulay, who is probably the cleverest of our novelists, has given us yet another of her glittering novels - COUNTRY LIFEOne of the few authors of whom it may be said she adorns our century - ELIZABETH BOWENAbout The Author
Rose Macaulay
Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. She studied Modern History at Somerville College, Oxford and wrote her first novel, Abbots Verney in 1906. She was introduced to the London literary scene by her childhood friend Rupert Brooke, and her friends included Ivy Compton-Burnett, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Bowen. Macaulay became a celebrated writer who published over thirty works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry in her lifetime, including Crewe Train and The World My Wilderness. She won the James Tait Black Memorial prize for her final novel, The Towers of Trebizond (1956) and was awarded the DBE in 1957.
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