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In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders those reminiscences, thus forming a volume that reads as a joyous, wry and moving testament to the experience of being alive. The collection evokes a recognisably English world of nannies, butlers, pet podles, public schools,'good works' and country churches, but the resonances of these stories are universal - funny and touching by turns.
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In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders those reminiscences, thus forming a volume that reads as a joyous, wry and moving testament to the experience of being alive. The collection evokes a recognisably English world of nannies, butlers, pet podles, public schools, 'good works' and country churches, but the resonances of these stories are universal - funny and touching by turns.
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Autorenportrait
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Detailansicht
Scenes of Childhood
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9780571279036
Umbreit-Nr.: 3777823
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 184 S., 0.23 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 19.05.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen