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Published by Europa Editions, 2014
ISBN 10: 1609451996ISBN 13: 9781609451998
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.7.
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Published by Europa Editions, 2008
ISBN 10: 1933372567ISBN 13: 9781933372563
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.4.
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Published by Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 034911840XISBN 13: 9780349118406
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FILTH, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs and Silks can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong. Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's new novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. Brilliantly constructed - going backwards and forwards in time, yet constantly working towards the secret at its core - OLD FILTH is funny and heart-breaking, witty and peopled with characters who astonish, dismay and delight the reader. Jane Gardam is as sensitive to the 'jungle' within children as she is to the eccentricities of the old. A touch of magic combines with compassion, humour and delicacy to make OLD FILTH a genuine masterpiece. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Europa Editions, Incorporated, 2016
ISBN 10: 1609453441ISBN 13: 9781609453442
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Published by Little Brown and Company, 2014
ISBN 10: 1408705680ISBN 13: 9781408705681
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 4.
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Published by Europa Editions, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 1933372133ISBN 13: 9781933372136
Seller: Books of the World, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Europa Editions, June 2006. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Prior owner's name and phone number to first page, otherwise Fine. Text block pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 290 pages.
Published by Penguin Books, New York, NY, 1986
ISBN 10: 0140083804ISBN 13: 9780140083804
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
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Paperback. First Edition Thus in USA [1986], so stated. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: just a hint of wear to the extremities; very mild rubbing to wrapper covers; the pages have tanned a bit, due to aging; the binding shows barely discernible lean, but remains perfectly secure; the previous owner has written her name and date and a very short note at the front endpaper, but the text is clean. Not perfectly, but remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 272 pages. Originally published in 1985 in Australia and in the same year in hardcover in the USA. Trade Paperback. A thoughtful and frequently uproariously funny book about an aspiring dramatist at a small college and the therapuetic effect her new play has on all who participate in it. So here's the story line: Trinity College hires novelist Alma Porch to teach a summer seminar at the school's Better Body Though the Arts program. Her students are all overweight women wanting to lose weight. However, her first day at the college starts off with a bang when Miss Porch rams into the back of bus leaving her vehicle disabled and escape futile. She meets her roommate Mrs. Castle who cannot take a breath without talking about her darling three grandchildren; who after fifteen minutes Miss Porch - and the reader - loathes sight unseen. She introduces her class (that seem to exclusively include gays and lesbians only) to what Miss Porch believes will soon be a classic drama, "Foxybaby" (that she is in the midst of writing), but insists the students will perform. The story line focuses on a sandwich generation single mom on the run with her child and her father. Although her preference is classical music like punk and hard rock to accompany her play, school director Mrs. Peycroft and her friend Miss Paisley intrude. This is a character study that uses hyperbole to satirize relationships. An Australian absurdist musing on relationships between lonely souls. The earlier books that I have read by Jolley, while a bit more boisterous in some ways than the works of her contemporaries in England, like Jane Gardam, Muriel Spark, Penelope Lively, and Beryl Bainbridge, seem to fit comfortably into the niche of polite satire occupied by these other, better known authors. With Foxybaby (1985), which follows Mr. Scobie's Riddle (1983). and Miss Peabody's Inheritance (1984)., however, Jolley permanently separates herself from her peers back in England, writing a book in which nothing is sacred, with characters who are sometimes crazy, usually self-absorbed, unashamedly venal, and often bawdy. She is realistic, if not enthusiastic, in her depiction of sex in all its variations as salve for the souls of the lonely and the sometimes bored. Nothing about this book is dainty or subtle. Elizabeth Jolley is clearly having great fun writing for the free, forgiving attitudes of Australia as she creates this over-the-top novel, filled with wild characters - some, like Porch, exceedingly repressed, while others may be taking part in this summer program so they can pursue their desires away from "civilization." Jolley's large cast of characters is well-choreographed to allow the farcical actions to proceed in many different directions at once, though the novel's focus and themes sometimes get lost in the confusion. The ironies of the "Foxybaby" play, with its strange and sexual subtexts, stereotyped characters, and clichéd action, are frequently matched with quotations from real literary sources - Sophocles, Goethe, Proverbs, Jon Dryden, Ibsen, Schopenhauer - providing "breadth" and "depth" to the action, but few readers will take these seriously. Ultimately, the novel connects the action in Porch's play with real life, and this is where everything spins wildly, and some might say, quite happily out of control. First Edition Thus in USA [1986], so stated.
Published by Sphere Books / Abacus, London, 1990
ISBN 10: 0349101167ISBN 13: 9780349101163
Seller: Books of the World, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Paperback Printing. Sphere Books / Abacus, 1990. Trade Paperback. First paperback printing. Good+. Tanned and foxed. Text unmarked. Spine creased. Not from a library. 162 pages. Most of the stories in this collection are about flags and why the English wave them. This collection also includes a ghost story; the story of a hanging in 1919 of a young boy; and "After the Strawberry Tea", a terror story of an English Chernobyl off the coast of Kent.
Published by Walker Books Ltd, 1998
ISBN 10: 074455456XISBN 13: 9780744554564
Seller: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Good. All orders are dispatched the following working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we have over 500,000 books in stock. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
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Published by Abacus 04/06/2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 0349140383ISBN 13: 9780349140384
Seller: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
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Published by Walker Books Ltd, 1995
ISBN 10: 0744543436ISBN 13: 9780744543438
Seller: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.
Published by Abacus
ISBN 10: 0349118450ISBN 13: 9780349118451
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Condition: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A tan to the pages.
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Published by Walker Books, 1995
ISBN 10: 074454341XISBN 13: 9780744543414
Seller: MusicMagpie, Stockport, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. 1703085914. 12/20/2023 3:25:14 PM.
Published by Redcliffe Press Ltd
ISBN 10: 1900178028ISBN 13: 9781900178020
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Published by Walker Books, 1995
ISBN 10: 0744543401ISBN 13: 9780744543407
Seller: MusicMagpie, Stockport, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. 1704290073. 1/3/2024 1:54:33 PM.
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Published by Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 0349138990ISBN 13: 9780349138992
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In so doing, she not only encapsulates a whole period from the glory days of British Empire, through the Second World War, to the present and beyond, but also illuminates the complexities of the character known variously as Eddie, the Judge, Fevvers, Filth, Master of the Inner Temple, Teddy and Sir Edward Feathers. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Published by Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 140870367XISBN 13: 9781408703670
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in work and - though it was never spoken of - in love. Veneering's were not the usual beginnings of an establishment silk: the son of a Russian acrobat marooned in northeast England and a devoted local girl, he escapes the war to emerge in the Far East as a man of panache, success and fame. But, always, at the stuffy English Bar he is treated with suspicion: where did this blond, louche, brilliant Slav come from? Veneering, Filth and their friends tell a tale of love, friendship, grace, the bittersweet experiences of a now-forgotten Empire and the disappointments and consolations of age. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 1856196739ISBN 13: 9781856196734
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A collection of short stories from one of the most satisfying prose stylists of contemporary British fiction. Some have a Christmas theme, others are fables, many of them carry a touch of surrealism. The author is the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Macmillan Silver Pen Award. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Walker Books Ltd, 1995
ISBN 10: 0744543428ISBN 13: 9780744543421
Seller: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.
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Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1989
ISBN 10: 0241127270ISBN 13: 9780241127278
Seller: MusicMagpie, Stockport, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. 1694528838. 9/12/2023 2:27:18 PM.
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Published by Europa Editions, New York, New York, 2010
Seller: Kenneth A. Himber, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. Softcover Edition, Third Printing. Softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.
Published by Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 0349000166ISBN 13: 9780349000169
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 'Gardam writes about love, death, loneliness, money and madness with gentle ferocity. The Old Filth trilogy should be read by anyone who has ever been interested in how we become who we are' Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday 'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our very finest writers' Hilary Mantel 'This humorous, melancholic final volume establishes the trilogy as a modern classic' Kate Saunders, The Times Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in work and -though it was never spoken of - in love. Veneering, Filth and their friends tell a tale of love, friendship, grace, the bittersweet experiences of a now-forgotten Empire and the disappointments and consolations of age. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Penguin Random House Children's UK, 2018
ISBN 10: 0241353025ISBN 13: 9780241353028
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A chilling collection of 14 ghostly stories with a glow-in-the-dark cover!In this eerie and unnerving collection, you will find some eerily chilling tales of the supernatural. Distinguished authors Joan Aiken, Robert Westall, Susan Price and Michael Morpurgo are just a few of the highly acclaimed writers who have contributed stories to this spooky collection. We meet a baby ghost in Ursula Moray Williams' 'A Ghost of One's Own', a cheeky modern boy ghost in Marjorie Darke's 'Hi, It's Me', a Victorian girl ghost with disturbing powers in Jane Gardam's 'Bang, Bang - Who's Dead?' and even a cat ghost in Gene Kemp's 'The Passing of Puddy'. Each one makes the unexplainable and unbelievable so real it will send tingles down your spine and scare you witless! A chilling collection of 14 ghostly stories with a glow-in-the-dark cover! In this eerie and unnerving collection, you will find some eerily chilling tales of the supernatural. Distinguished authors Joan Aiken, Robert Westall, Susan Price and Michael Morpurgo are just a few of the highly acclaimed writers who have contributed stories to this spooky collection. Each one makes the unexplainable and unbelievable so real it will send tingles down your spine and scare you witness! Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Puffin, 1983
ISBN 10: 0140315527ISBN 13: 9780140315523
Seller: Cracabond Books, Durham, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Janet Rawlins (illustrator). A good condition paperback published in Puffin books 1983. The illustrated cover is intact with minor shelf wear. the binding is good. The pages are complete and the text is clean and clear. Winner of the Whitbread Award. A collection of stories around the Cumbrian fells.
Published by Abacus, 1993
ISBN 10: 0349114048ISBN 13: 9780349114040
Seller: Greener Books, London, United Kingdom
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Published by Little, Brown Book Group, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 0349119899ISBN 13: 9780349119892
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In 1904, when she was six, Polly Flint went to live with her two holy aunts at the yellow house by the marsh - so close to the sea that it seemed to toss like a ship, so isolated that she might have been marooned on an island.And there she stayed for eighty-one years, while the century raged around her, while lamplight and Victorian order became chaos and nuclear dread.Crusoe's Daughter, ambitious, moving and wholly original, is her story. * A reissue of one of Jane Gardam's best-loved novels Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Little, Brown Book Group, London, 1988
ISBN 10: 0349114080ISBN 13: 9780349114088
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Jane Austen's love life- long the subject of speculation- is finally, delightfully dealt with in the title story of this collection. Many of the other stories, like 'The Sidmouth Letters,' bring together past and present- with sometimes hilarious, sometimes disturbing, often intensely moving results.With quiet elegance and devastating accuracy, Jane Gardam probes many and varied lives. We meet a trio of Kensington widows, mean-spirited and middle-aged, paying improbable tribute to a long exploited nanny; we await- with dread- a stranger to tea in an Engliish home; we witness the mercurial changes that take place in young love, and we watch as a bohemian, passionate past returns to tempt domestic bliss. This collection brings together past and present, probing many and varied lives. The title story examines Jane Austen's love life, while others introduce a trio of Kensington widows, mean-spirited and middle-aged; a stranger, awaited with dread; and the mercurial changes in young love. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Little, Brown Book Group, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0349121494ISBN 13: 9780349121499
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. During one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the life of young Margaret Marsh. Her father, preaching the doctrine of the unsavoury Primal Saints; her mother, bitterly nostalgic for what might have been; Charles and Binkie, anchored in the past and a game of words; dying Mrs Frayling and Lydia the maid, given to the vulgar enjoyment of life; all contribute to Margaret's shattering moment of truth. And when the storm breaks, it is not only God who is on the rocks as the summer hurtles towards drama, tragedy, and a touch of farce. *A moving, Booker shortlisted story of a girl's coming of age, beautifully rejacketed for this reissue Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Little, Brown Book Group, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 0349145261ISBN 13: 9780349145266
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Jane Gardam's funny and wise masterpiece, reissued with a new introduction by Nina Stibbe'Old Filth has stayed with me for years' SATHNAM SANGHERA'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny' HILARY MANTEL'The last great book I read' RACHEL WEISZ 'Gardam's masterpiece'GUARDIANFilth, in his heydey, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong. Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In doing so, she not only encapsulates a whole period from the glory days of the British Empire, through the Second World War, to the present and beyond, but also illuminates the complexities of the character known variously as Eddie, the Judge, Fevvers, Filth, Master of the Inner Temple, Teddy and Sir Edward Feathers. This funny and wise masterpiece is being reissued as one of five titles celebrating Abacus's 50th anniversary, with a new introduction from Nina Stibbe Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 0062447092ISBN 13: 9780062447098
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This collection of original stories by today's finest women writers--including Tracy Chevalier, Francine Prose, Elizabeth McCracken, Tessa Hadley, Audrey Niffenegger, and more--takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Bront's most beloved novel, Jane Eyre.A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Bront is revered by readers all over the world. Her novels featuring unforgettable, strong heroines still resonate with millions today. And who could forget one of literature's best-known lines: "Reader, I married him" from her classic novel Jane Eyre? Part of a remarkable family that produced three acclaimed female writers at a time in 19th-century Britain when few women wrote, and fewer were published, Bront has become a great source of inspiration to writers, especially women, ever since. Now in Reader, I Married Him, twenty of today's most celebrated women authors have spun original stories, using the famous line from Jane Eyre as a springboard for their own flights of imagination. Reader, I Married Him will feature stories by: Tracy ChevalierTessa Hadley Sarah Hall Helen Dunmore Kirsty Gunn Joanna Briscoe Jane Gardam Emma Donoghue Susan Hill Francine Prose Elif Shafak Evie Wyld Patricia Park Salley Vickers Nadifa Mohamed Esther Freud Linda Grant Lionel Shriver Audrey Niffenegger Namwali Serpell Elizabeth McCracken Unique, inventive, and poignant, the stories in Reader, I Married Him pay homage to the literary genius of Charlotte Bront, and demonstrate once again that her extraordinary vision continues to inspire readers and writers. This collection of original stories by women writers--including Tracy Chevalier, Francine Prose, Elizabeth McCracken, Tessa Hadley, Audrey Niffenegger, and more--takes inspiration from the opening line in Charlotte Brontee's most beloved novel, Jane Eyre. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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