Margaret Drabble
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Pub. Date
2013
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Attractive and witty, Sarah has just graduated from Oxford and started a new job at the BBC. As she immerses herself in the excitement of 1960s London, her beautiful older sister, Louise, marries the famous, though admittedly difficult, novelist Stephen Halifax. Louise initially revels in the newfound wealth and glamor that her marriage affords her, but soon she finds her relationship the subject of bitter gossip and scathing tabloid headlines. Despite...
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"It is 1912 and Bessie Bawtry is a small child living in Breaseborough, a South Yorkshire mining town. Unusually gifted, she sits quietly and studies hard, waiting for the day when she can sit the Cambridge entrance exam and escape the kind of life her ancestors have never even thought to question. Her parents are in awe of her - who is this swan-child, is she a freak? (Where did she get her notions? Who did she think she was?)" "Nearly a century...
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Pub. Date
©2016.
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Driven to live life to its fullest while she still can, a housing expert for the elderly balances her challenging career with the cares of her loved ones, in a tale that juxtaposes her interconnected social circle in England against her contacts in an idyllic expat community in the Canary Islands.
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1998
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A guide to English literature, including special survey articles exploring key concepts (such as Structuralism and Modernism), genres (such as Science Fiction and Biography) , and evolving traditions (including Black British Literature and Post-Colonial Literature). Topics ranging from comic strips and children's literature to the Beat Generation and Saussurean linguistics are examined in detail, as well as the influences--Classical, European, and...