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This Christmas, bask in these 'diminutive masterpieces' (Guardian) by the English genius behind Lolly Willowes. "One of our finest writers." -- Neil Gaiman "One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years. " -- Sarah Waters "Diminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be enchanted." -- Guardian "Extraordinary, lucid wildness." -- Helen MacDonald >In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes r...

Syliva Townsend Warner pursues the psychology of the story with beautiful accuracy' John Carey

Lolly Willowes ist mit achtundzwanzig Jahren eine alte Jungfer, als ihr Vater stirbt und sie in die Obhut ihrer Brüder gerät. Nach zwanzig Jahren der Einschränkungen als unverheiratete Tante beschließt sie, sich endlich zu befreien und nach Great Mop in die Chiltern Hills zu ziehen. Hier genießt sie glücklich und ungehindert ihr neues Leben, das nur durch ein Geheimnis getrübt wird. Dieses Geheimnis - und ihre Berufung - ist die Hexerei, und d...

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A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine conv...

Both stimulating and engaging, these poems display an astonishing capacity for wit, rich observations, and the cadences of poetic language. Documenting the life of Sylvia Townsend Warner, these poems emphasize her gift for music while exploring life, communist sympathies, and above all, the anguish and liberation of her great love affair with fellow poet Valentine Ackland.

A spellbinding piece of historical fiction . . . spare, luminous . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page' Sunday Times'A magnificent recreation of the life of a medieval convent' Daily TelegraphTo become a nun in the fourteenth century was often a business transaction rather than a spiritual calling, it is small wonder, then, that the inhabitants of Oby, a Benedictine convent, are prey to worldly ambitions, frustrat...

As fresh and powerful today as it was when published in 1926' Guardian'This is the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle-class Englishwoman who politely declines to make the expected connection with the opposite sex and becomes a witch instead' John UpdikeAfter the death of her adored father, Laura 'Lolly' Willowes settles into her role of the 'indispensible' maiden aunt of the family. Two decades pass, the children are grown,...

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