Barbara Pym

Una relazione sconveniente di Barbara Pym, 1987, La Tartaruga ROMANZI condizioni: OTTIME CONDIZIONI Note: Titolo: Una relazione sconveniente DI: Barbara Pym Editore: La tartaruga Anno: 1987 descrizione Libro: Ianthe Broome , figlia di un canonico e nipote di un pastore , è proprio il tipo che ci vuole per St. Basil , …

Caroline Grimstone, the bored young wife of an ambitious anthropologist, finds a cure for her tedium in reading to the elderly and becoming a party to her husband's purloining of an important manuscript

A Glass of Blessings is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1958. The title is taken from the poem The Pulley by George Herbert.

Less Than Angels is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1955. The novel is largely concerned with the activities of a group of anthropologists, and is to some extent based on the author's own experiences working at the African Institute in London. It is set in a period of social change which is subtly …

The Sweet Dove Died is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1978. The title is a quotation from a poem, "I Had a Dove", by John Keats. The novel was begun during the 1960s, after Pym's previous novel, An Unsuitable Attachment, had been rejected by several publishers. The Sweet Dove Died was also rejected, and …

Quartetto in autunno è un romanzo di Barbara Pym del 1977, il primo pubblicato dalla scrittrice inglese dopo quindici anni di rifiuti editoriali, sebbene fosse stata una romanziera di successo negli anni '50 e '60. Il romanzo fu finalista al Booker Prize.