Virago Modern Classics: Crampton Hodnet

Virago Modern Classics: Crampton Hodnet
Barbara Pym, Louis de Bernieres
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Paperback
h202 x 127mm - 288pg
2 Aug 2012 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781844087211
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Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to young academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. Anthea's father, however, an Oxford don, is tired of his marriage and carrying on in the most unseemly fashion with his student Barbara Bird - they have been spotted together at the British Museum! Miss Doggett isn't aware, though, that under her very own roof the lodging curate has proposed to her paid companion Miss Morrow. She wouldn't approve of that at all.
An entertainment that is funny, poignant, observant and truthful -- Louis de Bernieres Pym at her absolute funniest. Daily Mail The rare charm of Crampton Hodnet is in the glimpse it offers of Pym's imagination as it pauses for a moment in perfect understanding of a character. That sympathy stretches beyond the horizon of comedy Time
Barbara Pym (1913-80) was born in Shropshire and educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. When in 1977 the TLS asked critics to name the most underrated authors of the past 75 years, only one was named twice (by Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil): Barbara Pym. Her novels are characterised by what Anne Tyler has called 'the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life'.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781844087211
Published: 2 Aug 2012
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback
Height: 202mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 288
Dewey: 823.914

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