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A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in a two month period during the late 1920s, A Compass Error suggests that at some key juncture the book's main character, Flavia, made a mistake that somehow blew her life off course, perhaps into a new sexual orientation.
A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One autumn in the late 1920s, Constanza boards a train in Italy en route to Brussels and a new marriage. With her is her young daughter Flavia. Through an odd incident Constanza makes a casual decision that changes both their lives.
A Favourite of the Gods and a Compass Error by Sybille Bedford; Daniel Mendelsohn (Preface by)
$38.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian p ...Show more
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
$39.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A Legacy" is the tale of two very different families, the Merzes and the Feldens. The Jewish Merzes are longstanding members of Berlin's haute bourgeoisie who count a friend of Goethe among their distinguished ancestors. Not that this proud legacy means much of anything to them anymore. Secure in their ...Show more
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds - the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural ...Show more
A Visit to Don Otavio - A Mexican Journey by Sybille Bedford; Bruce Chatwin (Introduction by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Travel
In the mid-1940s, Sybille Bedford set off from Grand Central Station for Mexico, accompanied by her friend E., a hamper of food and drink (Virginia ham, cherries, watercress, a flute of bread, Portuguese ros ), books, a writing board, and paper. Her resulting travelogue captures the violent beauty of th ...Show more
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford
$42.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful ...Show more
Quicksands by Sybille Bedford
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated in fiction and non-fiction what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this magnificent memoir, she takes readers from the Berlin of World War I, to the artists' set on the Cote d' Azur ...Show more
Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A friend of Aldous Huxley and of Elizabeth Jane Howard, whose own memoir Slipstream was hugely popular, novelist Sybille Bedford here tells of her life ? including World War I Berlin, the Cote D?Azur artist set of the 1920s and much more. ?Spellbinding . . . impressive . . . a testimony to the value and ...Show more
The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sybille Bedford
$12.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
The first full-scale literary trial in Britain's history - re-counted by the ever-charming and inimitable Sybille Bedford.
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