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After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'She has a talent amounting to genius' John Updike Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Doña Ana, the woman he tried to seduce, will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Set in a rural eighteenth-century Spain ...Show more
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"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 UpdikeForty-seven-year-old Lolly Willowes is a conventional maiden aunt, an unpaid companion and babysi ...Show more
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she decides to break free and moves to a small Bedfordshire village. Here, happy and unfettered, she enjoys her ...Show more
Lolly Willowes (Little Clothbound Classics) by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and m ...Show more
Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
After three years on the remote tropical island of Fanua, Timothy Fortune, a missionary from London, has made little headway. The islanders show very little interest in Christianity and he has only a single convert: a boy, Lueli. As Mr Fortune's affections for both Lueli and his new island home deepen, ...Show more
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner; Philip Hensher (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ...Show more
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 t ...Show more
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' SARAH WATERS In memory of the wife who had once dishonoured and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded Oby - a twelfth-century convent in a hidden corner of Norfolk. Two centuries l ...Show more
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last nove ...Show more
The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Leaving her orphanage at sixteen, Sukey Bond finds employment as a servant in the remote New Easter Farm, deep within the Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with simple, gentle Eric, the son of the rector's wife. But when their relationship is discovered, they are swiftly separated. So begins Sukey' ...Show more
Winter in the Air by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a cafe before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend’s kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, ...Show more
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