Bertha Ley comes of age, inherits her father`s money & promptly marries a handsome, calm & unimaginative man. Bertha is wildly in love with Edward & believes she can be happy playing the role of a dutiful wife in their country home. But, intelligent & sensual, she quickly becomes bored by her oppressively conventional life, & finds her love for her husband slipping away. Originally rejected by publishers, Mrs Craddock was first published only on condition that certain `shocking` passages were removed. It was thirty years before the full text could be published. ...

Elegantly interweaving her characters` complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf`s ” Mrs Dalloway” continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time, space, madness & regret. This ” Penguin Classics” edition is edited by Stella Mc Nichol with an introduction & notes by Elaine Showalter. Past, present & future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, elegant & vivacious, is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh, & dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth`s rapidly-approaching adulthood. In another part of London, war veteran Septimus Smith is shell-shocked & on the brink of madness, slowly spiralling towards self-annihilation. Their experiences mingling, yet never quite meeting, Virginia Woolf masterfully portrays a serendipitous unity of inner lives, converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist, & the centre of ” The Bloomsbury Group”. This informal collective of artists & writers which included Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from ” Mrs Dalloway” (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel ” The Waves” (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism & biography, including the playfully subversive ” Orlando” (1928) & ”A Room of One`s Own” (1929) a passionate feminist essay. ...

` Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips.` On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party & remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock & on the brink of madness. Their days interweave & their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax in Woolf`s great novel of time, memory, war & the city. This is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design & pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin`s original covers. ...

Written in the same period as Mrs Dalloway these seven short stories show the author`s fascination with parties & with all the excitement, the fluctuations of mood & temper & the heightened emotions which surround these social occasions. ” Mrs Dalloway`s Party” is enchanting piece of work by one of our most acclaimed twentieth century writers. ...

The book is the story of an Anglo Indian community in 1960s Calcutta coming to terms with India taking its first few faltering steps towards democracy. Joan is a single parent whose son`s accidental discovery of the body of a young woman, gets her embroiled in the sinister activities of a maoist faction. The movement is bent on bringing a violent revolution to overturn the unfairness of caste, class, religion & privilege. The book evokes the rich multicultural but confused five hundred year heritage of the Anglo Indian community who feel abandoned by the British & unsure of their fellow Indians. You smell the sumptuous cuisine, feel the emergence of popular culture, recoil at the racism, despair at the bureaucracy & are aroused by the sexual tensions. Although the characters in the book are purely fictional, the background is based on real historical, national & world events of the day; the Naxalbari uprisings, President`s rule & the rise of democratic Marxism in India. The writing is in the genre of a popular political thriller. The author, an Anglo-Indian, is intimately familiar with the period & is keen to give this almost extinct, post-Raj community & authentic voice. The book will appeal to those interested in stories of South Asia, political events of the 1960s, the cross-over of English & Indian. It is the author`s intention to include a list of recipes & a glossary of the less familiar Anglo Indian words. ...

Having fled Rome & a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband`s shocking, years-long betrayal of her. What should she do now, & which way should she turn, in the emotional labyrinth where she has been trapped for so long? Reawakened by grief & the knowledge of having been grievously wronged, she determines to resume her youthful quest for freedom & independence. Soon Isabel must return to Italy & confront her husb&, & seek to break his powerful hold on her. But will she succeed in outwitting him, & securing her revenge? Mrs Osmond is a masterly novel of betrayal, corruption & moral ambiguity, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea. ...

Having fled Rome & a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband`s shocking, years-long betrayal of her. What should she do now, & which way should she turn, in the emotional labyrinth where she has been trapped for so long? Reawakened by grief & the knowledge of having been grievously wronged, she determines to resume her youthful quest for freedom & independence. Soon Isabel must return to Italy & confront her husb&, & seek to break his powerful hold on her. But will she succeed in outwitting him, & securing her revenge? Mrs Osmond is a masterly novel of betrayal, corruption & moral ambiguity, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea. ...

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric & endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection & snippets of gossip. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom & the Grim Reaper. Then one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unexpected friendship with Ludo, a handsome young writer, & learns that even the old can fall in love.. . ...

A compilation of 20 classic Mrs Pepperpot tales. Mrs Pepperpot can`t choose when she will shrink to the size of a pepperpot
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A collection of fourteen short stories featuring the amazing Mrs Pepperpot. Mrs Pepperpot can`t choose when she will shrink to the size of a pepperpot
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