'A PELICAN IN THE WILDERNESS: HERMITS, SOLITARIES AND RECLUSES'

COLEGATE, Isabel

Religion & Spirituality

Counterpoint

As England reels from the turmoil of the Depression, young Orlando King begins a rapid rise in London society, business, and politics

The Orlando Trilogy

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

this penguin edition contains the first three novels by british novelist, isabel colegate. "the blackmailer" (1958), dealt with the decline of the english aristocracy & the disintegration of class structures in the aftermath of the first world war, a theme to which she was to return in subsequent works, including "a man of power" (1960) & "the great occasion" (1962). neither of the latter two of these novels is in print in any other format. colgate went on to publish "the shooting party" in 1980 to international claim. it was made into the classic film of the same name in 1985 starring james mason, john gielgud & edward fox.

Three Novels: The Blackmailer, A Man of Power, The Great Occasion

Tells the stories of a beautiful, but eccentric girl, an American scientist who travels on an expedition to Siberia, and a bright young man who fails to live up to his promise

A Glimpse of Sion's Glory and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Biographer Catherine Hillary, commissioned to study Neil Campion, a World War I flying ace and politician uncovers his reputed Nazi associations and finds that she must sort through his and her own troubled pasts

Deceits of Time (King Penguin)

A portrayal of the British upper classes before World War I follows the lives of two men and their rivalry in the hunt and in the drawing room

The Shooting Party

Literary

It is 1913 - just prior to England's entry into World War I - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. A group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving assuredly through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are a dazzlingly obtuse and brilliantly decorative finale of an era.

Penguin Classics Shooting Party (Penguin Modern Classics)

Classics

Penguin Classic

It is the autumn of 1913, and Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest shoot of the season. An army of servants and gamekeepers has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual of the house and hunt. The gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowship and good-humored sporting rivalry. The fashionable ladies are exchanging the latest gossip. Everything about this splendid weekend would seem a perfect affirmation of the privileges and certainties of Edwardian country life. And yet, as Isabel Colegate so elegantly dramatizes, it is not. The social and moral code of this set is under siege from within and without. Competition beyond the bounds of sportsmanship, revulsion at the slaughter of animals, anger at the inequities of class — these and other forces are about to rise up and challenge the social peace, a peace that can hold only a brief while longer.

The shooting party

H.Hamilton

Tells the stories of a beautiful, but eccentric girl, an American scientist who travels on an expedition to Siberia, and a bright young man who fails to live up to his promise

A Glimpse of Sion's Glory

Contemporary

VIKING

This novel underlines the theme of loyalty, to one's class, to one's country, to one's ideals and to the truth. Catherine Hillary is commissioned to write the biography of a dead politician and in the process she gains a perspective on her own life, but at some cost. Iasabel Colegate is author of "The Shooting Party". "Deceits of Time" will be one of Hamish Hamilton's submissions for the Booker Prize.

Deceits of Time

Hamish Hamilton

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