Ferry: the Jerusalem Cat

Literature & Fiction

LASKI, Marghanita

Contemporary

Carlton Books, Limited

NY 1987 Facts on File. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 192pp., photo illustrations, cloth. VG in VG DJ.

From Palm to Pine: Rudyard Kipling Abroad

Sidgwich Jackson Ltd

The charming, childish wife of a successful lawyer, falls asleep one afternoon on her Victorian chaise longue, recently purchased in an antique shop, and awakes in the fetid atmosphere of an ugly, over-furnished room she has never seen before. This is the story of a trip backward in time in which a nostalgia for the quaint turns into a hideous nightmare.

Victorian Chaise Longue

Ballantine Books

'Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished France in order to trace a child lost five years before. The novel asks: is the child really his? And does he want him? These are questions you can take to be as metaphorical as you wish: the novel works perfectly well as straight narrative. It's extraordinarily gripping: it has the page-turning compulsion of a thriller while at the same time being written with perfect clarity and precision. 'Had it not got so nerve-wracking towards the end, I would have read it in one go. But Laski's understated assurance and grip is almost astonishing. She has got a certain kind of British intellectual down to a tee: part of the book's nail-biting tension comes from our fear that Hilary won't do something stupid. The rest of Little Boy Lost's power comes from the depiction of post-war France herself. This is haunting stuff.' 'When I picked up this 1949 reprint I offered it the tenderly indulgent regard I would any period piece,' wrote Nicholas Lezard in the Guardian. 'As it turned out, the book survives perfectly well on its own merits - although it nearly finished me. If you like a novel that expertly puts you through the wringer, this is the one.

Little Boy Lost (New Windmills)

Cresset Press, Inc.

Little Boy Lost

Literary

New Eng. Lib.

Everyday Ecstasy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Thames and Hudson

This is a scholarly and immensley readable account of Jane Austens life, her family, friends and surroundings. with dustjacket, 1969 clean copy

Jane Austen and Her World (Pictorial Biography)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Viking Press

George Eliot and her world

Narrates th life of the great novelist, showing her as a product of the upper-middle-class society of late-eighteenth-century England and noting her environment's impact on her work

Jane Austen (Literary Lives Series)

Thames&Hudson

Depicts the life of the Victorian novelist and discusses her literary concern with moral problems

George Eliot (Literary Lives)

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