Quartet in Autumn

Literature & Fiction

PYM, Barbara

Contemporary

HarperCollins Canada, Limited

Excellent Women

Literary

Harpercollins Publisher

Quartet in autumn

1983 Perennial Library MASS MARKET PAPERBACK, 5th printing. Barbara Pym (No Fond Return of Love: A Novel). This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem - loneliness. Lovingly, poignantly, satirically and with much humour, Pym conducts us through their small lives and the facade they erect to defend themselves against the outside world. There is nevertheless an obstinate optimism in her characters, allowing them in their different ways to win through to a kind of hope. Barbara Pym's sensitive wit and artistry are at their most sparkling in "Quartet in Autumn". - Amazon

HarperCollins, Publishers

A Few Green Leaves / Barbara Pym.

Perennial Library/Harper & Row

This early novel by Barbara Pym captures the charm and folly of English middle-class life. The two title characters share a devoted friendship based on memories of Oxford school days, poetry and their neighbors' private affairs- all discussed over leisurely lunches. And they share a common goal: finding a suitable mate for Prudence.

Jane and Prudence

Harper and Row, Publishers

Paperback Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) (October 1983) Language: English

Less Than Angels / Jane and Prudence / A Glass of Blessings

HarperCollins (paper)

No Fond Return of Love

Dulcie Mainwaring's friend Viola is besotted by Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if she helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself is falling, just a little, for Aylwin.

Harper&Row

The Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Then, into their quiet lives comes a famous librarian, Nathaniel Mold, and a bishop from Africa, Theodore Grote - who each take to calling on the sisters for rather unsettling reasons.

Some tame gazelle

Perennial Library

This is Pym's poignant story of four elderly single people who work in the same office. Their work is their chief point of contact with each other and with the outside world. When the two women retire, the equilibrium of the quartet is upset. Quartet in Autumn is a gently compelling story of human dignity in the midst of hopelessness.

Genre Fiction

Perennial

Despite the banalities of modern life, a group of friends and acquaintances--including spinsters, widows, rectors, retirees, and a bearded intellectual and his wife--encounter history and nostalgia, romance and death

A Few Green Leaves

Harpercollins

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Quartet in Autumn

Excellent Women

Quartet in Autumn

A Few Green Leaves / Barbara Pym.

Jane and Prudence

Less Than Angels / Jane and Prudence / A Glass of Blessings

No Fond Return of Love

Some tame gazelle

Quartet in Autumn

A Few Green Leaves