The protagonists of these eleven short tales find themselves stripped of private illusions as they confront unusual situations

The Devastating Boys (Virago Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Taylor, Elizabeth

History & Criticism

Penguin??Books

Cassandra Dashwood, young and romantic, falls in love with Marion Vanbrugh, the bland widower who has employed her as governess to his daughter, Sophy

Palladian (Virago Modern Classics)

Literary

The Wedding Group

The Wedding Group [paperback] Taylor, Elizabeth [Dec 03, 1985]

Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. But they are young. All life still lies ahead. Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. And then Vesey returns, the worse for wear, and with him the love whose memory they have both sentimentally cherished, and even after so much has happened it cannot be denied. But things are not at all as they used to be. Love, it seems, is hardly designed to survive life. One of the finest twentieth-century English novelists, Elizabeth Taylor, like her contemporaries Graham Greene, Richard Yates, and Michelangelo Antonioni, was a connoisseur of the modern world’s forsaken zones. Her characters are real, people caught out by their own desires and decisions, and they demand our attention. The be-stilled suburban backwaters she sets out to explore shimmer in her books with the punishing clarity of a desert mirage.

A Game of Hide and Seek (Virago Modern Classics)

Penguin

A dozen stories deal with an unsuspecting alibi, a woman's long correspondence with a writer, young girls preparing for their first dance, and a troubled meeting between two ex-lovers

The Blush (Virago Modern Classics)

VIEW OF THE HARBOUR

A faded coastal resort comes to life when Tory, recently divorced, begins a passionate affair with her neighbour Robert, the local doctor. Meanwhile Beth, Robert's wife and Tory's best friend, continues to churn out successful melodramatic novels, oblivious to the relationship developing next door. But daughter Prudence is aware, and is appalled by Robert and Tory's treachery. The resolution of painful matters is conveyed with wit and compassion in this enchanting and devastatingly well-observed novel.

View of the Harbour (Virago Modern Classics)

This is a biography of mayor Richard J. Daley. It is the story of his rise from the working-class Irish neighbourhood of his childhood to his role as one of the most important figures in 20th century American politics.

American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

Biographies & Memoirs

Cohen, Adam

Historical

Little. Brown and Company

Back Bay Books

Recounts her transformation from screen goddess to overweight celebrity, discusses the courage and perseverance it took to regain her figure and self-esteem, and summarizes her personal diet and exercise system

ELIZABETH TAKES OFF: AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers

Review\nIt's always a treat to read Elizabeth Taylor. Mossy Trotter is a real gem. A delightfully mischievous boy living in those long-ago halcyon days when children played out all day, roaming commons, scavenging on rubbish tips and stamping in newly-laid tar.―Jacqueline Wilson\n'It's always a treat to read Elizabeth Taylor. Mossy Trotter is a real gem. A delightfully mischievous boy living in those long-ago halcyon days when children played out all day, roaming commons, scavenging on rubbish tips and stamping in newly-laid tar' JACQUELINE WILSON 
'We - that is, Herbert and I - want you, Mossy, to be our page-boy,' Miss Silkin said, staring hard at Mossy again, as if she were trying to imagine him dressed up, and with his hair combed.\nMossy went very red, and nearly choked on a piece of cake, and Selwyn laughed, and went on laughing, as if he had just heard the funniest joke of all his life. They both knew what being a page-boy meant. One of the boys at school - one of the very youngest ones - had had to be one, wearing velvet trousers and a frilled blouse.' 
When Mossy moves to the country, life is full of delights - trees to climb, woods to explore and, best of all, the marvellous dump to rummage through. But every now and then his happiness is disturbed - chiefly by his mother's meddling friend, Miss Silkin. And a dreaded event casts a shadow over even the sunniest of days - being a page-boy at her wedding. 
In her only children's book, Elizabeth Taylor perfectly captures the temptations, confusion and terrors of a mischievous boy, and just how illogical, frustrating and inconsistent adults are!

Mossy Trotter

Children's Books

Classics

Virago Press Ltd.

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The Devastating Boys (Virago Modern Classics)

Palladian (Virago Modern Classics)

The Wedding Group

A Game of Hide and Seek (Virago Modern Classics)

The Blush (Virago Modern Classics)

View of the Harbour (Virago Modern Classics)

American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

ELIZABETH TAKES OFF: AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Mossy Trotter