This Sweet Sickness: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA

Literary

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Crampton Hodnet (Virago Modern Classics)

Barbara Pym

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Elizabeth Mavor

The Sleeping Beauty (Virago Modern Classics)

Taylor, E.

Contemporary

Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)

CHRISTINA STEAD

The people of Mount Salus, Mississippi always felt good about Judge McKelva. He was a quiet, solid reassuring figure, just as a judge should be. Then, ten years after his first wife's death, he marries the frivolous young Wanda Fay. No-one can understand his action, not least his beloved daughter, Laurel, who finds it hard to accept the new bride. It is only some years later, when circumstance brings her back to her childhood home, that Laurel stirs old memories and comes to understand the peculiarities of her upbringing, and the true relationship between her parents and herself. The Optimist's Daughter is a reflective, poignant novel of independence and love, for which Eudora Welty, one of America's gretest contemporary Southern writers, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

The Optimist's Daughter

EUDORA WELTY

LUMINOUS ISLE

Eliot Bliss

<p>He saw his responsibilities as his rights; he believed in the illusion, 'This is mine', as children believed in Father Christmas; not knowing yet that nobody was yours, that your loves, flawed by belief in ownership, were not loves at all.'Charismatic newspaper tycoon J.G Baron is lauded as a tough-minded but fair businessman. His favoured employees, invited to his country house at weekends, are envied; his children 'still rich and safe and spoiled', appear to lead a charmed existence. The success of his reputation is such that Baron believes it himself. Only Celia, his eldest daughter, knows that beneath this faade her father weaves a thread of tyranny which ensnares and damages all who come close to him- his son Tobias, whose affections disguise his sense of inferiority; Liz who struggles to meet her father's perfection; the upright Anthony Carey whom Baron regards as a touchstone of truth, and even Harry Levitt, himself a seasoned dissembler. For those who are shadowed by a man whose power rests on hypocrisy and self-deceit, inevitably become tarnished by the same qualities.</p>

The Winged Horse

Pamela Frankau

Classics

MIGHTY AND THEIR FALL (Virago Modern Classics)

Ivy Compton-Burnett

<p>Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a Dionysic revel and spending his days in a mortuary - is the anti-hero at the heart of this novel.</p>

Several Perceptions

CARTER, ANGELA

Romance

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