A classic comedy of manners from Barbara Pym, the acclaimed author of Quartet in Autumn, Jane and Prudence and Excellent Women
Barbara Pym Ordre des livres (chronologique)
2 juin 1913 – 11 janvier 1980
Les romans de Barbara Pym sont célébrés pour leur subtile ironie et leur style exquis, offrant des aperçus profonds dans la danse complexe des coutumes sociales et des relations humaines. Sous la surface de la vie apparemment ordinaire des villages et des banlieues, Pym découvre habilement les désirs cachés et les désespoirs silencieux de ses personnages. Son travail adopte souvent le déguisement d'une comédie douce, mais il est imprégné d'un courant sous-jacent profond, souvent tragique, qui explore les motivations qui animent nos vies. La voix distinctive de Pym capture les nuances de la connexion humaine avec une précision et un esprit remarquables.
A unique autobiography of Barbara Pym, celebrated author of Quartet in Autumn, includes an introduction by Jilly Cooper
Civil To Strangers
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
This volume includes an early novel and three novellas, which were discovered and published after Barbara Pym's death in 1980.
No Fond Return Of Love
- 304pages
- 11 heures de lecture
'One of her very best - comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself' Shirley Hazzard
Virago Modern Classics: No Fond Return of Love
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself, however ridiculous it may be, is falling, just a little, for Aylwin. Once life's little humiliations are played out, maybe love will be returned, and fondly, after all.
Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less. Her interest wanders to the nearby Anglo-catholic church, where at last she can neglect her comfortable household in the more serious-minded company of three unmarried priests, and, of course, Piers Longridge, a man of an unfathomably different character altogether.
"Ianthe, la demoiselle comme il faut, travaille dans une bibliothèque et le rythme routinier sera rompu par un beau jeune homme qui semble s'intéresser beaucoup à elle. Leur "affaire" constitue l'intrigue étonnante de ce roman où les personnages, célibataires endurcis ou amoureux transis, sont décrits avec la plus grande minutie.
An Academic Question
- 224pages
- 8 heures de lecture
A delightful comedy of manners, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym
Quartet in autumn is the story of four people in late middle-age who work in the same office and who all suffer from loneliness. Poignantly and with humour, Pym takes us through their small lives and the facades they erect to defend themselves against the outside world.
