Barbara Pym

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Title: An Academic Question: Description:
"An exquisitevly wry and amusing novel" The Literary Review.

Title: Crampton Hodnet: Description:
A brilliant example of youthful high comedy, rich in period detail, Crampton hodnet provides a fascinating glimpse of Oxford in the 1930s.

Title: Civil To Strangers And Other Writings: Description:
Cassandra marsh-Gibbon and her self-absorbed husband Adam, a young couple from Up Callow in Shropshire. Both the village and cassandras marriage are thrown into upheaval when a mysterious hungarian moves into town.

Title: A Very Private Eye: Diaries, Letters And Notebooks: Description:
The diaries letters and notebooks of Barbara Pym. Edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym. All her notes taken over 48 years, from her Oxford days in the early thirties to her death in 1980-makes a unique Autobiography.

Title: Jane And Prudence (a Panther Book): Description:
Classic territory for Barbara Pym. She writes with all her usual wit and poignancy to produce a searching comedy of marvellous richness and style.

Title: Some Tame Gazelle (a Panther Book): Description:
Perhaps only Barbara Pym amongst modern writers could make so a genteel world as she describes here so beautifully comic and yet so powerfully true to the experience of everyone.

Title: Quartet In Autumn: Description:
Combining an acute eye for the eccentricities of every day life with her unique talent for illuminating human frailties, she has created a world with is both extraordinary and totally familiar.

Title: A Few Green Leaves (a Panther Book): Description:
A beautifully written, very delicate comedy.

Title: No Fond Return Of Love: Description:
Here, Barbara Pym, has given us as haunting and subtle an autumnal comedy about love as Jane Austen`s Persuasion.

Title: An Unsuitable Attachment: Description:
Set in a quite ordinary North London Parish, with warmth and a dazzling deep interest in eveyday life-brimming over with high comedy for which she is famous.

Title: The Sweet Dove Died: Description:
Exquisite comedy about an amorous antique dealer-his good looking nephew James and the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice.

Title: Less Than Angels: Description:
Handsome anthropologist, Tom Mallow, runs into trouble when he tries to choose between the soft-hearted Catherine Oliphant and a more recent conquest, Deidre Swan. The author was chosen in 1977 as one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century by Phillip Larkin and Lord David Cecil.