A View of the Harbour

Zusatztext Her best novels- At Mrs. Lippincote's (1945)! A View of the Harbour (1947)! A Game of Hide and Seek (1951)-are! in spite of their prim titles! funny! savage and full of loneliness and suppressed emotion. For her characters! as for their author! propriety is a survival mechanism! a way of keeping the show on the road Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) is increasingly recognised as one of the best British writers of the twentieth century. She wrote her first book, At Mrs Lippincote's , during the war while her husband was in the Royal Air Force, and this was followed by eleven further novels and a children's book, Mossy Trotter . Her acclaimed short stories appeared in publications including Vogue , the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaa r. Klappentext An unforgettable picture of love, loss and the keeping up of appearances by an author who is increasingly recognised as one of the best British writers of the 20th century.An unforgettable picture of love, loss and the keeping up of appearances by an author who is increasingly recognised as one of the best British writers of the 20th century. Zusammenfassung An unforgettable picture of love, loss and the keeping up of appearances by an author who is increasingly recognised as one of the best British writers of the 20th century.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Taylor
• Assisted by: Sarah Waters (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.04.2006
• EAN: 9781844083220
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-322-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 199 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; VMC; VMC; Virago Modern Classics; VMC Designer Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary