White Sand and Grey Sand

Informationen zum Autor Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard . Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) was an immediate success and won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. Among her works are Nightingale Wood (1938), The Bachelor (1944), Westwood (1946), and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Stella Gibbons died in 1989. Klappentext On the dunes west of Bruges, two-year-old Ydette is found wrapped in a blanket and taken back to live in a small grocer's shop. Opposite the shop live the wealthy van Roeslaere family and their son, Adriaan, a spoilt boy, plagued by ugliness. Zusammenfassung On the dunes west of Bruges, two-year-old Ydette is found wrapped in a blanket and taken back to live in a small grocer's shop. Opposite the shop live the wealthy van Roeslaere family and their son, Adriaan, a spoilt boy, plagued by ugliness.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stella Gibbons, Gibbons Stella
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.08.2011
• EAN: 9780099529385
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952938-5
• Pagine: 320
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Capolavori fino al 1945; FICTION / Literary, Belgium, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century, Bruges