Name: Excellent Women (Penguin Classics)
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Author: Pym, Barbara ; Wilson, A. N.
ISBN: 9780143104872

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Barbara Pym

Introduction by

A. N. Wilson

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.5 x 13.1 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN

014310487X

ISBN13

9780143104872

Synopsis "Excellent Women (Penguin Classics) "

"The finest introduction to Barbara Pym" (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen One of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman's daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those "excellent women," the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors--anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door--the novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires.

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