The Diary of a Provincial Lady
$28.67
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
25 June 2014
Summary
The much-loved comic masterpiece of domestic life, new to Penguin Modern Classics with an introduction by Rachel Johnson.
“January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better. I reply that it has gone. Then why, he asks, do I look like that? Feel that life is wholly unendurable, and decide madly to get a new hat.”
It’s not easy being a Provincial Lady in Devonshire in the 1920s, juggling a grumpy husband, mischievous …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141191812 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141191813 |
| Author: | E.M. Delafield |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 25 June 2014 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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I finished the book in one sitting, leaving the children unbathed, dogs unwalked, a husband unfed, and giving alternate cries of joy and recognition throughout
I re-read, for the nth time, E.M. Delafield’s dry, caustic Diary of a Provincial Lady, and howled with laughter – India Knight
She converts the small and familiar dullness of life into laughter * The Times *
I finished the book in one sitting, leaving the children unbathed, dogs unwalked, a husband unfed, and giving alternate cries of joy and recognition throughout – Jilly Cooper
A Pooterish masterpiece of 20th-century humour – Christopher Fowler
In the pages that follow is laid out the best of British womanhood, and you will fall in love with a capable, funny, clever, and never cloying woman … EM Delafield has provided us with a faithful and funny and lasting record of having it all at a time when the concept was so alien that it didn’t even exist – Rachel Johnson
About The Author
E.M. Delafield
Widely regarded as one of the funniest English authors and an heir to Jane Austen, E.M. Delafield was born in Sussex in 1890. She took the name Delafield to distinguish herself from her mother (De la Pasture), also a novelist, and wrote over 30 books which could be ‘as laugh-out-loud funny as PG Wodehouse’ before her death in 1943.
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