Summer Will Show
$38.97
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2009
Summary
Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper Tory fashion.
Then tragedy strikes- the children die, and Sophia, in despair, finds her way to Paris, arriving just in time for the revolution of 1848. Before long she has formed the unlikeliest…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590173169 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1590173163 |
| Author: | Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 365g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
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Forget another adaption of ‘Emma’: I want to see this on Sunday night telly… It’s a wildly leftist novel of love, war and death; Townsend Warner chucks the whole lot into her simmering story, but it remains skillfully crafted. Brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time, this is clearly way too hot for Sunday night drama to handle. Guardian
About The Author
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a devoted member of the Communist Party. Her many books include Mr. Fortune’s Maggot and Lolly Willows, The Corner that Held Them, and Kingdoms of Elfin.
Claire Harman’s first book, a biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner, was published in 1989 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She has since published biographies of Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006.
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