Author: Margaret Kennedy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1946022306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"Originally published in 1953 by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London"--Title page verso.
Troy Chimneys
Author: Margaret Kennedy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1946022306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"Originally published in 1953 by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London"--Title page verso.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1946022306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"Originally published in 1953 by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London"--Title page verso.
Troy chimneys, by margaret kennedy
Author-title Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
The Ladies of Lyndon
Author: Margaret Kennedy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Debutantes
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Debutantes
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Keeping Up Appearances
Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Daisy and Daphne, half-sisters, are staying with a family of English 'intelligentsia' on holiday in the Mediterranean. Daisy - shy, insecure and working-class - conceals her 'shameful' work as an author of 'women's fiction' and a journalist with a popular newspaper. Daphne - attractive, confident and sophisticated - is approved of by all, and she and Raymond, the elder son, fall in love (as does Daisy with him). Back in London, the sisters resume normal life, Daisy visiting her 'common' but loving family and Daphne seeing Raymond, who proposes marriage, and is accepted - on condition the engagement is kept secret, to Raymond's consternation. As tension mounts, the author reveals that Daphne and Daisy are actually different facets of one person, and that Raymond, in accepting the sophisticated Daphne, will have to accept Daisy's lesser qualities as well. Daisy/Daphne feels she cannot afford to divulge her origins or let him and his cultured family meet her brash, 'common' mother, and agonises over this. But her determined mother decides to see her daughter's betrothed for herself, and the truth is out. Raymond rather likes mother, but his beloved's prevarications and duplicity have somewhat cooled his passion; will the engagement triumph, or, if not, who will end it?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Daisy and Daphne, half-sisters, are staying with a family of English 'intelligentsia' on holiday in the Mediterranean. Daisy - shy, insecure and working-class - conceals her 'shameful' work as an author of 'women's fiction' and a journalist with a popular newspaper. Daphne - attractive, confident and sophisticated - is approved of by all, and she and Raymond, the elder son, fall in love (as does Daisy with him). Back in London, the sisters resume normal life, Daisy visiting her 'common' but loving family and Daphne seeing Raymond, who proposes marriage, and is accepted - on condition the engagement is kept secret, to Raymond's consternation. As tension mounts, the author reveals that Daphne and Daisy are actually different facets of one person, and that Raymond, in accepting the sophisticated Daphne, will have to accept Daisy's lesser qualities as well. Daisy/Daphne feels she cannot afford to divulge her origins or let him and his cultured family meet her brash, 'common' mother, and agonises over this. But her determined mother decides to see her daughter's betrothed for herself, and the truth is out. Raymond rather likes mother, but his beloved's prevarications and duplicity have somewhat cooled his passion; will the engagement triumph, or, if not, who will end it?
Catholic World
The Constant Nymph
Author: Margaret Kennedy
Publisher: S.B. Gundy
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A teenage girl falls in love with a family friend, who eventually marries her cousin. The two girls show mutual jealousy over their common love for the man.
Publisher: S.B. Gundy
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A teenage girl falls in love with a family friend, who eventually marries her cousin. The two girls show mutual jealousy over their common love for the man.
The Constant Novelist
Author: Violet Powell
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Feast
Author: Margaret Kennedy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1946022519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist." —Anita Brookner Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster. Everyone else makes a narrow escape. As the survivors tell their stories, the events of the previous week are revealed, and a parade of sins exposed. Gluttony, Lecherousness, Sloth, Pride, Covetousness, Envy and Wrath: all are in residence at Pendizack Manor, and as the day of the disaster creeps closer, it becomes clear that who’s spared and who’s lost might not be as arbitrary as first assumed. A modern upstairs-downstairs comedy with an old-fashioned morality play tucked away inside, The Feast is sly, kaleidoscopic, and utterly ingenious, a novel that only Margaret Kennedy could have written.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1946022519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist." —Anita Brookner Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster. Everyone else makes a narrow escape. As the survivors tell their stories, the events of the previous week are revealed, and a parade of sins exposed. Gluttony, Lecherousness, Sloth, Pride, Covetousness, Envy and Wrath: all are in residence at Pendizack Manor, and as the day of the disaster creeps closer, it becomes clear that who’s spared and who’s lost might not be as arbitrary as first assumed. A modern upstairs-downstairs comedy with an old-fashioned morality play tucked away inside, The Feast is sly, kaleidoscopic, and utterly ingenious, a novel that only Margaret Kennedy could have written.
The Constant Nymph
Author: Margaret Kennedy
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144819203X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his 'Circus' of assorted children, admirers and a slatternly mistress. The family and their home life may be chaotic, but visitors fall into an enchantment, and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away. When Sanger dies, his Circus must break up and each find a more conventional way of life. But fourteen-year-old Teresa is already deeply in love: for her, the outside world holds nothing but tragedy.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144819203X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his 'Circus' of assorted children, admirers and a slatternly mistress. The family and their home life may be chaotic, but visitors fall into an enchantment, and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away. When Sanger dies, his Circus must break up and each find a more conventional way of life. But fourteen-year-old Teresa is already deeply in love: for her, the outside world holds nothing but tragedy.