The Brandons: A Virago Modern Classic
Author(s): Angela Thirkell
The irresistible Brandons, their friends, and their servants are full of youthful nonsense and middle-aged folly. People will fall in love with the wrong person, and all are determined to misunderstand each other. Like Barbara Pym, E. F. Benson, and Jane Austen herself, Angela Thirkell has created a small world of her own in the English countryside. Calf love, village affairs, and literary effort are her nominal subjects; but her real interest is people, at their imperfect best.
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Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself -- Alexander McCall Smith
Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) wrote many works of fiction and non-fiction, including twenty-nine 'Barsetshire' novels, which won her great popularity and acclaim. The first of these, High Rising, was published in 1933. Her relatives included Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her godfather was JM Barrie. She was twice married and had four children.
General Fields
- :
- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Virago Press
- : 0.263084
- : 01 June 2014
- : 197mm X 129mm X 25mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 June 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : 384
- : 823.912
- : English
- : Paperback
- : Angela Thirkell