Angela Thirkell

Love at All Ages (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From a starry-eyed teenager to an elderly clergyman, it seems no one is immune to romance in the county of Barsetshire... In the long-running and beloved series that brings Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire into the mid-twentieth century and offers "a fresh, original, witty interpretation of England's social history," the quirky inhabitants and well-bred families of the county find themselves navigating the delights and uncertainties of love ( The New York Times). Lady Gwendolyn Harcourt, no spring chicken, is courted by the aging Reverend Oriel of Harefield. And on the other end of the generational spectrum, fresh-faced sixteen-year-old Lavinia Merton may have a future marriage prospect in her singing partner Ludovic, Lord Mellings... "Thirkell's gently meandering account of the diversions of Barsetshire society leaves nothing to be desired." - New York Herald Tribune "To read [Thirkell] is to get the feeling of knowing Barsetshire folk as well as if one had been born and bred in the county." - Kirkus Reviews

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504091114
• Artikelnr.: 69816495

Autorenporträt

Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was a British author whose ability to produce one book a year, every year, and set in that year blurred the lines between novelist and social historian. Like so many of the writers that she admired-Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Eliot-Thirkell shared their X-ray vision: an unmatched ability to assess the hypocrisies, desires, and prejudices of her characters and, better still, play them for laughs. Her biggest literary project, the Barsetshire Chronicles, consists of twenty-nine novels, each acting as another slice of English country life; a utopian vision of bucolic countryside, grand manors, and village fêtes.