Margaret Drabble
Author
Language
English
Description
"A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England, which is 'her last love'. She wants to 'see it all before she dies'. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A single-volume compilation of the author's previously uncollected short works offers insight into her use of irony, female friendships, and personal passions and is complemented by an introduction that places her works in a context of her life and novels.
11) Mansfield park
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Jane Austen's third published novel after Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice? young Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt? Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram? at Mansfield Park. Raised among her four cousins? Fanny, the poor relation, often goes unobserved in the household? making her a unique observer of the ethics? morals? attitudes and behavior of English society.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 329
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In three classic works, a time traveler finds a strange new world in the year 802,700; a scientist attempts to fulfill his evil desires after becoming invisible; and an astronomer fights for survival after Martians invade Earth.