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The Sleeping Beauty by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A subtle love story by one of the most accomplished writers of the 20th century.
The Soul Of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
' "Here I am!" Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs. For a second, Meg felt disloyalty. It occurred to her of a sudden that Flora was always saying that, and that it was in the tone of one giving a lovely present. She was bestowing herself.' The soul of kindness is what Flora believes herself ...Show more
The Story of the Amulet (Psammead #3) by Edith Nesbit
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Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Psammead Series, Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Street by Ann Petry
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage and winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019. 'Ann Petry's first novel, The Street, was a literary event in 1946, praised and translated around the world - the first book by a black woman to sell more than a million copies . . ...Show more
The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Jane Gardam (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes u ...Show more
The Weather In The Streets (Virago Modern Classic) by Rosamond Lehmann; Carmen Callil (Introduction by); Elizabeth Day (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'A truly great book. It is beautifully written, shrewdly observed and deftly crafted, but the novel's real concern is what it means for a woman to live an authentic life' Elizabeth Day A chance encounter with the man who enchanted her as a teenager leads Olivia Curtis into to a forbidden love affair. H ...Show more
The Wedding by Dorothy West; Diana Evans (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by DIANA EVANS 'Timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender' Emma Garman, Paris Review Set on a bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the story of life in the ...Show more
The Wedding Group by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'You know,' Midge began, and paused. She was rather taken aback, and could not at once think of anything to say. 'Perhaps there's nothing so dangerous as having led a sheltered life.'Cressy has grown up in a world of women, presided over by her eccentric, artistic grandfather Harry Bretton. Rebelling ag ...Show more
Transit by Anna Seghers; Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY STUART EVERS: 'A genuine, fully fledged masterpiece of the twentieth century; one that remains just as terrifyingly relevant and truthful in the twenty-first'An existential, political, literary thriller first published in 1944, that explores the plight of the refugee with extraordinary com ...Show more
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann's All-Time Pop-Culture Classic The perfect gift for any Valley fan or your favorite Doll, featuring a new cover design - introduction by Simon Doonan - never-before-seen archival material - an essay from Jackie, "My Book Is Not Dirty " At a time when wom ...Show more
Wave Me Goodbye - Stories of the Second World War by Anne Boston (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This collection of short stories written by women when war was a way of life includes some of the finest women writers of that generation. War had traditionally been seen as a masculine occupation but these stories show how women were equal if different participants. Here, war is less about progress on ...Show more
Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A witty romp through English Country-house life at its most delightfully absurd. At Rushwater House in West Barsetshire, Lady Emily Leslie and her family are entertaining an assortment of house guests, hangers-on, and French monarchists. Amid a perfect welter of rapturous embraces and moonlight madness, ...Show more