Angel (Virago Modern Classics)
Price
$13.48
Format
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Virago UK
Publication Date
New edition (April 1, 2006
ISBN-13
978-1844083077
Dimensions
5 x 0.69 x 7.7 inches
Weight
9.2 ounces
Description
Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning point in one's own experience― Elizabeth Bowen One of the most underrated novelists of the twentieth century― Antonia Fraser Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all― Anne Tyler I envy those readers who are coming to her work for the first time. Theirs will be an unexpected pleasure― Paul Bailey Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) was born and educated in Reading. After leaving school she worked as a governess and later in a library. She lived much of her married life in the village of Penn in Buckinghamshire.
Features & Highlights
- Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year-old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House. After reading
- The Lady Irania,
- publishers Brace and Gilchrist are certain the novel will be a success, in spite of—and perhaps because of—its overblown style. But they are curious as to who could have written such a book.
