@lt;DIV@gt;@lt;P@gt;Margaret Drabble's novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique brilliance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:227
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9781447410379
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable...more details Format:Paperback Pages:214
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780500514931
The love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman. Here...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:288
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780571253715
Angus Wilson was a critic, lecturer and man of letters. This biography traces the influences of his bizarrely extended family, his years as a librarian at the British Museum - interrupted by a grim spell in the code-breaking huts at Bletchley Park - and his unexpected liberation as a writer....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:760
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780571255092
A biography of Margaret Drabble - a man whose most famous achievement was to re-create, in such novels as "The Old Wives' Tale" and "Clayhanger"...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:434
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780141033822
Two years ago novelist Stephen Cox vanished to the east. There had been postcards, then silence: now Liz has received this strange parcel of jottings...more details Format:Paperback Pages:480
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780141197272
Brought up in a stifling, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and travels to London. There...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780141033693
'What I do suffer from is curiosity'. Liz, Alix and Esther are old friends whose lives continue to cross and uncross. As the years pass, they are more than ever disposed to question...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780140297164
It is 1905, and Bessie is a small child living in a South Yorkshire mining town. Unusually gifted, she sits quietly and studies hard, waiting for the day when she can sit the Cambridge entrance exam and escape the way of life her ancestors have never even thought to question. At the other end of the century her granddaughter...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780670894000
A portrait of four generations of one family, this story explores themes of inheritance, DNA, the individual's place in history and fate. It spans from Bessie Bawtry...more details Format:Hardback Pages:400
Twenty-five years ago Liz, Alix and Esther were leading lights at Cambridge. Now they meet as old friends at a glittering New Year's Eve party to welcome in the 1980s. It is the dawn of the Thatcher era...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780141018164
200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:252
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780670915231
200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780670916498
Two distinguished guests are travelling separately towards a ceremony where they will meet for the first time for three decades. Both are apprehensive...more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780141010199
When Candida Wilton arrives alone in London, divorced and rejected and without much money, she is filled with a strange sense of excitement. What can happen...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9781417706389
When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room...more details
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780670913350
When Candida Wilton arrives alone in London, divorced and rejected and without much money, she is filled with a strange sense of excitement. What can happen...more details Format:Hardback Pages:320
From the author of "The Peppered Moth", this is a story of one woman starting over. In a world of change, where a computer can become a confidante...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman's decision to become a mother....more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780156029353
Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Yet at one time she had been notorious-her name constantly in the news. Now...more details Format:Paperback Pages:427
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780141197289
Simon Camish is an embittered, timid barrister, too busy with his own problems to take note of Rose Vassiliou across a dinner party table. But only a few years before...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:416
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780547241449
"The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws" is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:353
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780547386096
"The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws" is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games...more details Format:Paperback Pages:353
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780156007191
In the early 1900s, Bessie Bawtry, a small child with big notions, lives in a South Yorkshire mining town in England. Precocious and refined in a land of little ambition and much mining grime...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780151005215
Bessie Bawtry is a young girl living in the early 1900s in Breaseborough, a mining town in South Yorkshire, England. Unusually gifted, she longs to escape a life burdened by unquestioned tradition. She studies patiently...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:384
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780151011063
Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a memoir by a Korean crown princess, written more than two hundred years ago...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:332
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780156032704
Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul...more details Format:Paperback Pages:334
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780151012633
This is the story of Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, who spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. As they journey back to Ornemouth to receive honorary degrees from a new university there--Humphrey on the train...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:345
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780156034265
Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. Now, as they journey back to receive honorary degrees from a new university there--Humphrey on the train...more details Format:Paperback Pages:345
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780156028752
When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room...more details Format:Paperback Pages:307
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780141197296
Candida Wilton has been ignored by her husband and children for years, before being displaced by a younger woman. Moving to London, alone, divorced and without much money...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780156006040
In a "profoundly moving, intellectually acute" novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is "as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh" (Los Angeles Times)...more details Format:Paperback Pages:264
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Jane Austen;Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780140431025
These three short works show Jane Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. The early epistolary novel Lady Susan depicts an unscrupulous coquette...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Charles Baudelaire;Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9781843916086
Initially composed for newspaper publication and inspired by Thomas De Quincey's "Confessions of an Opium Eater," Charles Baudelaire's intriguing essays take a remarkably stark look at the use and effects of drink and drugs. Along the way he asserts the ambivalence of memory...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:112
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Doris May Lessing;Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780307269881
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) This wide-ranging collection of the stories by the renowned Nobel Laureate--spanning more than two decades of her astonishing career--highlights her singular gifts for portraying the complex lives of men and women in a modern...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:655
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Margaret Drabble;Drabble
ISBN:9780151007400
Candida Wilton--a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters--moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Candida is not exactly destitute. So...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:320
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Margaret Drabble;Clive Swift
ISBN:9780753101506
Freida Haxby Palmer, writer, intellectual, and the witch of the title of this bristling social satire, is a splendid, classic British eccentric. The rest of the characters are haunted by their past...more details Format:Hardcover
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Drabble Margaret
ISBN:9780141196046
Novelist, critic and biographer, Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. This collection reveals her brilliance in the art of the short story...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Drabble Margaret
ISBN:9780141195957
One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Margaret Drabble is an unmatched observer of postwar English lives, portraying social change...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:112
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Drabble Margaret
ISBN:9780141041728
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Drabble Margaret
ISBN:9781843546207
A beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw puzzle and the part it has played in its distinguished author's life....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:384
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Drabble Margaret
ISBN:9781843546191
James Boswell described the 'innocent soothing relief from melancholy' of playing draughts, and Margaret Drabble – among countless others – has found comparable solace from assembling jigsaws. In The Pattern in the Carpet she tells the history of this uniquely British form of meditation...more details Format:Hardback Pages:384