Margaret Drabble

A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories

Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780547550404

@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
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A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories

Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780547737355

Famed UK novelist Margaret Drabble's complete short stories...more details
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A Summer Bird-Cage

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
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A Writer's Britain

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
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Angus Wilson - A Biography

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
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Angus Wilson

Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780749307950

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Arnold Bennett - A Biography

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
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Gates of Ivory The

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
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Jerusalem the Golden

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
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Natural Curiosity A

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
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Natural Curiosity

Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9781856955010

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Natural Curiosity

Margaret Drabble

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Peppered Moth The

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
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Peppered Moth The

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
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Peppered Moth The

Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780670894246

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Radiant Way The

Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780141033686

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
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Red Queen The

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
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Red Queen The

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
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Red Queen The

Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780670915248

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
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Sea Lady The

Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780141027456

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
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Sea Lady The

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
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Sea Lady The

Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780670916504

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Seven Sisters The

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
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Seven Sisters

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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SEVEN SISTERS

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
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SEVEN SISTERS

Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780670913367

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
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The Millstone

Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780156006194

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
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The Needle's Eye

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.
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The Needle's Eye

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The Needle's Eye

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
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The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

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
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The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

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
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The Peppered Moth

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
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The Peppered Moth

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
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The Red Queen

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
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The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy

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
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The Sea Lady

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
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The Sea Lady: A Late Romance

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
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The Seven Sisters

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
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The Seven Sisters

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
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The Witch of Exmoor

Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780753112397

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The Witch of Exmoor

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
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Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon

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
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Mansfield Park

Jane Austen;Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780451526298

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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen;Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780808576815

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On Wine and Hashish

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
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Stories

Doris May Lessing;Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780307269881

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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
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The English Literature Set: Consisting of the Oxford Chronology of English Literature and the Oxford Companion to English Literature

Michael Cox;Margaret Drabble

ISBN:9780195220407

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The Seven Sisters

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
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The Witch of Exmoor

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
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Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories A

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
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Gifts of War: Mini Modrn Classics The

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
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Millstone The

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
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Pattern in the Carpet

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
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Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws The

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
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Witch of Exmoor The

Drabble Margaret

ISBN:9780140261943

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Witch of Exmoor The

Drabble Margaret

ISBN:9780670872763

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Witch of Exmoor The

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