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Olivia Manning

Birth date: March 02, 1908

Died: July 23, 1980

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Olivia Manning's Books

Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy - Olivia Manning

Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy - Olivia Manning, Rachel Cusk

Artist Among The Missing - Olivia Mannin...

The Battle Lost and Won - Olivia Manning

Best for Winter: A Selection from Twenty-Five Years of Winter's Tales - Susan Hill, Nadine Gordimer, Alan Sillitoe, V.S. Pritchett, Sylvia Plath, Iris Murdoch, Rebecca West, Shirley Hazzard, Doris Lessing, Anthony Powell, Fay Weldon, Muriel Spark, Kingsley Amis, William Trevor, Malcolm Lowry, Jean Rhys, Patrick White, Frank O'Connor, Harold Ac

The Great Fortune - Olivia Manning, Harriet Walter

Winter's Tales 15 - A.D. MacLean, James Aldridge, Frank Tuohy, G.F. Green, Margaret Laurence, Bernard Malamud, Olivia Manning, Sylvia Plath, Kit Reed, Robert Rushmore, Alan Sillitoe

The Spoilt City: The Balkan Trilogy 2 - Olivia Manning

A Different Face - Olivia Manning

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Friends And Heroes: The Balkan Trilogy 3 - Olivia Manning

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Abandoned by user rated it

6 years ago

text Reading progress update: I've read 283 out of 917 pages.

I've finished The Great Fortune, the first of the three books that make up this trilogy. ‘Such a war! An unexploded squib of a war! What folly ever to start it. The great nations think only of power. They do not think of the ones who suffer for such a war.’ War has well-and-truly broken out, an...

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Bettie's Books rated it

10 years ago

text The Doves of Venus by Olivia Manning

bookshelves: autumn-2015, hardback, paper-read, under-50-ratings, published-1955, lit-richer, london, britain-england, chelsea, art-forms, coming-of-age Read on September 20, 2015 Description: Eighteen-year-old Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. Quintin, finds her a job in fashion...

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Bettie's Books rated it

12 years ago

text Fortunes of War

bookshelves: re-read, spring-2011, play-dramatisation, published-1981, wwii, war Read from April 04 to 11, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** A re-read via Stars Joanna Lumley.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/... " Young newlywed Harriet Pringle arrives in Bucharest in 1939, just as Europe is ab...

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