Some Tame Gazelle
"One of my favorites of Pym's novels, it turns a shrewd, mocking, but always affectionate eye on English country life 30 years ago. Pym's fans will feel completely at home when they step into the Jane Austen-like lives of Harriet and Belinda Bede."- Christian Science Monitor
"One of my favorites of Pym's novels, it turns a shrewd, mocking, but always affectionate eye on English country life 30 years ago. Pym's fans will feel completely at home when they step into the Jane Austen-like lives of Harriet and Belinda Bede."- Christian Science Monitor
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781559212649 (1559212640)
Publish date: March 14th 1999
Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
Pages no: 322
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Religion,
Womens
A book in the glorious British tradition of gentle village comedy inhabited by the full range of spinsters, clergymen and a melancholic, romantic count.
Published in 1950, it's a wonderful if somewhat bittersweet tale of two sisters, Belinda and Harriet single women in a time when women were expected to marry or live in a very coded way. Belinda has been holding a torch for Henry, the archdeacon for 30 years since he chose to marry Agatha. Harriet s...
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