Some Tame Gazelle
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060970420 (0060970421)
Publish date: June 1st 1986
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 256
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...