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Sylvia Townsend Warner

Birth date: December 06, 1893

Died: May 01, 1978

Website: www.townsendwarner.com/society.php

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Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

Sylvia Townsend Warner's Books

Lolly Willowes - Alison Lurie, Sylvia Townsend Warner

Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Corner That Held Them - Sylvia Townsend Warner

Fifty Great Short Stories - Edith Wharton, E.M. Forster, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, John Steinbeck, W. Somerset Maugham, Dorothy Parker, Francis Steegmuller, Guy de Maupassant, Ernest Hemingway, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, H.L. Mencken, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad,

After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvia Townsend Warner

Marcel Proust: On Art and Literature 1896-1919 - Marcel Proust, Sylvia Townsend Warner

T. H. White: A Biography - Sylvia Townsend Warner

Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories - J.R.R. Tolkien, Norton Juster, Ovid, Italo Calvino, H.G. Wells, William Morris, Julio Cortázar, George MacDonald, Chinua Achebe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, M.R. James, Bruno Schulz, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jack Finney, Joel Chandler Harris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Brautigan, L

The Element of Lavishness - Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell

Four in Hand: A Quarter of Novels - Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell

Conversation Gambits: Real English Conversation Practices - Eric Keller, Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Persephone Book of Short Stories - Edith Wharton, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, Penelope Fitzgerald, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Berridge, Shirley Jackson, Irène Némirovsky, Diana Athill, Susan Glaspell, Elizabeth Spencer, Kay Boyle, Betty Miller, E.M. Delafield, Pauline Smith, Penelope Mort

The Portrait Of A Tortoise - Gilbert Whi...

The Barnards of Loseby - Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Museum of Cheats - Sylvia Townsend W...

Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic - Bernard Malamud, Peter Green, Angus Wilson, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, James Stephens, Isabel Allende, Hortense Calisher, V.S. Naipaul, Rohinton Mistry, Alberto Manguel, Archibald Colquhoun, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Luigi Pirandello, Eric McCormack, Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King - T.H. White, Trevor Stubley, Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5) - T.H. White, Sylvia Townsend Warner

Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman

Lolly Willowes : Or the Loving Huntsman (New York Review Books Classics) - 'Alison Lurie', 'Sylvia Townsend Warner'

Kingdoms of Elfin (A Delta book) - Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Edward rated it

8 years ago

text Marcel Proust: On Art and Literature 1896-1919

AcknowledgmentIntroduction, by Terence Kilmartin--Contre Sainte-BeuveMiscellaneous WritingsProust the Critic--Against the young writers of the day--On taste--A history of French satire--A Sunday concert at the Conservatoire--Patriotism and the Christian Spirit--On 'La Bonne Hélène'--Portrait of a wr...

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Angel's Book Reviews 2.0 rated it

9 years ago

text Lolly Willowes

83. LOLLY WILLOWES, BY SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNERAnother recommendation by Mary. It’s funny that I had never heard about this book before, considering it’s exactly the kind of book I like... Synopsis: Laura is a spinster who never had any intention of marrying. She doesn’t resent being alone; in fact, s...

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Readin' and Dreamin' rated it

11 years ago

text Lolly Willowes

That’s why we become witches: to show our scorn of pretending life’s a safe business, to satisfy our passion for adventure. It’s not malice, or wickedness - well, perhaps it is wickedness, for most women love that - but certainly not malice, not wanting to plague cattle and make horrid children spou...

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denisebetteridge rated it

11 years ago

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The title was playful, but I didn't understand the purpose of the book. Nothing interesting happened. Rather, nothing happened. A spinster moves to a place because she liked a flower that was grown there, her nephew moves there and she all of a sudden hates him for no reason, she sees a man who is ...

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