Rebecca West
Author
Language
English
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Description
The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father's genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family afloat, but then she is something of a high-strung eccentric herself, as is all too clear to her daughter Rose, through whose loving but sometimes cruel eyes events...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Published posthumously, this wise and entertaining family history and memoir offers keen insight into the origins of Rebecca West and her work
Working on Family Memories for over twenty years, West set out to narrate the story of her mother's, father's and husband's unique and talented families. As in her novels, the richly drawn characters of her heritage and childhood traverse a diverse landscape, from Scotland to Australia...
Working on Family Memories for over twenty years, West set out to narrate the story of her mother's, father's and husband's unique and talented families. As in her novels, the richly drawn characters of her heritage and childhood traverse a diverse landscape, from Scotland to Australia...
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1966]
Physical Desc
viii, 435 pages 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on an historical incident. The story is told by a half-English girl of eighteen whose grandfather is an exiled Russian aristocrat living in Paris. The grandfather is confronted by the Tsar's arch-enemy, a terrorist searching for the truth about an apparent double spy.
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1936]
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Isabelle, a wealthy American widow, arrives in France to restart her life and discovers she has her choice of eligible suitors. Torn between a placid liaison with a southerner and a tortuous affair with a Frenchman, Isabelle's plans suddenly take an unexpected turn that will ultimately lead her to a love that will force her to reconsider the implications of her affluent existence.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[1982], ©1980
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this London fantasy, West transports her reader with a tale of the troubling polarities of mind and spirit, male and female. Harriet Hume's unchanging beauty and commitment to her art stand in stark contrast to Arnold Condorex's more worldly goals. After a romantic tryst, she discovers that she can read his mind, but Arnold, with his sights set on moving up in the world, quickly parts from the mysterious lady. As they encounter each other over...
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1964]
Physical Desc
vii, 374 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The bestselling chronicle of England's World War II traitors, expanded and updated for the Cold War era. In The Meaning of Treason, Rebecca West tackled not only the history and facts behind the spate of World War II traitors, but the overriding social forces at work to challenge man's connection to his fatherland. As West reveals in this expanded edition, the ideologically driven amateurs of World War II were followed by the much more sinister professional...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1985, ©1984
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to The Fountain Overflows, Rose Aubrey, her sisters, and her cousin stand on the brink of adulthood and a new era for women. They have put down their schoolbooks and put up their hair, but a talented musician and her kin ponder what being a young woman on one's own will entail. Abandoned by their feckless father, Rose and her family must move beyond their comfortable drawing room to discover a world of kind patrons, music teachers, and...
12) 1900
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
190 p., [1] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this psychological drama set in the British countryside during the First World War, Alan Bates portrays a shell-shocked veteran who returns home with 15 years of his life, including his marriage, erased from his memory.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Description
An anthology of the world’s best literary espionage, selected by a contemporary master of the genre, Alan Furst.
Here is an extraordinary collection of work from some of the finest novelists of the twentieth century. Inspired by the politics of tyranny or war, each of these writers chose the base elements of spy fiction—highly evolved spy fiction—as the framework for a literary novel. Thus Alan Furst offers a diverse array...
Here is an extraordinary collection of work from some of the finest novelists of the twentieth century. Inspired by the politics of tyranny or war, each of these writers chose the base elements of spy fiction—highly evolved spy fiction—as the framework for a literary novel. Thus Alan Furst offers a diverse array...
