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Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
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Category: Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley (Virago Modern Classic) by Grace Paley; George Saunders (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'This is a collection full of energy and stunning, quiet innovation ... it spills over with contempt, raucous humour, sadness and generosity. In it, life and language are synonymous, and there is no higher praise. What a wonderful book' Ali Smith Here are all Grace Paley's classic stories in one volume. ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Carter
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This Audible Exclusive adaptation of Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, is brought expertly to life by multi-award winning actress, Fiona Shaw. A coming of age tale which extends the nature and boundaries of love, as seen through the eyes of the youthful and na ve Melanie, The Magic Toyshop was enormou ...Show more
The Return Of The Soldier (Virago Modern Classic) by Rebecca West; Sadie Jones (Introduction by); Victoria Glendinning (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Weald ...Show more
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not ...Show more
The Weather In The Streets (Virago Modern Classic) by Rosamond Lehmann; Carmen Callil (Introduction by); Elizabeth Day (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'A truly great book. It is beautifully written, shrewdly observed and deftly crafted, but the novel's real concern is what it means for a woman to live an authentic life' Elizabeth Day A chance encounter with the man who enchanted her as a teenager leads Olivia Curtis into to a forbidden love affair. H ...Show more
The Wedding by Dorothy West; Diana Evans (Introduction by)
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by DIANA EVANS 'Timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender' Emma Garman, Paris Review Set on a bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the story of life in the ...Show more
Transit by Anna Seghers; Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator)
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY STUART EVERS: 'A genuine, fully fledged masterpiece of the twentieth century; one that remains just as terrifyingly relevant and truthful in the twenty-first'An existential, political, literary thriller first published in 1944, that explores the plight of the refugee with extraordinary com ...Show more