Download or read book The Battle of the Villa Fiorita The Greengage Summer An Episode of Sparrows written by Rumer Godden and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Battle of the Villa Fiorita written by Rumer Godden and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BLACK NARCISSUS AND THE RIVER 'One of our best and most captivating novelists' PHILIP HENSHER '[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' EVENING STANDARD 'Her prose is pure, delicate, and gently witty' NEW YORK TIMES When their mother leaves the country to be with her lover, Hugh and Caddie Clavering's seemingly perfect life falls apart. Devastated by the sudden, bitter dissolution of their parents' marriage and desperate for her to come back, the children travel alone to the Villa Fiorita on Lake Garda, determined not to leave without her. On arrival, they can tell Fanny and Rob are deeply in love, and their mother is happier than they've ever seen her, but the scheme lives on. Thankfully, Rob's young daughter is only too glad to help destroy their parents' relationship. Will Hugh and Caddie realise that their actions have consequences before it is too late? Told with wit and great empathy against a stunning evocation of the Italian countryside, Rumer Godden's The Battle of the Villa Fiorita marks another coming of age classic for the highly acclaimed author.

Download or read book Rumer Godden written by Lucy Le-Guilcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1929 to 1997, Rumer Godden published more than 60 books, including novels, biographies, children's books, and poetry; this is the first collection devoted to this important transnational writer. Focusing on Godden's writing from the 1930s onward, the contributors uncover the breadth and variety of the literary landscape on display in works such as Black Narcissus, The Lady and the Unicorn, A Fugue in Time, and The River. Often drawing on her own experiences living in India and Britain, Godden establishes a diverse narrative topography that allows her to engage with issues related to her own uncertain position as an author representing such nomadic Others as gypsies, or taking up the displacements brought about by international conflict. Recognizing that studies of the transnational must consider the condition of enforced and elected exile within the changing political and cultural borders of postcolonial nations, the contributors position Godden with respect to different and overlapping fields of inquiry: modern literary history; colonial, postcolonial, and transnational studies; inter-media studies; and children's literature. Taken together, the essays in this volume demonstrate the richness and variety of Godden's writing and render the myriad ways in which Godden is an important critical presence in mid-twentieth-century fiction.

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Download or read book Rumer Godden Revisited written by Lynne Meryl Rosenthal and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rumer Godden is best-known for her novels Black Narcissus and A Greengage Summer, and for her children's books The Doll's House and Impunity Jane. This study, organized chronologically, focuses on themes of the conflict between the needs of children and adults, and how this relates to Godden's own life. The author points out formal and thematic connections in Godden's work over the six decades in which she has been writing.

Download or read book The Dark Horse written by Rumer Godden and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pippa Passes written by Rumer Godden and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romance in Venice between an Italian gondolier and an English dancer from a visiting ballet company. It is complicated by lesbian advances by the company's ballet mistress. By the author of Great Grandfather's House.

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Download or read book Famous British Women Novelists written by Norah Smaridge and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These brief biographies of twelve women novelists--thinkers, originators, stylists, "best sellers" --cover their lives and work and give some insight into their characters and temperaments. The classics take the lead: Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the ill-starred Brontë sisters. A variety of contemporary novelists follows: Agatha Christie, acknowledged Queen of Crime; Mary Stuart, whose unique way with the suspense story thrills her readers; Rumer Godden, whose novels are set in exotic lands; Sheila Kaye-Smith and Mary Webb, regional novelists who have made their home counties, Sussex and Shropshire, known and loved; Dorothy Sayers, erudite writer of detective stories who created Lord Peter Wimsey; Victoria Sackville West, who recreated the Edwardian period and wrote lovingly about her castle and gardens; Virginia Woolf, tragic author of strange and sensitive novels." -Publisher.

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