Margery Sharp
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"It's in my mind to put an end to this heathen wickedness that's stalking abroad through Gillenham. It's in my mind to terrify that evil man from his morrow's sinful doings."
"We'll be going to Old Manor, then?"
"Not yet," said Mrs. Pye grimly. "We go first to the village. To rouse the women... "
Professor Pounce arrives in the idyllic village of Gillenham, along with his sister-in-law, his nephew Nicholas, and Carmen, his voluptuous assistant, in...
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Tras la muerte de su joven marido en la Gran Guerra, Julia Packett decidió dejar a su hija Susan con su aristocrática suegra e irse a Londres a perseguir su sueño de ser actriz. Ahora, a sus 37 años y sin blanca, recibe una carta en la que Susan le anuncia sus planes de boda. Con un renovado espíritu maternal, Julia agarra sus escasos bártulos y viaja a Les Sapins, la preciosa villa alpina donde veranean la abuela Packett, Susan y Bryan Relton,...
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He also made himself a weekly allowance of five shillings for cigarettes, stationery, amusements, shoe-repairs, razor blades, laundry, toothpaste, hospitality and 'bus fares; and having thus cut his coat to his cloth, wore it in great content.
The only thing he had not allowed for (and this in an author must surely be, considered strange) was Love.
Upon the death of his distant, unaffectionate father, Alistair French, a young store clerk, takes his...
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Lisbeth Campion was, engaged, as usual, in resisting advances.
Arthur Alfred Partridge, a middle-aged widower with a drab job and a frustrated sense of adventure, gets more than he bargained for when he encounters the irresistible Lisbeth Campion, whose troubles go well beyond her plethora of suitors. She's particularly concerned about her wastrel brother Ronny, fresh from six months in prison for peddling cocaine (he thought it was baking powder,...
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Sentimental, affectionate, uncritical, Mrs. Bracken so easily attached herself to persons, places, and even objects that after no more than two days in an hotel she had a favourite waiter, a favourite ornament, a favourite view. She had adored her husband, and was very fond of her French pepper-mill.
World War II has ended and widowed Isabel Brocken, kind-hearted and generous if perhaps just a bit foolish, is back in her old family home on the outskirts...
6) Cluny Brown
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Año 1938. Arnold Porritt, un próspero fontanero londinense, ya no sabe qué hacer con las extravagancias de su sobrina Cluny. Después de frecuentar el Ritz como una gran señora y de dejarse seducir alegremente por un cliente, su tío decide mandarla como sirvienta a Friars Carmel, una encantadora mansión campestre.
Allí la esperan, entre otros, lady Carmel, su patrona, siempre metida entre sus flores; su hijo Andrew, que acaba de traerse de...
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It was indeed very difficult for the Laventie children not to be a little priggish.
Ann Laventie, the youngest of three children in a long line of anti-social Sussex gentry, doesn't quite fit the mould of her intellectual, elegant, ultra-modern siblings Dick, an artist, and Elizabeth, a high-brow writer. Their father is scholarly and just wealthy enough to focus all his attention on reading and other highbrow pursuits. Ann, on the other hand, worries...
8) Four Gardens
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She announced herself, rather self-consciously, as Mrs. Henry Smith, and he replied that Mrs. Cornwallis was expecting her. To Caroline, following him through a wide shabby hall, the whole episode was, beginning to feel like a nightmare. She was intensely conscious of herself-of her dress, her voice, the way she placed her feet. She felt like a cook-general going to be, interviewed.
"Mrs. Henry Smith," said the butler contemptuously.
In Four Gardens,...