Prunella Scales
1) Emma
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
A novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julian Barnes presents a collection of stories whose characters are growing old and facing the end of their lives -- some with bitterness, some with resignation and others with raging defiance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1976, c1933
Physical Desc
185 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The famous literary romance of Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning given a funny and poignant slant - being told from the viewpoint of Elizabeth's adored spaniel, Flush, who bore his mistress's virtual imprisonment as an invalid in her father's house, and shared her dramatic flight abroad and subsequent happy married life.
Flush belonged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and followed its mistress from her confinement in her father's house in Wimpole...