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A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford
Category: Fiction
Set in a two month period during the late 1920s, A Compass Error suggests that at some key juncture the book's main character, Flavia, made a mistake that somehow blew her life off course, perhaps into a new sexual orientation.
A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford
Category: Fiction
One autumn in the late 1920s, Constanza boards a train in Italy en route to Brussels and a new marriage. With her is her young daughter Flavia. Through an odd incident Constanza makes a casual decision that changes both their lives.
A Favourite of the Gods and a Compass Error by Sybille Bedford; Daniel Mendelsohn (Preface by)
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian p ...Show more
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds - the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural ...Show more
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
Category: Fiction
"A book of entirely delicious quality...Everything is new, cool, witty, elegant."-Evelyn Waugh. The Kaiser's Germany is the setting of Sybille Bedford's first and best-known novel, in which two families-one from solid, upholstered Jewish Berlin, the other from the somnolent, agrarian Catholic South -bec ...Show more
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
Category: Fiction
"A Legacy" is the tale of two very different families, the Merzes and the Feldens. The Jewish Merzes are longstanding members of Berlin's haute bourgeoisie who count a friend of Goethe among their distinguished ancestors. Not that this proud legacy means much of anything to them anymore. Secure in their ...Show more
Aldous Huxley: A Biography by Sybille Bedford
Category: Biography
In this dazzling conjunction of subject and author, the great English novelist Aldous Huxley, the Owholly civilized man,O is brought wholly alive in a magnificent full-scale biography by the brilliant English novelist Sybille Bedford, an intimate friend of the Huxleys through four decades. With a pointi ...Show more
Aldous Huxley - A Biography by Sybille Bedford
Category: Biography
A full-scale biography by the brilliant English novelist, an intimate friend of the Huxleys through four decades. She re-creates not only the private Huxley and the literary Huxley but the entire intellectual and social era to which he was central. One of the great classic English biographies...as forbi ...Show more
Aldous Huxley - A Biography by Sybille Bedford
Category: Biography
A full-scale biography by the brilliant English novelist, an intimate friend of the Huxleys through four decades. She re-creates not only the private Huxley and the literary Huxley but the entire intellectual and social era to which he was central. One of the great classic English biographies...as forbi ...Show more
Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Bedford's autobiographical novel paints a vivid picture of life in 1920s Europe between the wars. From her first novel, A Legacy--a book admired by novelists (among them Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford), critics, and readers on both sides of the Atlantic--to her acclaim ...Show more
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford
Category: Fiction
This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful ...Show more
Pleasures and Landscapes by Sybille Bedford
Category: Travel
In these eight evocative and unpredictable essays, Sybille Bedford chronicles her adventures through Europe over a thirty-year period. With her elegant prose and razor-sharp insight, Bedford takes us on a propulsive journey - dropping us into the passenger seat as she drives to meet Martha Gellhorn in C ...Show more