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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (#1) by Maya Angelou
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Vmc Ser.
Maya Angelou becomes a Virago Modern Classics author, with brand-new jackets and a major campaign for her seven volumes of memoir, starting with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGSThe international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a ...Show more
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
Publicado em 1926, mas ainda inédito no Brasil, Lolly Willowes é o primeiro romance de uma das mais injustiçadas escritoras de todos os tempos: Sylvia Townsend Warner. Com uma escrita afiada e polêmica, ela foi uma das primeiras feministas a trazerem à tona temas sensíveis, muitos deles explorados por V ...Show more
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
It is a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separation, Laura and Stephen Marshall and their daughter Victor ...Show more
Pomfret Towers: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
This novel centers around the weekend party that Alice Barton, a shy English girl, attends at Pomfret Towers, the magnificent seventeenth-century home of Lord Pomfret. Alice's mother, Mrs. Barton, has decided that now is the time that timid, home-centered Alice, must learn to socialize. Alice, mustering ...Show more
The Brandons: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
The irresistible Brandons, their friends, and their servants are full of youthful nonsense and middle-aged folly. People will fall in love with the wrong person, and all are determined to misunderstand each other. Like Barbara Pym, E. F. Benson, and Jane Austen herself, Angela Thirkell has created a sma ...Show more
The Headmistress by Angela Thirkell
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: she dresses as a headmistress should and is an easy an ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
Cover design by Jacqueline Groag 'This crazy world whirled about her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked ...She was in the night again, and the doll was herself' One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's ...Show more
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