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Jerusalem the Golden

Jerusalem the Golden

Margaret Drabble

In this captivating story of growing up and moving on, Margaret Drabble explores what it means to leave a disregarded childhood and family behind. WINNER of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
The Ice Age

The Ice Age

Margaret Drabble

Set against a backdrop of the Cold War and the political turmoil that led England to Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Age tells the story of three people desperately seeking firm ground amidst chaos with Margaret Drabble’s characteristically ...
The Witch of Exmoor

The Witch of Exmoor

Margaret Drabble

In a “profoundly moving, intellectually acute” novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is “as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh” (Los Angeles Times), Margaret Drabble conjures up a retired writer besieged by her three ...
The Waterfall

The Waterfall

Margaret Drabble

Through Jane’s struggle to reconcile her relationship with James with her friendship with Lucy, Margaret Drabble gives us an intimate look at a woman caught between the claims of sexual awakening, maternal love and friendship.
Arnold Bennett: A Biography

Arnold Bennett: A Biography

Margaret Drabble

' Thus begins Margaret Drabble's biography of a man whose most famous achievement was to re-create, in such novels as The Old Wives' Tale and Clayhanger, the life, atmosphere and character of the 'Five Towns' region in which he was born and ...
Feminine Sensibility in the Novels of Margaret Drabble: An ...

Feminine Sensibility in the Novels of Margaret Drabble: An ...

Suhasini Tapaswi

Her Heroines Are Occupied With The Difficulties Of Fulfilment And Self-Definition In A Man S World, The Conflicting Claims Of Self-Hood, Wife-Hood And Mother-Hood.The Present Book Concentrates Mainly On Those Novels Of Margaret Drabble ...
The Red Queen

The Red Queen

Margaret Drabble

Set in 18th century Korea and the present day, Margaret Drabble's The Red Queen is a rich and atmospheric novel about love, and what it means to be remembered. 200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, ...
Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble

Lynn Veach Sadler

Surveys the life and career of the English author and examines the themes of her major novels
The Millstone

The Millstone

Margaret Drabble

First published in 1965, The Millstone tells the story of Rosamund Stacey, who gets pregnant after a one night stand when she loses her virginity.
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

Margaret Drabble

And she does so with her customary intelligence, energy, and wit. This is a journey like no other. "Unlike anything else in the bookstore." Christian Science Monitor "Fascinating.
The Dark Flood Rises

The Dark Flood Rises

Margaret Drabble

Will they be waving or drowning when the end comes? By turns joyous and profound, darkly sardonic and moving, The Dark Flood Rises questions what makes a good life, and a good death.
Romanticism and Gender

Romanticism and Gender

Anne K. Mellor

Anne K. Mellor. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. To John Hamilton Reynolds, 21 September 1817, Letters of Keats, I pp. 163–5. Quoted Keats, Mellor, To “Keats 174. Karen and by Margaret Drabble, ed.,The Oxford ...
The Digested Read

The Digested Read

John Crace

Philip Roth, Don Delillo, Margaret Drabble, Paul Auster, Alice Sebold, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Ruth Rendell, A.S. Byatt, John LeCarre, Michael Crichton and Ian McEwan all emerge delightfully scathed in this book that makes it easy to talk ...
The Crafting of Chaos: Narrative Structure in Margaret ...

The Crafting of Chaos: Narrative Structure in Margaret ...

Hildegard Kuester

1n 1981, Patricia Morley published the monograph Margaret Laurence9 in Twayne's World Authors series; with a few additions, it reappeared on the market ten years later under the title Margaret Laurence: The Long Journey Home.
Margaret Weis' Testament of the Dragon: An Illustrated Novel

Margaret Weis' Testament of the Dragon: An Illustrated Novel

Margaret Weis

Here begins Justin Sterling's centuries-spanning story, as told by bestselling author Margaret Weis and her chosen band of dark fantasists, in the world's first major illustrated novel.
Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...

Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...

Margaret Homans

Homans considers versions of Victoria in the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Margaret Oliphant, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Julia Margaret Cameron.
Wildflowering: The Life and Places of Kathleen McArthur

Wildflowering: The Life and Places of Kathleen McArthur

Margaret Somerville

When author Margaret Somerville met her in 1991 she was still painting and writing, and continued to produce a monthly play for the Lunch Hour Theatre well into her eighties.In Wildflowering the conversations between Kathleen and Margaret ...
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Judy Blume

It’s Me Margaret is very special.” —Amy Poehler quoted on Vulture.com “Generations of teenage girls have grown up reading the tales of teenage angst told by beloved author Judy Blume.” —Mashable.com Margaret Simon, almost twelve ...
Recipes for Life After Weight-Loss Surgery, Revised and ...

Recipes for Life After Weight-Loss Surgery, Revised and ...

Margaret M. Furtado

... on Lower-BMI Gastric Banding Procedures Margaret M. Furtado, Margaret Furtado, Lynette Schultz, Joseph Ewing. About the Authors lVI&I'g&II'€T F1lI'T&d0 , M.S., R.D., L.D.N., R.Y.T., is a registered and licensed dietitian with over twenty ...
Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence, John Lennox, Ruth Panofsky, Adele Wiseman. from the Grade 13 English curriculum at Lakefield District Secondary School pending a decision by the Textbook Review Committee of the Peterborough Board of Education.
Margaret Dow Gebby Diaries

Margaret Dow Gebby Diaries

Margaret Dow Gebby

Margaret Dow Gebby recorded in her eleven diaries daily work and leisure activities as well as income and expenses on a grain and livestock farm near Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady

Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady

Biographiq

Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady is the biography of Margaret Thatcher, a former British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 until 1990.
One woman's Charlottetown: diaries of Margaret Gray Lord, ...

One woman's Charlottetown: diaries of Margaret Gray Lord, ...

Margaret Gray Lord

This report is based on three diaries of Margaret Pennefather Stukely Gray, daughter of Father of Confederation John Hamilton Gray and wife of Artemas Lord, a prominent businessman and federal civil servant.
How Happy We Shall Be

How Happy We Shall Be

Margaret Thornton

A heartwarming World War Two saga for fans of Kate Flynn, Annie Murray and Margaret Dickinson.
Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side ...

Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side ...

Piers Dudgeon

What Every Woman Knows 216, 222n When AMan's Single 92, 119n Who's Here154 Barrie, Margaret (Barrie's mother) see Ogilvy, Margaret Barrie, Margaret 'Maggie' (Barrie's sister)59, 172,211 Barrie, Mary(Barrie's sister) 58 Barrie, Mary ...
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

Margaret Thornton

A heartwarming World War Two saga for fans of Kate Flynn, Annie Murray and Margaret Dickinson.
Margaret Truman's Experiment in Murder: A Capital Crimes Novel

Margaret Truman's Experiment in Murder: A Capital Crimes Novel

Margaret Truman

Margaret Truman thrills again with Experiment in Murder, the riveting next installment in her Capital Crimes series. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Iron Coffin: War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS ...

Iron Coffin: War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS ...

David A. Mindell

29, 1862. 39. Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling, introduction to Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling, eds., Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World 1700–1920 (Baltimore, 1996), xiii; Margaret Creighton, Rites ...
Early Tudor translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More ...

Early Tudor translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More ...

William Atkinson

This volume presents the texts of three Englishwomen remarkable both for writing and publishing their work during the first half of the sixteenth century.

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