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- English Books
- Paperback 256 Pages
- Edition: New
- ISBN-10: 0141441801
- ISBN-13: 9780141441801
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Pub date: Mar 25, 2008
- Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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The 15 stories collected in this volume demonstrate the genius of a woman who, in her short life, was compared with Chekhov. These are not tales of violent incident or dexterous plot. They are sensitive revelations of human behaviour in quite ordinary situations. The men, women and especially the ... (continue)
The 15 stories collected in this volume demonstrate the genius of a woman who, in her short life, was compared with Chekhov. These are not tales of violent incident or dexterous plot. They are sensitive revelations of human behaviour in quite ordinary situations. The men, women and especially the children, whom [the author] portrays in such delicate pastels, are involved in no sensational episodes, yet they are vividly true to life.</p><p>Claire Tomalin – 'Her territory was that of the fragile emotions, half-understood feelings, the fine edge between the ridiculous and the pathetic'</p><p>Elizabeth Bowen – 'She uses no literary shock tactics. The singular beauty of her language consists, partly, in its hardly seeming to be language at all, so glass-transparent is it to her meaning. Words had but one appeal for her, that of speakingness'
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