High Rising (Barsetshire series) - Softcover

Thirkell, Angela

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9780786704224: High Rising (Barsetshire series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786704225 ISBN 13: 9780786704224

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 1949

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In this lively social satire, Thirkell's quintessential British humor captures the foibles and worth of gentry and villager alike. Lovely, vague, and widowed, Mrs. Morland writes rather sensational novels to support herself and her infuriating son. Around her the village of High Rising, located in Trollope's imaginary county of Barsetshire, runs amok.

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Review:

Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself (Alexander McCall Smith)

Appealing (Glasgow Sunday Herald)

A smart new edition . . . A terrific holiday story (The Lady)

A delightfully entertaining comedy of manners. Full of period charm and witty authorial comment (Good Book Guide)

To be so witty and charming yet also so brilliantly brusque and practical as Laura Morland is my new year's resolution (Pippa Wright, author of The Foster Husband)

Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself. (Alexander McCall Smith)

Appealing. (Glasgow Sunday Herald)

A smart new edition . . . A terrific holiday story. (The Lady)

A delightfully entertaining comedy of manners. Full of period charm and witty authorial comment. (Good Book Guide)

Book Description:

The first of Angela Thirkell's brilliantly satirical English comedies set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, High Rising is now available as a Virago Modern Classic. Perfect for fans of Stella Gibbons, PG Wodehouse or EF Benson.

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