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Classic 1930s comedies; lively, witty and deliciously diverting
Angela Thirkell - a classic author compared to Barbara Pym and P. G. Wodehouse - wrote a series of novels set in the fictional English county of Barsetshire. Beautifully republished in the UK by Virago Modern Classics, they are romantic social comedies – amusing, entertaining and witty.
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Virago Modern Classics, UK
Goldmann, Germany
Astoria, Italy
Editions Charleston/Editions 10/18, France
Gatopardo, Spain
Endorsements
“She is a public benefactor.” - Siegfried Sassoon
“Charming, very funny indeed.” - Alexander McCall Smith
“Grace, wit, equanimity and engaging narrative power…if the social historian of the future does not refer to this writer’s novels, he will not know his business.”- Elizabeth Bowen
“Mrs Thirkell possesses to a high degree the gift of making characters spring to life. She is often both witty and shrewd. She has a most observant, and often an attractively wicked, eye.” - C P Snow
“I am often impressed by Angela Thirkell’s likeness to Jane Austen: both writers possess a superb command of rural atmosphere and of inducing inner laughter.” - Rachel Ferguson
“I would call her a female Trollope, if this were not rude and tautologous.” - Clifton Fadiman
Reviews
“There’s just no stopping after one novel.” - Publishers Weekly
“Where Trollope would have been content to arouse a chuckle, [Angela Thirkell] is constantly provoking us to hilarious laughter…To read her is to get the feeling of knowing these Barsetshire folk as well as if one had been born and bred in the county.” - Kirkus Reviews
“Appealing.” - Glasgow Sunday Herald
“A smart new edition…” - The Lady
“You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own” - New York Times
“The novels are a delight, with touches of E. F. Benson, E. M. Delafield and P. G. Wodehouse” - Independent on Sunday
Author Biography
Angela Thirkell, grand-daughter of pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, and cousin to Rudyard Kipling, was born in London in 1890. She began writing in 1930 to support herself and her sons, and produced a new book almost every year for the rest of her life. Her stylish prose and deft portrayal of human comedy in the fictional county of Barsetshire have delighted readers for decades. She died in 1961 aged 70.
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