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Excellent Women

Excellent Women

Wilson, A. N.
Pym, Barbara

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 014310487X
ISBN13: 9780143104872
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Jan 1 2007
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.14 Depth: 7.66
Language: English

The finest introduction to Barbara Pym (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen

One of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman's daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those excellent women, the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors--anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door--the novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires.

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