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Closed Door and Other Stories by Dorothy Whipple
$46.00 NZD
Category: Persephone Books
Dorothy Whipple's key theme in her stories is 'Live and Let Live'. And what she describes throughout her short stories are people, and particularly parents, who defy this maxim. This work features ten short stories from three volumes of stories that Dorothy published in her lifetime.
Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple; Charles Lock (Afterword by)
$44.00 NZD
Category: Persephone Books | Series: Persephone Bks.
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Persephone Classics Ser.
“A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love.”—The Spectator Written in 1953, the last book by best-selling novelist Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance is a quietly gripping story about the destruction of a marriage. Ellen is “that unfashionable creature, a happy hous ...Show more
The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
$46.00 NZD
Category: Persephone Books | Series: Persephone Book Ser.
The setting for this, the third novel by Dorothy Whipple Persephone have published, is Saunby Priory, a large house somewhere in England which has seen better times. We are shown the two Marwood girls, who are nearly grown-up, their father, the widower Major Marwood, and their aunt; then, as soon as the ...Show more
They Knew Mr. Knight by Dorothy Whipple
$46.00 NZD
Category: Persephone Books
The Blakes are an ordinary family: Celia looks after the house and Thomas works at the family engineering business in Leicester. This book begins when he meets Mr Knight, a financier as crooked as any on the front pages of our newspapers nowadays; and tracks his and his family's swift climb and fall. ...Show more
They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
$46.00 NZD
Category: Persephone Books | Series: Persephone Book Ser.
The main theme of "They Were Sisters" (1943) is that three sisters' choice of husband dictates whether they have homes, and whether, in their homes, they will be allowed to flourish, be tamed or repressed. We see three different choices and three different husbands: the best-friend, soul-mate husband of ...Show more
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