Reading Barbara Pym.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Reading Barbara Pym.

Donato, Deborah.

Fairleigh Dickinson U.P.

2005

124 pages

$35.00

Hardcover

PR6066

Donato analyzes four works by English novelist Barbara Pym--Some Tame Gazelle, Quartet in Autumn, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence--looking closely at the text and style for what they say about life and art. She includes ideas of George Orwell, Friedrich von Schiller, Lionel Trilling, Friedrich Nietzsche, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Aldous Huxley and compares Pym's works to other writers such as Muriel Spark, Margaret Drabble, ...

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