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Excellent Women
Contributor(s): Pym, Barbara (Author), Wilson, A. N. (Introduction by)
ISBN: 014310487X     ISBN-13: 9780143104872
Publisher: Penguin Group
OUR PRICE:   $14.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2007
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Annotation: "Excellent Women" is one of Barbara Pyms richest and most amusing high comedies. Mildred Lathbury is a clergymans 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 neighborsanthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next doorthe 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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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Satire
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2006045506
Lexile Measure: 940
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.14" W x 7.66" (0.40 lbs) 256 pages
 
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"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.