The Pleasure of Miss Pym

The Pleasure of Miss Pym
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 141
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ISBN-10 : 9780292759626
ISBN-13 : 0292759622
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Pleasure of Miss Pym by : Charles Burkhart

Download or read book The Pleasure of Miss Pym written by Charles Burkhart and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When British writers Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil named Barbara Pym one of the twentieth century's most underrated authors in a 1977 Times Literary Supplement survey, they started a Barbara Pym revival that continued unabated in Great Britain and the United States. Barbara Pym's delightful tales of jumble sales and parish meetings, her ironic insights into the relationships between women and men, have won a devoted following. Indeed she is often compared to that most accomplished author of comedies of manners, Jane Austen. The Pleasure of Miss Pym is a critical study of Pym as comic writer and of the links between her life and autobiographical writings and her fiction, written with a liveliness of style and tone that matches Pym's own. Not only does Charles Burkhart provide perceptive discussions of Pym's life and novels, he also illuminates the worldview represented in her work, the unique nature of her comedy, her religion, her place within the history of the novel, and her penetrating insights into male-female relationships. All of Pym's work, including the 1986 posthumous publication, An Academic Question, is intelligently surveyed here. Scholars of contemporary English literature will derive both instruction and pleasure from this elegantly written study, as will Pym's admiring readers, for whom it is also intended.

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 768
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ISBN-10 : 9780008322229
ISBN-13 : 0008322228
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by : Paula Byrne

Download or read book The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym written by Paula Byrne and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’ JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021

Miss Pym Disposes

Miss Pym Disposes
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781476733296
ISBN-13 : 1476733295
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Miss Pym Disposes by : Josephine Tey

Download or read book Miss Pym Disposes written by Josephine Tey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. The year's term is nearly over, and Miss Pym -- inquisitive and observant -- detects a furtiveness in the behavior of one student during a final exam. She prevents the girl from cheating by destroying her crib notes. But Miss Pym's cover-up of one crime precipitates another -- a fatal "accident" that only her psychological theories can prove was really murder.

Excellent Women

Excellent Women
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9781101666258
ISBN-13 : 1101666250
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Excellent Women by : Barbara Pym

Download or read book Excellent Women written by Barbara Pym and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.

Miss Pym Disposes

Miss Pym Disposes
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547402879
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Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Miss Pym Disposes by : Josephine Tey

Download or read book Miss Pym Disposes written by Josephine Tey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Lucy Pym is a high school teacher of French language who wrote a pop psychology book which, to her surprise, turned out best-seller. She is invited by an old friend, a principle of Leys Physical Training College, to be a guest speaker at this women's facility. Miss Pym is warmly accepted and implored to stay at the college until the day of the demonstration. She becomes interested in the lives and personalities of the college students and their teachers. However, under apparently normal relations Miss Pym detects tension, rivalry and jealousy which eventually lead to an accident. But Miss Pym believes there is more to it.

Miss Pym Disposes

Miss Pym Disposes
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547107545
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Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Miss Pym Disposes by : Elizabeth Mackintosh

Download or read book Miss Pym Disposes written by Elizabeth Mackintosh and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Miss Pym Disposes" by Elizabeth Mackintosh. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Barbara Pym

Barbara Pym
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 0810828758
ISBN-13 : 9780810828759
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Barbara Pym by : Orphia Jane Allen

Download or read book Barbara Pym written by Orphia Jane Allen and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encourages the teaching of Pym's novels and assists scholars in the critical study of Pym's contribution to English literature.