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After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$25.45 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'She has a talent amounting to genius' John Updike Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Doña Ana, the woman he tried to seduce, will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Set in a rural eighteenth-century Spain ...Show more
Lolly Willowes (Little Clothbound Classics) by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and m ...Show more
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' SARAH WATERS In memory of the wife who had once dishonoured and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded Oby - a twelfth-century convent in a hidden corner of Norfolk. Two centuries l ...Show more
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last nove ...Show more
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