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Molly Keane: Loving Without Tears

“Have I insulted you? Have I really got through? Well, listen to me, then. Listen while you’re conscious.” Hostility dawned at last. “Don’t speak to me like that,” she blazed, and added “please” with a trembling underlip. Her anger was not womanly, it was like a hurt little boy and its quality was as dangerously […]

Kirjaluotsi Irlanti, Keane Molly, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press 23/08/2023 0 kommenttia 4 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Elizabeth Taylor: Angel

She had never cared much for books, because they did not seem to be about her, and she thought that she would rather write a book herself, to a pattern of her own choosing and about a beautiful young girl with a startling white skin, heiress to great property, wearing white piqué at Osborne and […]

Kirjaluotsi Iso-Britannia, Taylor Elizabeth, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press 14/08/2023 2 kommenttia 6 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Elizabeth Jenkins: The Tortoise and the Hare

She could not have said exactly when she had become aware of how often their neighbour Blanche Silcox’s name occurred in Evelyn’s conversation as that of a woman immensely knowledgeable on rural topics, whose opinions on the ethics of tied cottages, drainage and poultry-keeping for profit called forth respectful agreement. To all such topics Imogen […]

Kirjaluotsi Iso-Britannia, Jenkins Elizabeth, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press 18/07/2023 6 kommenttia 5 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Elizabeth Taylor: The Soul of Kindness

He was one of the various men Flora invited to the house whenever Meg was expected. She eagerly waited to hear Meg’s reactions, when next they met alone – sometimes in Meg’s lunch hour when Flora was shopping. If she could get Meg settled, Flora had decided, she herself would be quite happy, but her […]

Kirjaluotsi Iso-Britannia, Taylor Elizabeth, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press 12/02/2023 2 kommenttia 4 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Elizabeth Taylor: A View of the Harbour

Tory Foyle unwound the black chenille scarf from her hair. She was what was once held to be the typical English Beauty, her pink face, bright hair and really violet eyes. ‘I had a letter from Edward.’ She took a small piece of lined paper from her pocket and smoothed it. Beth poured tea and […]

Kirjaluotsi Iso-Britannia, Taylor Elizabeth, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press 12/08/2022 2 kommenttia 4 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Elizabeth Taylor: In a Summer Season

Lady Asperley, at whose home years ago Kate and Alan had first met Dermot, had been lukewarm about a marriage – disastrous as she believed it must be – for which she held herself responsible. She had known Dermot was a drifter, but his voice reminded her of his father’s – a man she had […]

Kirjaluotsi Iso-Britannia, Taylor Elizabeth, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press 20/07/2022 4 kommenttia 5 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Elizabeth Taylor: Blaming

‘I am consumed by a desire to see your house,’ Amy read. ‘Laurel House, Laurel Walk sounds so English.’ Martha’s spidery, American hand-writing. Ernie, bringing in a pot of coffee, asked, ‘Everything all right, madam?’ His new teeth clicked badly. If they were to do it for ever, she felt that she could not bear […]

Kirjaluotsi Iso-Britannia, Taylor Elizabeth, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press 07/01/2022 2 kommenttia 6 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Marilynne Robinson: Home

How to announce the return of comfort and well-being except by cooking something fragrant. That is what her mother always did. After every calamity of any significance she would fill the atmosphere of the house with the smell of cinnamon rolls or brownies, or with chicken and dumplings, and it would mean, This house has […]

Kirjaluotsi Robinson Marilynne, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press, Yhdysvallat 29/08/2021 5 kommenttia 4 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Elizabeth Taylor: Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont | Naistenviikkohaaste 2021

Desmond did not come. The sweater Mrs Palfrey was knitting for him neared completion, and everyone knew that he had not come to claim it. Saving face had been an important part of life in the Far East, and Mrs Palfrey tried to save hers now. Trouble usually comes from doing so, and it came […]

Kirjaluotsi Iso-Britannia, Taylor Elizabeth, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press 22/07/2021 4 kommenttia 5 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca

I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious for all time, because we were peaceful all of us, we were content and drowsy even as the bee who droned above our heads. In a little while it would be different, there would come tomorrow, and […]

Kirjaluotsi Du Maurier, Daphne, Iso-Britannia, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press 26/02/2021 2 kommenttia 4 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Elizabeth Taylor: At Mrs Lippincote's

Oliver Davenant did not merely read books. He snuffed them up, took breaths of them into his lungs, filled his eyes with the sight of the print and his head with the sound of words. Some emanation from the book itself poured into his bones, as if he were absorbing steady sunshine. The pages had […]

Kirjaluotsi Iso-Britannia, Taylor Elizabeth, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press 04/09/2020 3 kommenttia 5 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Marilynne Robinson: Gilead

There’s a shimmer on a child’s hair, in the sunlight. There are rainbow colors in it, tiny, soft beams of just the same colors you can see in the dew sometimes. They’re in the petals of flowers, and they’re on a child’s skin. Your hair is straight and dark, and your skin is very fair. […]

Kirjaluotsi Robinson Marilynne, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press, Yhdysvallat 11/08/2019 0 kommenttia 5 min lukuaika Lue lisää

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