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Muriel Spark: Territorial Rights | Naistenviikkohaaste 2021

He was taken to the Pensione Sofia through the sunny waters of palaces, domes and ferries. It was his first visit to Venice and he was young; but he had only half a mind to feel enchanted, the other half being still occupied with a personal anxiety in Paris from where he had just come. […]

Kirjaluotsi Iso-Britannia, New Directions, Spark Muriel, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus 24/07/2021 2 kommenttia 4 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Barbara Pym: An Unsuitable Attachment | Naistenviikkohaaste 2021

‘Reading, were you?’ Rupert picked up the book which lay one the little table by the fire. It turned out to be the poems of Tennyson, bound in green morocco. Could she really have been reading that? he wondered, looking around for the novel stuffed behind a cushion.‘Yes, but I was just going to make […]

Kirjaluotsi Bello, Iso-Britannia, Pym Barbara, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus 23/07/2021 2 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
Elizabeth Bowen: The Last September | Naistenviikkohaaste 2021

Dark had so gained the trees that Lois, turning back from the window, was surprised at how light the room was. Day still coming in from the fields by the south windows was stored in the mirrors, in the sheen of the wallpaper, so that the room still shone. Mr. Montmorency had come in and […]

Kirjaluotsi Bowen Elizabeth, Iso-Britannia, Penguin Audio, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus 21/07/2021 2 kommenttia 5 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Elizabeth von Arnim: The Enchanted April | Naistenviikkohaaste 2021

All down the stone steps on either side were periwinkles in full flower, and she could now see what it was that had caught at her the night before and brushed, wet and scented, across her face. It was wistaria. Wistaria and sunshine . . . she remembered the advertisement. Here indeed were both in profusion. The […]

Kirjaluotsi Blackstone Publishing, Iso-Britannia, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, von Arnim Elizabeth 20/07/2021 4 kommenttia 5 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves | Naistenviikkohaaste 2021

There was a general air of relief to be safely back indoors, for the party to begin ‘properly’. A quick glance round the room told Emma that it was not a very interesting gathering, or at least it did not look to be, for most of the people standing round, clutching glasses of sherry or […]

Kirjaluotsi Bello, Iso-Britannia, Pym Barbara, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus 19/07/2021 4 kommenttia 4 min lukuaika Lue lisää

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