Olivia Manning - Böcker

'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' Anthony Burgess 'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivi...

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'Fantastically tart and readable' Sarah Waters 'An important 20th-century writer who paints a complex relationship between gender and power with wit and sensitivity' Lauren Elkin 'These books are clearly among the very best fiction about the Secon...

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Pretty, brave and eighteen, Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. She soon finds it in Quintin Bellot, the handsome but tired dilettante who finds her a job in fashionable Chelsea. But Quintin, the seducer of one dove, is also the husba...

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Orphaned, friendless and bewildered, young Felix Latimer comes to war-time Jerusalem to lodge with Miss Bohun, one of the most redoubtable (and ridiculous) of comic horrors in English fiction.

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'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' Anthony Burgess'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid...

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From one of the classic writers of post-war English literature comes a stunning novel of love, betrayal and redemption. Married but obstinately set in their separate ways, Hugh and Kristy Foster know nothing of Al-Bustan, a far-flung island in the...

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'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverAthens, 1941. Harriet Pringle feverishly awaits news of her husband, trapped in ...

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'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday Telegraph'Wonderfully entertaining' - Observe...

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Autumn, 1939. Newly-weds Guy and Harriet Pringle step aboard the train to Bucharest. Guy's lecturing job awaits, alongside friends and the ever-ardent Sophie - but for Harriet, alone and naive, it's a strange new life. As Guy's world collides with...

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A sweeping adaptation of Olivia Manning's classic war novels, starring Joanna Lumley and Honeysuckle Weeks'A rare and many-layered pleasure' Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph1939, and naive young newlywed Harriet Pringle arrives in Bucharest with he...

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'Fantastically tart and readable' Sarah Waters'An important 20th-century writer who paints a complex relationship between gender and power with wit and sensitivity' Lauren Elkin'These books are clearly among the very best fiction about the Second ...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK 'A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war' Sarah Waters 'Wonderfully entertaining' Observer Autumn, 1939. Newly-weds Guy and Harriet Pringle step aboard the tra...

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'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times 'Wonderfully entertaining' - Observer Athens, 1941. Harriet Pringle feverishly awaits news of her husband, trapped i...

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'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess 'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday Telegraph 'Wonderfully entertaining' - Obser...

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Harriet Pringle fÿhrt mit ihrem Mann im Zug durch ein vom Krieg bedrohtes Europa Richtung Osten. Guy arbeitet seit Lÿngerem in Bukarest, nun nimmt er seine junge Braut mit in diese Metropole zwischen Moderne und orientalischem Durcheinander, ein...

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Als Burger des Vereinigten Konigreichs waren sie Achtung, ja Bewunderung gewohnt. Doch im Jahr 1940 wird es fur Harriet und Guy Pringle in Bukarest zunehmend ungemutlich. Sie spuren den Stimmungswechsel, in den Cafes ubersieht man sie, die rumanis...

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Harriet Pringle ist vor dem Einmarsch der Deutschen in Rumÿnien nach Athen entkommen. Nervös wartet sie auf Nachrichten ihres Mannes Guy, der immer noch in Bukarest festsitzt. Als die beiden endlich unter griechischer Sonne wiedervereint sind, a...

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