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Quicksands: A Memoir

Quicksands: A Memoir more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

In this sequel to JIGSAW, Sybille Bedford (b. 1911) writes about her fascinating and decidedly unusual upbringing. Her father was a connoisseur of the good life who taught her how to uncork wine when she was seven years old. Her mother left the family when Sybille was a child, moving to various exotic locations with her aristocratic Italian ...

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Aldous Huxley: A Biography

Aldous Huxley: A Biography more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

A close friend of Huxley's, Sybille Bedford was chosen to write his official biography in 1973.

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Visit to Don Otavio

Visit to Don Otavio more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

Sybille Bedford's delightfully amusing account of her travels in Mexico in the years after World War II is a classic of travel writing.

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A Legacy

A Legacy more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

Against the background of the Kaiser's Germany - dotty, militaristic, doomed - and the Europe of which it forms a part, two families are joined in marriage. Out of this marriage emerges a political and social legacy that is both funny and profound. By the author of "The Faces of Justice".

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Favourite of the Gods

Favourite of the Gods more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

One autumn in the late 1920s, a beautiful woman called Constanza boards a train to Brussels and a new marriage. With her is her young daughter, who is going to England. An odd incident interrupts their journey, and Constanza makes a decision that changes the course of both their lives.

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Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education

Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

Between the first and second world wars, Sybille Bedford's heroine--whose life is based on her own--lives with her mother after her parents' divorce, settling finally in London where their friends include real people, among them Aldous Huxley and his wife.

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Pleasures and Landscapes: A Traveller's Tales from Europe

Pleasures and Landscapes: A Traveller's Tales from Europe more books like this

by Sybille Bedford, Jan Morris (Introduction by)

The eight classic essays in this collection reveal what happened to the author when, at the peak of her literary powers, she traveled through France, Italy, and the rest of Europe for "Vogue, Esquire" and other magazines.

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Aldous Huxley : a biography. Vol.2, 1939-1963 more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

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Jigsaw: 2an Unsentimental Education: A Biographical Novel

Jigsaw: 2an Unsentimental Education: A Biographical Novel more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

An autobiographical novel based on Sybille Bedford's highly unusual childhood, moving from a south-German Schloss full of animals and expensive wines to a nonconformist family in the North of England.

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Favourite of the God more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

Costanza is half Italian, half American, and she has led a charmed life. As she ages, however, she begins to wonder what her life is really about, and to find it wanting. Her quest for meaning forms the basis for this classic novel by one of England's most revered writers.

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A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico

A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

The tale begins at Grand Central Station with an impetuous decision, continues with a nightmarish train journey, and then reveals the landscapes and people of Mexico with such a light touch that even the dullest patch of history becomes fascinating Although Bedford is frank about the horrors of travel, the highlight is the author's idyllic stay ...

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As it was : pleasures, landscapes and justice more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

Sybille Bedford, whose last book, "Jigsaw", was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, writes on travel, evoking Europe and the past, and justice, with accounts of the "Lady Chatterley's Lover" case and the trials of, among others, Jack Ruby and 22 former staff of Auschwitz.

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Compass Error

Compass Error more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

While her mother travels with a new lover, Flavia, daughter of the Mondaine Constanza, lives alone in a Provencal villa, Studying for Oxford entrance, she is taken up and seduced by the wife of a fashionable painter, doomed to betrayal, the idealistic Flavia discovers her true inheritance.

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Visit to Don Octavio more books like this

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Sybille Bedford's delightfully amusing account of her travels in Mexico in the years after World War II is a classic of travel writing.

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The faces of justice. more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

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Sudden View: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

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Jigsaw : an unsentimental education : a biographical novel

by Sybille Bedford

An autobiographical novel based on Sybille Bedford's highly unusual childhood, moving from a south-German Schloss full of animals and expensive wines to a non-conformist family in the North of England.

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The trial of Dr. Adams. more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

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Jigsaw.

by Sybille Bedford

Trying to bridge the gap between the two styles of composition of the autobiography and the novel, this book is based on the author's unusual childhood in Germany, Italy, Provence and England. Her other books include "A Legacy", "Aldous Huxley" and "The Faces of Justice".

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Aldous Huxley more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

A close friend of Huxley's, Sybille Bedford was chosen to write his official biography in 1973.

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The sudden view; a Mexican journey more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

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The faces of justice : a traveller's report more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

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The best we can do. more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

Written by the same author as "The Sudden View" and "A Legacy" this is a drama centering around the Old Bailey courtroom during the longest murder trial ever. Like the case, the book is an account of the events during the trial which led to the acquittal of the suspected murderer.

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Zu Besuch Bei Don Otavio

by Sybille; Spiel Bedford, Christian

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Adolus Huxley : a biography more books like this

by Sybille Bedford

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