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Towers of Trebizond
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In Rose Macaulay's zanily brilliant last novel, a group of British eccentrics travel to Turkey on a missionary expedition to convert the Muslims. Chief among them is the narrator Laurie's Aunt Dot, whose wacky zeal, unsurprisingly, fails to inspire one single conversion. Macaulay's book not only tells its satirical story, it also provides a ...
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Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal
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Reproduced ieith permission from Arcktw Mas PALACIO DEL MARQUES DE DOS AQUAS, VALENCIA FROM THE PYRENEES TO PORTUGAL BY ROSE MACAULAY HAMISH HAMILTON LONDON First published in Great Britain, April 1949 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Second Impression, May ip p Third Impression, October 1949 Printed in Great Britain by Butler Tanner Ltd, , Frome and ...
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Pleasure of ruins
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The World My Wilderness
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Banished by her mother to England, Barbara is thrown into the ordered formality of English life. Confused and unhappy, she discovers the wrecked and flowering wastes around St Paul's, where she finds an echo of the wilderness of Provence and is forced to confront the wilderness within herself.
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Personal pleasures
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Macaulay charmingly catalogues things that make her happy, from catalogues to Christmas to the joy of seeing visitors depart.
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Dangerous Ages
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Nan is a young novelist who has a large family. Her grandmother lives with her widowed mother (a woman who doesn't know what to do with herself now that her children are grown). Her sister, Neville, is similarly in the same predicament (her children having grown and are attending University), except that her husband is too busy pursuing his career ...
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Life Among the English
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This book concerns the social life of the English from the ancient Britons through to the 20th century, finding a similarity of behavior across the centuries, from eating and drinking to dress and sport.
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Told by an Idiot
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Crewe train
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On the death of her father, a retired clergyman, Denham Dobie is forced to leave her wild and carefree life in Spain and is thrust into the gossiping highbrow circle of her well-meaning relatives in London. Thrown into a world of publishers and writers, this awkward young woman--a tomboy and rebel at heart--sees their society for the self-absorbed ...
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They were defeated.
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In this book of tragedy and great beauty, Rose Macaulay's only historical novel, she reveals a lifelong passion for the seventeenth century. Here she interweaves the lives of Robert Herrick and other poets with those of a small group of fictional characters, setting them vividly in one of the most turbulent periods in English history. "The the ...
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Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of ruins
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Rose Macaulay, Dame, Roloff Beny, Constance Babington-Smith
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Potterism
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1920. English novelist Macaulay's early novels were noted for their wit, urbanity and mild satire. Potterism begins: Johnny and Jane Potter, being twins, went through Oxford together. Johnny came up from Rugby and Jane from Roedean. Johnny was at Balliol and Jane at Somerville. Both, having ambitions for literary careers, took the Honours School ...
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Roloff Beny Interprets in Photographs Pleasure of Ruins, by Rose Macaulay: Text Selected and Edited by Constance Badington Smith
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Staying with Relations
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1930. English novelist Macaulay's early novels were noted for their wit, urbanity and mild satire. Staying with Relations begins: Catherine Grey, a young female, and, like so many young females, a novelist, went to America one autumn and lectured to its inhabitants on the Creation of Character in Fiction. Catherine was twenty-seven, but had, ...
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The Writings of E. M. Forster
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Orphan Island
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Milton
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Keeping up appearances
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Some Religious Elements in English Literature
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What the author has tried to do in this book is to select from out of the mass of material a few specimens, as who, randomly diving into an ocean, should return with a handful or two of seaweed or of pebbles, and to proceed to make thereon a scattered kind of a commentary. The theory was that most religious literature was the outcome of some king ...
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The Shadow Flies
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They Were Defeated: The Classic Novel Set in the Reign of King Charles I
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Real 17th-century poets (including Robert Herrick) mingle with fictional characters in a tragic and beautiful historical novel by award-winning author, Rose Macaulay. She paints a vivid portrait of one of England's most turbulent periods. "Her greatest success."--"Observer." "One of the few authors of whom it may be said she adorns the century."-- ...
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Non-combatants and others
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The Lee Shore
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1920 novel by Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, the English novelist. She received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Towers of Trebizond in 1956. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biography and travel.
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They went to Portugal too
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Rose Macaulay, L C Taylor (Editor)
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Potterism, a tragi-farcical tract
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1920 novel by Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, the English novelist. She received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Towers of Trebizond in 1956. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biography and travel.
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