"Reading these wonderful, almost-lost stories is like finding a buried treasure of fine gold and silver. "--Alison Lurie. Of the previous century's many great storytellers, Sylvia Townsend Warner was the supreme enchantress. The Music at Long Verney collects twenty of her best short stories, most of them from the great years at The New Yorker . They span a full half-century, from 1929 to 1977, and are crowded with irrepressible, living characters and even more animated objects and incidents. There are stories of romantic love and the mysteries of marriage; of artists who speak the truth even as they distort reality; of gardens and houses and very fine things and of those who fancy themselves their owners. The centerpiece of the collection is a series of five linked stories about an eccentric establishment, the Abbey Antiques Gallery, and its singular proprietor, the urbane Mr. Edom. Some of these stories are hilarious, others hauntingly lyrical, but all are incomparably witty and original-in short, they're vintage Warner. "On every page," writes John Updike, "there is something to be seen or smelled or felt...Beneath her refined witchery lies a strange freshness one can only call, in praise, primitive. "
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Sylvia Townsend Warner published some thirty books, among them seven novels and ten collections of short stories. She died in at eighty-four in 1978, in her longtime home, the village of Maiden Newton in Dorset, England.
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These short stories are an excellent description of human emotions. The different points of view of the characters within stories are well presented. The many different characters and locations are beautifully and fully captured. The stories are definitely not all 'upbeat', but they will intrigue you. A good choice when you want to 'get away' for a little while. The book itself is lovely and well made, and the introduction provides information about the author.
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DURING the evening of the day after his twenty-first birthday their son said to them, I might as well tell you now and get it over. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Hartley, Major Barnard, Miss Mainwaring, Long Verney, Uncle Terence, Dull Lodge, Mary Wilkins, New England, Abbey Antique Galleries, Good God, Jane Elphick, Mary Fitzgerald, Miss Cave, Miss Keeling, Church of England, Anthony Simpson, Archdeacon Barnard, Grace Darling, Merley Wood, Miss Conkling, Miss Hobson, North Wood, Pew Green, Rhode Island New!
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DURING the evening of the day after his twenty-first birthday their son said to them, I might as well tell you now and get it over. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Hartley, Major Barnard, Miss Mainwaring, Long Verney, Uncle Terence, Dull Lodge, Mary Wilkins, New England, Abbey Antique Galleries, Good God, Jane Elphick, Mary Fitzgerald, Miss Cave, Miss Keeling, Church of England, Anthony Simpson, Archdeacon Barnard, Grace Darling, Merley Wood, Miss Conkling, Miss Hobson, North Wood, Pew Green, Rhode Island New!
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- A Spirit Rises by Sylvia Townsend Warner in Front Matter
- One Thing Leading to Another by Sylvia Townsend Warner in Front Matter
- The Corner That Held Them (Virago Modern Classics) by Sylvia Townsend Warner in Front Matter
- Lolly Willowes : Or the Loving Huntsman (New York Review Books Classics) by Sylvia Townsend Warner in Front Matter
- The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner in Front Matter
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