Barbara Pym
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The Sweet Dove Died
$16.95 Add to cartAn acidly funny novel about a woman who falls for a much younger man by one of Britain’s great writers of social comedy, now back in print.
A lesser-known, darker sister to Barbara Pym’s Excellent Wom- Author: Pym, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379759
- Language: English
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Quartet in Autumn
$17.00 Read moreShortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize
This is the story of four people in late middle-age – Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia – whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they- Author: Pym, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 20 1992
- ISBN10: 0452269342
- Language: English
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Some Tame Gazelle
$18.99 Add to cartBarbara Pym’s first novel offers a self-assured slice of small-town life as it takes us into the lives of two sisters living in post-World War II England
Belinda and Harriet Bede live together in a sm… [more below]- Author: Pym, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1480408093
- Language: English
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An Academic Question
$16.95 Add to cartCaro is the wife of Dr. Alan Grimstone, a lecturer at a provincial university in a West Country town in England. She knows her circle believes that she should be doing more with her life. She is the m… [more below]
- Author: Pym, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: May 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1603811788
- Language: English
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Crampton Hodnet
$15.95 Add to cartLife has a certain reassuring if not terribly exciting rhythm for the residents of North Oxford. Miss Morrow is content in her position as spinster companion to Miss Doggett, even if her employer and … [more below]
- Author: Pym, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: May 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1603811761
- Language: English
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Jane and Prudence
$16.99 Add to cartBarbara Pym affectionately skewers the charms, eccentricities, and secret yearnings of British middle-class life
Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live… [more below]- Author: Pym, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1480408069
- Language: English
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No Fond Return of Love
$19.99 Add to cartThree lonely people come together in this poignant and witty novel of thwarted dreams, scandalous secrets, and star-crossed romance
After being jilted by her fiancé, Dulcie Mainwaring despairs of ev… [more below]- Author: Pym, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1480408085
- Language: English
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Excellent Women
$17.00 Add to cart“The finest introduction to Barbara Pym” (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen
One of Barbara Pym’s richest and m- Author: Pym, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 014310487X
- Language: English
