An Academic Question Author:Barbara Pym A previously unpublished Pym, written during the author's "silent" period, this delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery turns a provincial English university into familiar Pym country. Stepping into territory both academic and amorous are a wonderful new band of eccentrics -- including Dolly Arborfield, who quote... more »s Yeats and tends hedgehogs, and the dissatisfied faculty wife, Caroline Grimstone, who becomes an unwilling accomplice to her husband's ambitions and affairs -- and the result is an amusing, incisive excursion into the foibles of the heart.« less