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The Music at Long Verney
The Music at Long Verney
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"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 Y... more ». 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."
Author:
"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 Y... more ». 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."
ISBN-13: 9781582432489
ISBN-10: 1582432481
Publication Date: 5/1/2003
Pages: 192
Rating: 1
ISBN-10: 1582432481
Publication Date: 5/1/2003
Pages: 192
Rating: 1
5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review
Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> Short Stories & Anthologies >> Short Stories
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( M ) >> Maxwell, William
