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Virago Modern Classics, Fiction, Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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- Paperback Jun 24, 2014 | 9781844089697 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 16, 2015 | 9781405534031 | RRP $33.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 1, 2014 | 9781405528382 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Jun 24, 2014 | 9781844089697 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 16, 2015 | 9781405534031 | RRP $33.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 1, 2014 | 9781405528382 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Virago
- Paperback Jun 24, 2014 | 9781844089697 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 16, 2015 | 9781405534031 | RRP $33.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 1, 2014 | 9781405528382 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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A captivating comic novel from Angela Thirkell's much-loved 1930s Barsetshire series: trainee barrister Colin Keith makes an ill-advised foray into teaching at Southbridge School.
To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates - chooses to quit his training for the Bar and take a teaching job at Southbridge School. Little does Colin imagine that he will count among his pupils the demon in human form known as Tony Morland; or that the master's ravishing, feather-brained daughter Rose will, with her flights of fancy and many admirers, spread chaos throughout school and village. Humorous, high-spirited and cleverly observed, Summer Half is a comic delight.
Praise for Summer Half: A Virago Modern Classic
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Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself - Alexander McCall Smith
Angela Thirkell
Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.
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