The Doll's House and Other Stories
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Recently discovered in the New York Public Library archives, these four short stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner are as sharply insightful and observant as all her writing. They are published for the first time exclusively in ebook format alongside the new editions of her celebrated novels The Corner that Held Them and Lolly Willowes, which have brand new introductions by Philip Hensher and Sarah Waters.
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- ISBN: 9781405517331
- Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Pub date: 20.12.03
- RRP: $10.99
- Format: Electronic book text
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
In 1925 Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) published her first book of verse, The Espalier. With the publication of her novels Lolly Willowes in 1926 and Mr Fortune's Maggot and The True Heart in the following two years, she achieved immediate recognition, and the short stories she contributed to the New Yorker over forty years cemented her reputation on both sides of the Atlantic. In all, she published seven novels, four volumes of poetry and eighteen volumes of short stories. Sylvia Townsend Warner lived most of her life with her partner Valentine Ackland in Dorset and Norfolk. She died in Dorset on 1 May 1978.
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