Civil to Strangers and Other Writings by Barbara Pym

Civil to Strangers and Other Writings by Barbara Pym

Thanks to his wife's money, Adam Marsh-Gibbon leads a charmed life writing poetry and novels celebrated mostly by his fellow residents in the town of Up Callow in Shropshire, England. His lovely wife Cassandra caters to his every whim, although perhaps not as enthusiastically as five years earlier, when she first married her handsome yet difficult and unappreciative husband. Into their lives steps Mr. Stefan Tilos, the new tenant of Holmwood, a dashing Hungarian who puts the whole town in a flutter. How alarming then, that he should become so visibly enamoured of Cassandra. Mrs. Marsh-Gibbon is certainly above reproach. Or is she? Barbara Pym wrote Civil to Strangers in 1936. It was first published posthumously in 1987, thanks to her friend and biographer Hazel Holt.

BARBARA PYM, a writer from the age of sixteen, has been dubbed the most undervalued writer of the century (Philip Larkin). Pym's illustrious name grew during the course of six books published between 1950 and 1961, then restarted in 1977 with the publication of Quartet in Autumn and three additional works. In 1980, she passed away.

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ISBN 13	9781603811804
ISBN 10	160381180X
Title	Civil to Strangers and Other Writings
Author	Barbara Pym
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Coffeetown Press
Year published	2013-05-15
Number of pages	294
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