A Different Sound by X Various Authors
These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are rewritten, social customs are revoked and new freedoms are embraced. Selected and introduced by writer and critic Lucy Scholes, this collection places works from renowned women writers alongside recently rediscovered voices. Suffused with tension and longing, they form a window onto a remarkable era of writing. Contains: 'The Cut Finger' by Frances Bellerby, 'Summer Night' by Elizabeth Bowen, 'The Birds' by Daphne du Maurier, 'The Land Girl' by Diana Gardner, 'Listen to the Magnolias' by Stella Gibbons, 'Shocking Weather, Isn't It?' by Inez Holden, 'The First Party' by Attia Hosain, 'Three Miles Up' by Elizabeth Jane Howard, 'The Skylight' by Penelope Mortimer, 'The Thames Spread Out' by Elizabeth Taylor and 'Scorched Earth Policy' by Sylvia Townsend Warner-
The Living Stones
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Ice
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Kokoro
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The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man
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Goose of Hermogenes
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Beware of Pity
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The Crying of the Wind
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The Samurai
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Journey by Moonlight
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And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon
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Parisian Days
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Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
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The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
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Flight Without End
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Wolf Moon
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Effi Briest
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The Beauties
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Background for Love
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Gothic Tales
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The Evenings
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Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub
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The Pendragon Legend
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The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
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Nocturnal Apparitions
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The Book of Paradise
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Hidden Faces
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In Farthest Seas
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The Last Miracle: Jewish Stories
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The Story of a Single Woman
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The Hunting Gun
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The Allure of Chanel
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The Friend of the Family
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Weights and Measures
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I Was Jack Mortimer
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Death in Venice
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Notes from Fuhrer HQ
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Troubled Waters
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Sevastopol Tales
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Love and Enchantment
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Conversations with Rilke
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The Siren's Lament
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Birds, Beasts and a World Made New
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Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner
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A Time to Be Born
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No Way Back
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Poems to Night
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Yevgeny Onegin
'As well as introducing some little-known writers, Lucy Scholes offers a way of seeing women's writing differently' - Times Literary Supplement
'A glorious collection - I've pressed this beautiful book into countless hands.. old favourites and new gems combined' - Francesca Segal
'A glorious collection - I've pressed this beautiful book into countless hands.. old favourites and new gems combined' - Francesca Segal
Lucy Scholes is Senior Editor at McNally Editions, a series of paperbacks devoted to hidden gems. She hosts OurShelves, a podcast from the legendary feminist publishing house Virago, and wrote 'Re-Covered', a column for the Paris Review about out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn't be.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782278498 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782278494 |
| Title | A Different Sound |
| Author | X Various Authors |
| Series | Pushkin Press Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2024-02-29 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |