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Alison Lurie
Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty, brave, and resourceful, these girls…
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Nine stories deal with a woman who meets the ghost of her fiance’s first wife, apparitions of obesity, the ghost of a trick-or-treater, a poet shadowed by her double, and…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Alison Lurie’s Foreign Affairs, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Presents fourteen essays on classic and contemporary children’s literature, exploring the lives of notable authors and contending that the best writers for children hold on to some essence of childhood…
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lurie dishes up a surprising satire about two couples making mischief on a college campus.
Her husband, Henry, manages her every need making certain Delia gets everything she desires including spectacular doses of adulation. Can Delia coax Alan out of his grumpiness?
In 1981 Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of…
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In the 1980’s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie wrote a meditation on clothing as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. The Language of Clothes (Random House)…
This engaging new collection of essays from the New York Times-bestselling novelist gathers together her reflections on the writing life; fond recollections of inspiring friends; and perceptive, playful commentary on…
In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a candid portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II…
‘Marvellous entertainment’ Sunday Times Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman.
Are some of the world’s most talented writers of children’s books essentially children themselves?
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In this mix of comedy and analysis, the author recalls American poet James Merrill and his longtime partner, David Jackson, and their lives together in New York, Athens, Stonington, Connecticut…
Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. Things spiral when a protest against a sexist professor at the…
The novel is a comedy of manners which explores the gap between the things that people say in their social relationships, and what they really mean.
‘A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment…steady uninterrupted delight’ Sunday Telegraph Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled.
‘If you’re coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs’ Guardian Vinnie Miner is an American professor of children’s literature on her…
A Pulitzer Prize-winning story which is both a comedy and a poignant love story about two American academics in London. The separate paths of these two lonely and naive innocents…
Alison Lurie (Cornell University)
An artists’ colony is a false paradise for a frustrated writer in this witty, knowing, and perceptive novel from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author (The New Yorker). The mansion is called…
In sixteen spirited essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie, who is also one of our wittiest and most astute cultural commentators, explores the world of children’s literature–from Lewis Carroll to…
J. M. Barrie
Beloved by generations, this world-famous story of the boy who could not grow up is now adapted as a major motion picture from Universal Pictures, scheduled for nationwide release on…
Sylvia Townsend Warner
First published by Viking Press 1926 –T.p. verso.
