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Sybille Bedford
The masterfully told story of three generations of women set against the turbulent and exciting backdrop of early twentieth century Europe and America.
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Sybille Bedford’s life contained all the grand feeling and seismic events of the twentieth century: war and peace…
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A classic coming of age novel that explores the lure of the sensual life.
Originally published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, London –Title page verso.
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Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. A trip to Mexico inspired her to write what Bruce…
Showing how history imprints itself on private lives, this memoir presents the author’s sensuous, harrowing, and altogether remarkable life. It moves from Berlin during the Great War to the artists’…
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Novelist Sybille Bedford watched courts closely-and with remarkable insight-in England, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Austria. There, she found stories of human frailty and impulsive action, among both the defendants facing…
‘Bedford writes of the lure of the sensual life, the picnics, lobster salad, hock and seltzer and going to the opera, in Italy, in summer …’ - The Times
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this novel walks the borderline between autobiography and fiction. It picks up where A Legacy leaves off, leading us from the Kaiser’s Germany into the…
In this deeply involved study of the German Upper Class before 1914 , Sybille Bedford has re-created a way of life in a manner that is absorbing, moving and sometimes…
The first full-scale literary trial in Britain’s history - re-counted by the ever-charming and inimitable Sybille Bedford.
Against the background of the Kaiser’s Germany - dotty, militaristic, doomed - and the Europe of which it forms a part, two families are joined in marriage. Out of this…
Originaly published: London: Gollancz, 1953.
A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities…
Sybille 1911-2006 Bedford
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