Margery Sharp
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An unconventional parlor maid upends the lives of an aristocratic family in New York Times–bestselling author Margery Sharp's delightful comedy of manners set in England before the onset of World War II Cluny Brown has committed an unforgivable sin: She refuses to know her place. Last week, she took herself to tea at the Ritz. Then she spent almost an entire day in bed eating oranges. To teach her discipline, her uncle, a plumber who has raised...
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With heartfelt drama, wit, and brilliant historical detail, this masterfully told family saga spans the Victorian era and World War II and features an unpredictable and passionate heroine who defies the English class system Around the corner from the elegant townhouses on Albion Place is Britannia Mews, a squalid neighborhood where servants and coachmen live. In 1875, it's no place for a young girl of fine breeding, but independent-minded Adelaide...
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Set in 1930s France, Margery Sharp's witty, warm-hearted novel tells the story of a free-spirited mother who is reunited with her very proper daughter after sixteen years, when her daughter asks her to inspect her fiancé Julia Packett has barely laid eyes on her daughter, Susan, since leaving her with her proper, well-heeled in-laws after her husband was killed in World War I. Now thirty-seven, her lack of prospects hasn't dimmed her spirit or appetite...
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Sentimental, affectionate, uncritical, Mrs. Bracken so easily attached herself to persons, places, and even objects that after no more than two days in an hotel she had a favourite waiter, a favourite ornament, a favourite view. She had adored her husband, and was very fond of her French pepper-mill.
World War II has ended and widowed Isabel Brocken, kind-hearted and generous if perhaps just a bit foolish, is back in her old family home on the outskirts...
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Lisbeth Campion was, engaged, as usual, in resisting advances.
Arthur Alfred Partridge, a middle-aged widower with a drab job and a frustrated sense of adventure, gets more than he bargained for when he encounters the irresistible Lisbeth Campion, whose troubles go well beyond her plethora of suitors. She's particularly concerned about her wastrel brother Ronny, fresh from six months in prison for peddling cocaine (he thought it was baking powder,...
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In 1950s London, a career girl decides it's high time she snared herself a husband, in Margery Sharp's high-spirited New York Times–bestselling novel Professional dog photographer Louisa Datchett is indiscriminately fond of men. And men take shocking advantage of her good nature when they need their problems listened to, their socks washed, their prescriptions filled, and employment found. But by the age of thirty, Louisa is tired of constantly...
7) Cluny Brown
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Año 1938. Arnold Porritt, un próspero fontanero londinense, ya no sabe qué hacer con las extravagancias de su sobrina Cluny. Después de frecuentar el Ritz como una gran señora y de dejarse seducir alegremente por un cliente, su tío decide mandarla como sirvienta a Friars Carmel, una encantadora mansión campestre.
Allí la esperan, entre otros, lady Carmel, su patrona, siempre metida entre sus flores; su hijo Andrew, que acaba de traerse de...
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After ten years, a successful painter returns to Paris and the son she left behind on her ex-lover's doorstep, in Margery Sharp's sparkling novel that features the artistic heroine of Martha in Paris After studying with le maître in Paris for a year, Martha returned to England to pursue her artistic destiny. Ten years later, she is an enormous success. But when she returns to Paris to attend an exhibition of her work, she must face some unfinished...
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It was indeed very difficult for the Laventie children not to be a little priggish.
Ann Laventie, the youngest of three children in a long line of anti-social Sussex gentry, doesn't quite fit the mould of her intellectual, elegant, ultra-modern siblings Dick, an artist, and Elizabeth, a high-brow writer. Their father is scholarly and just wealthy enough to focus all his attention on reading and other highbrow pursuits. Ann, on the other hand, worries...
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Tras la muerte de su joven marido en la Gran Guerra, Julia Packett decidió dejar a su hija Susan con su aristocrática suegra e irse a Londres a perseguir su sueño de ser actriz. Ahora, a sus 37 años y sin blanca, recibe una carta en la que Susan le anuncia sus planes de boda. Con un renovado espíritu maternal, Julia agarra sus escasos bártulos y viaja a Les Sapins, la preciosa villa alpina donde veranean la abuela Packett, Susan y Bryan Relton,...
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"It's in my mind to put an end to this heathen wickedness that's stalking abroad through Gillenham. It's in my mind to terrify that evil man from his morrow's sinful doings."
"We'll be going to Old Manor, then?"
"Not yet," said Mrs. Pye grimly. "We go first to the village. To rouse the women... "
Professor Pounce arrives in the idyllic village of Gillenham, along with his sister-in-law, his nephew Nicholas, and Carmen, his voluptuous assistant, in...
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A young woman sent to Paris to study painting learns lessons about life and love in Margery Sharp's sparkling novel that features the now-grown-up artistic little girl who first appeared in The Eye of Love Eighteen-year-old Martha is blessed with the opportunity of a lifetime: an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris to study where some of the world's greatest painters lived and worked. Despite her single-minded pursuit of creativity, she attracts an...
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Margery Sharp's enchanting New York Times–bestselling novel about the profound ways that love can change our view of other people and the world around us Miss Dolores Diver and Harry Gibson have been passionately in love ever since they met at the Chelsea Arts Ball: He came as a brown paper parcel, she as a Spanish dancer. Only the eye of love could have transformed plain Dolores into a Spanish rose and stout Harry into the man of Dolores's dreams....
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In Victorian England, a glamorous, mysterious young woman overturns the lives of a traditional Devonshire farm family, in Margery Sharp's humorous, heartwarming New York Times–bestselling novel On a farm in Devonshire, during a long hot summer, three women await the arrival of a fourth. The corseted, petticoated Sylvesters are no ordinary females. They are as fair-tempered as they are big and strong, the wives of modestly prosperous farmers who...
15) Four Gardens
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She announced herself, rather self-consciously, as Mrs. Henry Smith, and he replied that Mrs. Cornwallis was expecting her. To Caroline, following him through a wide shabby hall, the whole episode was, beginning to feel like a nightmare. She was intensely conscious of herself-of her dress, her voice, the way she placed her feet. She felt like a cook-general going to be, interviewed.
"Mrs. Henry Smith," said the butler contemptuously.
In Four Gardens,...
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He also made himself a weekly allowance of five shillings for cigarettes, stationery, amusements, shoe-repairs, razor blades, laundry, toothpaste, hospitality and 'bus fares; and having thus cut his coat to his cloth, wore it in great content.
The only thing he had not allowed for (and this in an author must surely be, considered strange) was Love.
Upon the death of his distant, unaffectionate father, Alistair French, a young store clerk, takes his...
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A Jazz Age socialite impulsively adopts an orphaned boy in this humorous, heartwarming tale from New York Times–bestselling author Margery Sharp In 1929 London, twenty-eight-year-old Lesley Frewen lives a privileged, cultured life. But one thing is missing: love. When her aunt's female companion dies suddenly, leaving behind a young son, Lesley decides on a whim to adopt four-year-old Patrick-which is odd, because she doesn't have any particular...
18) The rescuers
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Miss Bianca, a white mouse of great beauty and self-confidence, travels with the ambassador's son to Norway on behalf of the Prisoner's Aid Society in a perilous mission to rescue a poet imprisoned in the dreadful Black Castle.
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The rescuers: A shy but brave mouse and his glamorous partner embark on a mission to save a young girl named Penny. With their albatross friend, they find themselves on the riverboat hideout of the hilariously evil Madame Medusa.
The rescuers down under: When a poacher sets out to capture a golden eagle in the Outback of Australia, his friend Cody's call for help is answered by the world's bravest mice, Bernard and Bianca, who fly in on the wings...