Margaret Drabble Books

The colorful, controversial life story of Angus Wilson--one of the most brilliant writers to emerge after World War II--is captured by acclaimed novelist Margaret Drabble. A master chronicler of the foibles of English life, Wilson emerges as an artist of enormous courage, one of the very few who, even in the 1940s, lived as an open homosexual.

The Sixth Edition of this renowned literary reference book has been thoroughly updated and expanded by editor Margaret Drabble and a team of 140 distinguished contributors, including notable authors like Salman Rushdie and Penelope Fitzgerald. This edition features over 660 new entries, with more than a third authored by Drabble herself, encompassing hundreds of new biographies from Kathy Acker to Stefan Zweig, along with fresh entries on genres, literary terms, and critical schools. In total, it offers over 7,000 alphabetically arranged entries, providing extensive coverage of classical English literature and influential European works. The articles encompass authors, fictional characters, plot summaries, composers, artists, literary movements, historians, philosophers, critics, as well as aspects of publishing history, literary societies, and critical theory. Additionally, it includes sixteen new feature essays on topics ranging from gay and lesbian literature to modernism and science fiction, along with a comprehensive chronology that contextualizes key literary works over a thousand years. Complete lists of poet laureates and literary prize winners further enhance its value. With its engaging style, this edition serves as an essential resource for students, teachers, and anyone passionate about English literature.

English archaeologist Frances Wingate, divorced mother of four, and distinguished scholar Karel Schmidt, selfless and marriage-imprisoned, stay-at-home, come inexorably together once more after years of on-again, off-again romance.

"Wuthering Heights", Emily Bronte's only novel, is one of the pinnacles of 19th-century English literature. It's the story of Heathcliff, an orphan who falls in love with a girl above his class, loses her, and devotes the rest of his life to wreaking revenge on her family.

Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this revised edition, existing entries have been fully updated and 60 new entries have been added on contemporary writers, such as Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, and Jeanette Winterson. New appendices include a chronology of English literature, and a listing of major literary prize-winners.

The classic bigraphy of Queen Victoria, reissued in advance of the centenary of her death. Lady Longford regards her with undisguised affection and respect - respect for the iron sense of duty which impelled the secluded widow to emerge at last and rule her empire as a mother, her family as a Queen.

Perec was a leading exponent of French literary surrealism who found humour - and pathos - in the human need for classification. Thoughts of Sorts is itself unclassifiable, a unique collection of philosophical riffs on his obsession with lists, puzzles, catalogues, and taxonomies. Introduced by Margaret Drabble.

Collects three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors: Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon. This book examines the works in the context of her major novels and her life, and discusses the social background of her fiction.

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties

Een Engelsman en een Amerikaan worden verliefd op hetzelfde meisje; zij vraagt een guru om raad.

Story about the difficulties of marriage and family life in an unglamorous North London environment.

Poet Jane Gray, whose husband has left her shortly before the birth of their second child, falls passionately in love with James, the husband of Lucy - Jane's cousin and her friend. Their adulterous affair remains secret until a tragic accident exposes it to the world and they have to face the consequences! The Waterfall is a powerful novel about sexual awakening and obsession - and the violent conflicts of maternal and sexual love.

Liz, Alix and Esther were among the most brilliant of their generation. To these three gifted and ambitious young women, fresh from Cambridge in the 1950s, the world offered its riches ...On New Year's Eve 1979 they reunite. What does the future now hold for Liz, assured Harley Street psychotherapist, wife, mother and stepmother; for relentlessly well-intentioned Alix, teaching English literature to young girl offenders; and for Esther, eccentric connoisseur of art and resolutely single. Margaret Drabble's magnificent novel explores the lives of these three women, and in telling of their loves and losses, their hopes and fears, she creates an unforgettable panorama of our changing times. 'A sublime example of Miss Drabble's mastery in unravelling the intricacies of intimate relationships' - The Times'The Radiant Way shows a Dickensian desire to encompass the whole of contemporary British life, with its widening social and regional gulfs ... Humane, intelligent

A constellation of lives in the hard-pressed England of the sixties and seventies, each at a crucial point of change. At the center: an energetic, interesting woman at midlife, a pretty ex-actress anxiously caring for her family while experimenting inside a new, generous, romantic relationship; and her lover, a handsome man of tact and feeling, dissatisfied with his past, leaving his respectable BBC job and entering the excitements and corruptions of high (chancy) finance. Around them, others who represent facets of their future: a real estate tycoon enmeshed in a tricky, ambitious enterprise that has catastrophically backfired; a young rogue of a girl poised between the joys of being kept by an adventurer and a longing for respectable marriage; and a troubled teenager testing her mother's love while involved in a terrifying imbroglio behind the Iron Curtain.

The second in Margaret Drabble's trilogy, following The Radiant Way

A story of two sisters--one beautiful and enigmatic, the other high-spirited, introspective, and entirely delightful--and of their subtly changing relationship with each other

One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Margaret Drabble is an unmatched observer of postwar English lives, portraying social change, sexual liberation, landscape, class and the messy complications of human relationships with intricacy and honesty. In these two stories of lives colliding, a mother buying a birthday gift has her dreams destroyed, and a honeymoon leads to an unexpected epiphany.

Novel - Howard Kirk is the trendiest of radical tutors at a fashionable university campus. A self-appointed revolutionary hero, Howard always comes out on top. And Malcolm Bradbury dissects him in this savagely funny novel that has been universally acclaimed as one of the masterpieces of the decade.

A portrait of four generations of one family, this story explores themes of inheritance, DNA, the individual's place in history and fate. It spans from Bessie Bawtry, a small child living in a Yorkshire mining town in 1905, to her granddaughter, listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance.

The story revolves around a retired writer who faces the relentless demands of her three ambitious children. Set against a backdrop that blends gothic elements with sharp wit, the narrative explores themes of familial obligation and the complexities of parent-child relationships. Drabble's writing is noted for its meticulousness and intellectual depth, drawing comparisons to literary greats like Jane Austen and Evelyn Waugh, while delivering a profoundly moving experience.

An original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression.The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveries about jigsaw puzzles — did you know that the 1929 stock market crash was followed by a boom in puzzle sales? — Drabble introduces us to her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their first trip to London together, the books they read, the jigsaws they completed. She offers penetrating sketches of her parents, her siblings, and her children; she shares her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, on art and writing, on aging and memory. And she does so with her customary intelligence, energy, and wit. This is a memoir like no other.

When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room, walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London--and begins to pour her soul into a diary. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? In a voice that is pitch-perfect, Candida describes her health club, her social circle, and her attempts at risk-taking in her new life. She begins friendships of sorts with other women-widowed, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then there is a surprise pension-fund windfall.

200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell, with her own complicated past, is the perfect envoy. Why does the Red Queen pick Babs to keep her story alive, and what else does she want from her? A terrific novel set in 18th century Korea and the present day, The Red Queen is a rich and atmospheric novel about love, and what it means to be remembered.

Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious; he, quietly studious; both fascinated by the other. Years later, their lives collide as adults and burst into an intense yet brief love affair. Now, after thirty years apart and at the close of the 20th century, their lives are converging once again as they hurtle towards each other by plane and train - their motivations, regrets and decisions laid bare.With the gloriously astute eye that Margaret Drabble is celebrated for, The Sea Lady is an account of first and last love; of the lapping of time at our ankles, gradually eroding and shaping our lives.

The love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman. Here, the renowned author Margaret Drabble presents an image of Britain as seen by writers of different regions and periods, illuminating the ways in which their work has shaped our visual attitudes, taste in landscape, and relation to nature. For this new edition of her engaging study, Ms. Drabble has made corrections and updates to the text throughout and written a new epilogue.

Das spurlose Verschwinden ihrer Mutter in der englischen Provinz sorgt bei den in London lebenden erwachsenen Kindern für Fassungslosigkeit, aber auch für Besorgnis wegen des nun ungewissen Erbes der unberechenbaren Frau.

Forts. von: Die Begierde nach Wissen. - Anlass für einen Rückblick auf die Umbrüche der letzten Jahre ist ein geheimnisvolles Päckchen, das Liz aus Bangkok erhält. Es führt auf die Spur ihres verschollenen Freundes.

Dotek lásky, jehož filmová verze byla uvedená i u nás. Zachycuje problémy určitého typu dnešní mladé ženy, problémy jaké ještě neznala generace našich babiček . Jde o dívku zaměřenou rozumově, ctižádostivou ve svém povolání a ve své vědecké práci. V citové oblasti je ostýchavá, neprůbojná a bedlivě si střeží své soukromí. Když se do jejího života vloudí hluboký cit a mladá žena zápasí se změněnou životní perspektivou, to je obsahem této nevšední knihy.

Margaret Drabblová patrí medzi významné súčasné anglické prozaičky, ktorej diela vychádzajú zväčša v niekoľkých vydaniach a získavajú si čoraz väčší okruh čitateľov svojím spracovaním a osobitým prístupom k téme. Jej romány sú psychologické a s obľubou sa koncentrujú na duševnýsvet ženy, ktorý autorka odhaľuje priam so zarážajúcou úprimnosťou, bez pretvárky, bez pátosu. V románe Vodopád ide konkrétne o problém manželskej nevery a v širšom kontexte o problém spolužitia muža a ženy. Hrdinka sa po narodení druhého dieťaťa odpúta od manžela a nadviaže nový vzťah s mužom svojej sesternice. Vtedy sa jej predošlý život, vzťah k deťom, k okoliu, začína javiť v inom, novom svetle a rozpráva. Na to, aby dosiahla väčšiu účinnosť svojich výpovedí, uchyľuje sa k netradičnému spôsobu: úvahy o novom partnerovi uvádza v tretej osobe, svoje výpovede zasa v prvej. Ide jej predovšetkým o objektívnosť pri zachytení svojich pocitov a pohnútok, ktoré chce takto podčiarknuť. Drabblová však veľmi vnímavo opisuje nielen vnútorný svet svojej hrdinky, ale aj spoločenské vzťahy v Anglicku, predsudky, falošnú nadradenosť a povýšenectvo, ktoré pomáhajú istým spoločenským vrstvám prežiť vlastnú bezvýznamnosť. Román je spracovaný na vysokej umeleckej úrovni a vnímavému čitateľovi prinesie hlboký zážitok.