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  • The Stone of Chastity
    Margery Sharp
    '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...
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  • Rhododendron Pie
    Margery Sharp
    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 attentio...
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  • Fanfare for Tin Trumpets
    Margery Sharp
    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, u...
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  • Harlequin House
    Margery Sharp
    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 mo...
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  • The Foolish Gentlewoman
    Margery Sharp
    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...
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  • Four Gardens
    Margery Sharp
    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 interview...
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