Libros de SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes: or, The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner is a witty, strange, and quietly radical novel about independence, solitude, and a woman’s refusal to live the life expected of her.Laura 'Lolly' Willowes has spent years as the dutiful unmarried aunt, absorbed into the routines and needs of her family. Polite, useful, and overlooked, she is treated less as a per...

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Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Lolly Willowes pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.In Sylvia Townsend Warner’s enchanting novel, 'Lolly Willowes or the loving huntsman,' a woman chooses a life less ordinary. Escaping the confines of Edwardian England and the expectations placed upon her, Loll...

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Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner

A woman slips quietly from the shadowy confines of London society into the wild heart of rural England, exchanging drawing rooms for tangled woods and the suffocating gaze of family for the exhilarating solitude of the countryside. In a world where the ordinary collides with the uncanny, she discovers that freedom sometimes wears the guise of witchcraft, and that true independe...

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The Espalier

Sylvia Townsend Warner

'The Espalier' is a profound and evocative collection of poetry that marked the literary debut of Sylvia Townsend Warner. These verses showcase Warner’s unique ability to blend the pastoral traditions of the English countryside with a sharp, modernist sensibility. The poems within this volume traverse themes of rural life, the passage of time, and the quiet complexities of the ...

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Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner

'Lolly Willowes' is a pioneering work of feminist fiction that explores the liberation of a woman from the stifling constraints of domesticity and societal expectations. The story follows Laura Willowes, a middle-aged woman affectionately but dismissively known as 'Lolly' by her relatives, who has spent twenty years serving as the dutiful maiden aunt in her brother’s London hou...

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Mr Fortune’s Maggot

Sylvia Townsend Warner

'Mr Fortune’s Maggot' is a witty and poignant novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner that explores the complexities of faith, culture, and human connection. The story follows Timothy Fortune, a devout ex-clerk turned missionary, who travels to the remote Polynesian island of Fanua with the earnest intention of converting its inhabitants to Christianity. However, upon arrival, he finds...

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Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner is a satirical and feminist novel about a woman named Laura 'Lolly' Willowes who escapes the stifling expectations of her conventional family to live independently in the countryside.After years of dutifully serving her relatives, Lolly moves to a village called Great Mop, where she embraces her true self and discovers a connection with ...

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Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner

In Sylvia Townsend Warner’s enchanting novel, 'Lolly Willowes or the loving huntsman,' a woman chooses a life less ordinary. Escaping the confines of Edwardian England and the expectations placed upon her, Lolly Willowes embraces a different path, one that leads her to the quiet beauty of rural life and a connection to something ancient and powerful.This work of literary fantas...

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Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Considered an early feminist classic, Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes; Or The Loving Huntsman is a fantastical comedy about a middle-aged witch and her search for peace that was selected as the first ever Book of the Month upon publication in 1926.'When her father died, Laura Willowes went to live in London with her elder brother and his family…[she] was a gentle creatu...

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Lolly Willowes (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Set in early twentieth-century England, Lolly Willowes is a satirical comedy of manners and an early feminist classic. With deft storytelling and compelling prose, Sylvia Townsend Warner invites you into a world where convention meets enchantment, where the line between reality and the supernatural is blurred. Lolly Willowes, a woman of quiet rebellion and hidden desires, dares...

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Lolly Willowes or The Loving Huntsman

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes; or The Loving Huntsman is a novel by English writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, her first, published in 1926. It has been described as an early feminist classic.'Lolly' is the version of Laura’s name used by her family after a mispronunciation by a young niece. She comes to dislike being called 'Aunt Lolly' and to see the name as a symbol of her lack of independence...

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Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman (General Press)

Sylvia Townsend Warner

First published in 1926, ’Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman’ is an amusing and witty novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner, an English novelist, poet, and musicologist. In this, Lolly Willowes revolutionaries against coercion to be the perfect ’maiden aunt’. Always so gentle and accommodating, not curious about men or the hustled life of London, suddenly announces that she is mo...

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Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes is a satirical comedy of manners incorporating elements of fantasy. It is the story of a middle-aged spinster who moves to a country village to escape her controlling relatives and takes up the practice of witchcraft. The novel opens at the turn of the twentieth century, with Laura Willowes moving from Somerset to London to live with her brother Henry and his fam...

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