'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn't keep her...'In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman's breakdown in 196...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Penelope Mortimer.
... marvellous skill - a writer who can knock spots off most of her contemporaries. - The Guardian A tragi-comedy published in 1971 that looks at the experience of a woman escap...
The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapi...
Saturday Lunch with the Brownings
Penelope Mortimer · ISBN 9781911547723
Julkaistu 2020 Kieli englanti nidottu
Penelope Mortimer's only collection of short stories. A mother and her young son arrive at a rental house in rural France only to find themselves locked out; a fractious family...
A peakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion--"her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel" (Rachel Cooke, The Observer) A bourgeois hous...
Bevor der letzte Zug fährt
Penelope Mortimer · ISBN 9783038201205
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli saksa sidottu
Daddy's Gone A-hunting
Penelope Mortimer; Valerie Grove · ISBN 9781903155677
Julkaistu 2008 Kieli englanti pokkari
Focuses on the expectations of women, about a house-bound mother reluctantly (desperately) at home all day, in contrast to her daughter who has escaped, to university and then,...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the Un...
The Vanished Mage
Penelope Hill; J.A. Mortimore · ISBN 9781915304087
Julkaistu 2022 Kieli englanti pokkari
The Harlequin
J.A. Mortimore; Penelope Hill · ISBN 9781915304452
Julkaistu 2024 Kieli englanti pokkari
When Penelope O'Shaunessy, "an incoming freshman of average height and lank hair" steps into Harvard Yard for the first time she has lots of advice from her mother: "Don't be to...
Penelope Wilhern has everything a girl could want: A wealthy, socialite family, an enchanted bedroom and some of the coolest clothes around. There is only one problem: She was b...
Let others sing of war and a hero buffeted by fate. I sing of marriage and a marriage bed, and the endurance of love.With an introduction by the author, this is Tom Stoppard in...
It's 11:30 a.m. and already it's ninety-two degrees. At the bottom of a drained swimming pool four ridiculous men connive plot and play for an unwinnable love even as they face...
Penelope Scambly Schott has researched facts and woven them into this poem. She cites her sources and points out fact from fiction. The poems take the reader directly into the m...
Penelope Scambly Schott has researched facts and woven them into this poem. She cites her sources and points out fact from fiction. The poems take the reader directly into the m...
Penelope
W Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham · ISBN 9781023188968
Julkaistu 2025 Kieli englanti pokkari
Penelope
W Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham · ISBN 9781023189026
Julkaistu 2025 Kieli englanti sidottu