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What Did It Mean?: Volume 23

What Did It Mean?: Volume 23 - Paperback

by Angela Thirkell
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Availability:In StockContributor:Angela ThirkellSeries:Barsetshire NovelsPublish date:02/04/25Pages:356
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road MediaISBN-13:9781504092906ISBN-10:1504092902UPC:9781504092906Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Small Town & Rural, World Literature, HumorousBook Topic:EnglandSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 1.00 inchesProduct ID:SCQ24VDT7W
As Elizabeth II's coronation draws near, the gentry of Barsetshire engage in preparations, committee meetings, and "their perennially amusing antics" (The New York Times).

A new queen is about to be crowned, and the prominent families of Barsetshire intend to make a good impression amid the festivities. Fortunately, the highly capable Lydia Merton takes the helm of the local committee planning for the big event. All she needs to do is keep calm and carry on through the squabbling, the petty jealousies, and the occasional disaster . . .

"The Thirkell wit presides with tongue-rolling malice." --The New York Times

"Where Trollope would have been content to arouse a chuckle, [Thirkell] is constantly provoking us to hilarious laughter. . . . To read her is to get the feeling of knowing Barsetshire folk as well as if one had been born and bred in the county." --Kirkus Reviews
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road MediaISBN-13:9781504092906ISBN-10:1504092902UPC:9781504092906Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Small Town & Rural, World Literature, HumorousBook Topic:EnglandSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 1.00 inchesProduct ID:SCQ24VDT7W
Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was a British author whose ability to produce one book a year, every year, and set in that year blurred the lines between novelist and social historian. Like so many of the writers that she admired--Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Eliot--Thirkell shared their X-ray vision: an unmatched ability to assess the hypocrisies, desires, and prejudices of her characters and, better still, play them for laughs. Her biggest literary project, the Barsetshire Chronicles, consists of twenty-nine novels, each acting as another slice of English country life; a utopian vision of bucolic countryside, grand manors, and village f?tes.
Publisher: Open Road Media

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