Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: literature, english, companion, oxford
Number of Pages: 1184
Published: 2000-11-02
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0198662440
ISBN-13: 9780198662440

When the Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature appeared in 1985, it received a glowing front-page review in The New York Times Book Review, which praised it as "a wonderful, infuriating, amusing, and informative war horse of a book." Now comes the new Sixth Edition, thoroughly updated and greatly expanded by editor Margaret Drabble and a team of 140 distinguished contributors, who include Salmon Rushdie, Brian Aldiss, Penelope Fitzgerald, Ian Buruma, and Michael Holroyd. Readers will find over 660 new entries, over a third of which were written by Drabble herself,

Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: lady, sea
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-05-07
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0151012636
ISBN-13: 9780151012633

Margaret Drabble has brought all her many gifts to bear in this excellent novel, The Sea Lady. It is scientific, sociological, romantic, psychological, ironic, satiric, poignant, downright funny, and even rather mysterious in some parts. It is the story of Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, now in their sixties and traveling--separately--to receive honorary degrees from a university in Ornemouth, a town on the North Sea. They met in Ornemouth when they were children, spent one summer together along with a local boy, Sandy Clegg, and Ailsa’s brother, Tommy. It was that kind of summer which

Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
Keywords: waterfall
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1998-01-03
List price: $14.45
ISBN-10: 0140033173
ISBN-13: 9780140033175

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 powerfull novel about sexual awakening and obsession - and the violent conflicts of maternal and sexual love.

Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Thames & Hudso
Keywords: britain, writer
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-09-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0500514933
ISBN-13: 9780500514931

“Deserves to become a classic. . . . It greatly enriches one’s sense of the British countryside to see it this way, through the eyes of poets and novelists down the centuries.”—Christian Science Monitor 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

Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: exmoor, witch
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1998-10-15
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0156006049
ISBN-13: 9780156006040

In a “profoundly moving, intellectually acute” novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is “as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh” (Los Angeles Times), Margaret Drabble conjures up a retired writer besieged by her three grasping children in this dazzling, wickedly gothic tale.

Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Keywords: way, radiant
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1998-01-03
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 0140101683
ISBN-13: 9780140101683

Twenty five years ago Liz, Alix and Esther were leading lights at Cambridge. Now they meet as old friends at a glittering New Year’s Eve party to welcome in the 1980s. It is the dawn of the Thatcher era, and Britain is on the brink of great social and political upheaval. How will these three ambitious and confident middle-aged women survive the personal and professional challenges, and the changing values of the next decade? The Radiant Way brilliantly explores their loves, losses, hopes and fears, and the strength of their friendship.

Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: queen, red
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2005-10-03
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156032708
ISBN-13: 9780156032704

Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn’t know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in extraordinary detail the ways of the Korean court and confesses the family dramas that left her childless and her husband dead by his own hand. When a Korean man Barbara meets at her hotel offers to guide her to some of the haunts of the crown