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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A Few Green Leaves A Few Green Leaves Barbara Pym Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognise as totally famil… OL15830548W
Jane and Prudence Jane and Prudence Barbara Pym Prudence pays Jane a visit in an English village where Jane's husband is the newly appointed vicar, and finds herself courted by a fatuous young widower. Prudence, at twenty-nine, has achieved nothin… OL15843567W
Less Than Angels Less Than Angels Barbara Pym Catherine Oliphant writes for women’s magazines and lives comfortably with anthropologist Tom Mallow—although she’s starting to wonder if they’ll ever get married. Then Tom drops his bombshell: he’s … OL16072247W
Some tame gazelle Some tame gazelle Barbara Pym The Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Then, into their quiet lives comes a famous librarian, Nathaniel Mold, and a bishop from Africa, Theodore Grote - who each take to callin… OL19705636W
Less than angels Less than angels Barbara Pym Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her atte… OL22125395W
Crampton Hodnet Crampton Hodnet Barbara Pym Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate. Of this, M… OL23229624W
A glass of blessing A glass of blessing Barbara Pym,Barbara Pym **From Amazon.com:** **Barbara Pym’s early novel takes us into 1950s England, as seen through the funny, engaging, yearning eyes of a restless housewife** Wilmet Forsyth is bored. Bored with th… OL480930W
Some Tame Gazelle Some Tame Gazelle Barbara Pym Harriet and Belinda Bede are middle-aged sisters who have only two things in common: their spinsterhood and their love for each other. Harriet is a bubbly, chubby coquette. Belinda is a meek, thin ro… OL480951W