SOUL OF KINDNESS (Virago Modern Classics) - Hardcover

Taylor, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0860683451 ISBN 13: 9780860683452

Publisher: Random House, Inc., 1987

Synopsis

Book by Elizabeth Taylor

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) was born in Reading, Berkshire and spent much of her life in Penn, Buckinghamshire. Critically she is one of the most acclaimed British novelists of this century. Virago publishes twelve of her sixteen works of fiction.

Review

The Soul of Kindness, like many of Elizabeth Taylor's novels, is so expert that it seems effortless. As it progresses, it seems as if the cast are so fully rounded that all the novelist had to do was place them, successively, in one setting after another and observe how they reacted to each other ... Taylor is one of the hidden treasures of the English novel―Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph

Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I've returned to her too - in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it―Sarah Waters

Always intelligent, often subversive and never dull, Elizabeth Taylor is the thinking person's dangerous housewife. Her sophisticated prose combines elegance, icy wit and freshness in a stimulating cocktail - the perfect toast to the quiet horror of domestic life―Valerie Martin

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House, Inc.
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0860683451
• ISBN 13: 9780860683452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224