Synopsis
To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates - chooses to quit his training for the Bar and take a teaching job at Southbridge School. Little does Colin imagine that he will count among his pupils the demon in human form known as Tony Morland; or that the master's ravishing, feather-brained daughter Rose will, with her flights of fancy and many admirers, spread chaos throughout school and village. Humorous, high-spirited and cleverly observed, Summer Half is a comic delight.
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Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.
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Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself
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Knopf June 1938, 1938
ISBN 10: 9997532104
ISBN 13: 9789997532107
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair - Cash. No Jacket. First Edition. First American Edition*** Ex-library and rebound*** Green cover with green and blue design to front and back covers. White lettering and library numbers on the spine. Stain spot to the front bottom corner of cover. Rubbing to corners, edges and spine. Binding slightly tilted. Soiling to pages and creasing to pages. Description of book cut out from DJ and pasted on second ffep with water staining to the edges. Page 11/12 is loose from binding. Ex-library pocket and stamp on bfep. Barcode, stamp and sticker on back paste down. A few pages are torn. Page 195/196 has clear tape. Solid binding. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. Seller Inventory # 883585