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Good Evening Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

Publisher’s Synopsis

Good Evening, Mrs Craven reprints twenty-one short stories by Mollie Panter-Downes that were first published in The New Yorker between 1939 and 1945 and (with two exceptions) have never been reprinted - until now. They are stories of the highest quality which in our view should be set beside those by Elizabeth Bowen, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Elizabeth Taylor. In each an every story, Mollie Panter-Downes uses language with an insight and a poetic sensibility that is the mark of a great writer. ‘All over London’, she wrote in ‘Fin de Siecle’ (12 July 1941), ‘telephone bells were ringing angrily through empty rooms over which the fine brick dust, seeping in at shuttered windows, was beginning to settle.’ (Persephone Books).

 

Persephone Book No. 8. With Persephone grey wrap cover sunned to spine. With coordinating bookmark matching the end papers. With a new preface by Gregory Lestage. Book in A+ condition. Pre-owned. ISBN: 0953478076

Good Evening Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

SKU: 103373
£12.50Price
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