Crewe Train

Name: Crewe Train
Brand: Little, Brown Book Group
Price: 12.74 EUR
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★★★★★

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English

By (author): Rose Macaulay

Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of 'civilised' behaviour. CREWE TRAIN is one of Macaulay's wittiest satires. The reactions of Denham to the manners and modes of the highbrow circle in which she finds herself provide a devastating - and very funny - social commentary as well as a moving story.

This bitingly funny, elegantly written comedy of manners is as absorbing and entertaining today as on the book's first publication in 1967.

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Weight: 235g
Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
Publication Date: 08 Feb 2018
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780349010021

About Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was born in Rugby Warwickshire. She studied Modern History at Somerville College Oxford and wrote her first novel Abbots Verney in 1906. She was introduced to the London literary scene by her childhood friend Rupert Brooke and her friends included Ivy Compton-Burnett Virginia Woolf E. M. Forster Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Bowen. Macaulay became celebrated writer who published over thirty works of fiction non-fiction and poetry in her lifetime including Crewe Train and The World My Wilderness. She won the James Tait Black Memorial prize for her final novel The Towers of Trebizond (1956) and was awarded the DBE in 1957.