Scenes of Childhood

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Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sylvia Townsend Warner ISBN: 9780571279036
Publisher: Faber & Faber Publication: May 19, 2011
Imprint: Faber & Faber Language: English
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN: 9780571279036
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication: May 19, 2011
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Language: English
In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders those reminiscences, thus forming a volume that reads as a joyous, wry and moving testament to the experience of being alive. The collection evokes a recognisably English world of nannies, butlers, pet podles, public schools, 'good works' and country churches, but the resonances of these stories are universal - funny and touching by turns.
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In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders those reminiscences, thus forming a volume that reads as a joyous, wry and moving testament to the experience of being alive. The collection evokes a recognisably English world of nannies, butlers, pet podles, public schools, 'good works' and country churches, but the resonances of these stories are universal - funny and touching by turns.

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