Palladian
Author(s): Elizabeth Taylor; Neel Mukherjee (Introduction by)
An amusing, wry homage to Jane Eyre by one of the best novelists of the twentieth century.
When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set for the archetypal romance between young girl and austere widowed employer. Strange secrets abound in the ramshackle house. But conventions are subverted in this atmospheric novel: one of its worlds is suffused with classical scholarship and literary romance, but the other is chaotic, quarrelsome and even farcical. Cassandra is to discover that in real life, tragedy, comedy and acute embarrassment are never far apart.
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An amusing, wry homage to JANE EYRE by one of the best novelists of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) was born in Reading, Berkshire and spent much of her life in Penn, Buckinghamshire. She is one of the most acclaimed British novelists of the twentieth century.
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Virago Press
- : 03 August 2011
- : 196mm X 126mm X 14mm
- : 01 October 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Elizabeth Taylor; Neel Mukherjee (Introduction by)
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 208
