pym barbara quartet in autumn
Pym Barbara Quartet in Autumn
With an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning. In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem - loneliness. Lovingly and with delightful humour, Barbara Pym conducts us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements, and - perhaps most keenly felt - their worries about having somehow missed out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them. Deliciously, blackly funny and full of obstinate optimism, Quartet in Autumn shows Barbara Pym's sensitive artistry at its most sparkling. Its world is both extraordinary and familiar, revealing the eccentricities of everyday life.
3021 Руб.
Pym Barbara A Few Green Leaves
Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognize as totally familiar. In A Few Green Leaves, her last novel, her heroine is Emma Howick, anthropologist. Through her eyes Barbara Pym examines in her own ironic and individual style the quiet revolution in English village life, combining the rural settings of her earliest novels with the themes and characters of her later works. The result is a compelling portrait of a town that seems to be forgotten by time, but which is unmistakably affected by it. Romance shares the pages with death in this engaging novel that is the culmination of Barbara Pym's acclaimed writing career.
2444 Руб.
Byrne Paula The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era’s own Jane Austen. But who was Barbara Pym and why was the life of this English writer – one of the greatest chroniclers of the human heart – so defined by rejection, both in her writing and in love? Pym lived through extraordinary times. She attended Oxford in the thirties when women were the minority. She spent time in Nazi Germany, falling for a man who was close to Hitler. She made a career on the Home Front as a single working girl in London’s bedsit land. Through all of this, she wrote. Diaries, notes, letters, stories and more than a dozen novels – which as Byrne shows more often than not reflected the themes of Pym’s own experience: worlds of spinster sisters and academics in unrequited love, of powerful intimacies that pulled together seemingly humble lives. Paula Byrne’s new biography is the first to make full use of Barbara Pym’s archive. Brimming with new extracts from Pym’s diaries, letters and novels, this book is a joyous introduction to a woman who was herself the very best of company. Byrne brings Barbara Pym back to centre stage as one of the great English novelists: a generous, shrewdly perceptive writer and a brave woman, who only in the last years of her life was suddenly, resoundingly recognised for her genius.
2218 Руб.
Pym Barbara Civil To Strangers
When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, Civil to Strangers, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a Voice', Pym's only written comment on her writing career. In Civil to Strangers, the lives of a young couple, Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon and her self-absorbed writer husband Adam, are thrown into upheaval when a mysterious Hungarian arrives in their village.
2210 Руб.
Pym Barbara An Academic Question
In a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers to read to a blind, esteemed anthropologist in a nursing home, Alan seizes the opportunity to steal his papers - research that could both advance his reputation while refuting the findings of a respected colleague. A delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym territory.
2210 Руб.
Audio CD Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906-1975) - Streichquartette Nr.1-15 (5 CD)
Треклист:Quartet No. 1 In C Major, Op. 49, Quartet No. 2 In A Major, Op. 68, Quartet No. 3 In F Major, Op. 73, Quartet No. 4 In D Major, Op. 83, Quartet No. 5 In B-flat Major, Op. 92, Quartet No. 6 In G Major, Op. 101, Quartet No. 7 In F-sharp Minor, Op. 108, Quartet No. 8 In C Minor, Op. 110, Quartet No. 9 In E-flat Major, Op. 117, Quartet No. 10 In A-flat Major, Op. 118, 4-1 Adagio (Elegy) For String Quartet, After Katerina's Aria From Scene 3 Of The Opera "Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk District," Op. 29 4:34, 4-2 Allegretto (Polka) For String Quartet, After The Polka From The Ballet "The Age Of Gold," Op. 22 2:47, Quartet No. 11 In F Minor, Op. 122, Quartet No. 12 In D-flat Major, Op. 133, Quartet No. 13 In B-flat Minor, Op. 138, Quartet No. 14 In F-sharp Major, Op. 142, Quartet No. 15 In E-flat Minor, Op. 144
6749 Руб.
Pym Barbara Excellent Women
Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the great moments of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sale, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. Her glamorous new neighbours, the Napiers, seem to be facing a marital crisis. One cannot take sides in these matters, though it is tricky, especially as Mildred has a soft spot for dashing young Rockingham Napier. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest and most touching.
2210 Руб.
Pym Barbara Excellent Women
Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the great moments of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sale, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. Her glamorous new neighbours, the Napiers, seem to be facing a marital crisis. One cannot take sides in these matters, though it is tricky, especially as Mildred has a soft spot for dashing young Rockingham Napier. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest and most touching.
3317 Руб.
Pym Barbara Crampton Hodnet
Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. However, Anthea's father, an Oxford don, is carrying on in the most unseemly fashion with a student - they have been spotted together at the British museum! But the only liaison Miss Doggett isn't aware of is taking place under her very own roof: the lodger has proposed to her paid companion Miss Morrow. She wouldn't approve of that at all.
1990 Руб.
Alban Berg Quartett: Mozart: String Quartets 14-23, String Quintets 3-4, etc. (7CD)
Alban Berg Quartett: Mozart: String Quartets 14-23, String Quintets 3-4, etc. (7CD). 7 CD. MOZART - , CHAMBER MUSIC - , CD 1 String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K 387 - , String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K 421 (417b) - , CD 2 String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major, K 458 'Hunt' - , String Quartet No. 16 in E-flat major, K 428 (421b) - , CD 3 String Quartet No. 18 in A major, K 464 - , String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K 465 'Dissonance' - , CD 4 String Quartet No. 20 in D major, K 499 'Hoffmeister' - , String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K 575 - , CD 5 String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat major, K 589 - , String Quartet No. 23 in F major, K 590 - , CD 6 String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K 515 - , String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K 516 - , CD 7 Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K 414 (arr. for piano & string quartet) - , Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K 493 - , - , Alban Berg Quartett - , Gunter Pichler, Gerhard Schulz violins - Thomas Kakuska viola - Valentin Erben cello - , - , Markus Wolf viola (CD6) - , Alfred Brendel piano (CD7) -
6300 Руб.
Pilgrim W. Ant-Man and the Wasp Prelude
Before Scott Lang and Hope Pym take flight in the upcoming Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp, see how the heroes teamed up for the fi rst time! Scott Lang has made some mistakes, but his skills as a thief make him indispensable when Hank Pym needs someone to operate the Ant-Man suit in a daring heist to prevent Darren Cross from using the Pym Particle technology for his own nefarious plans. The adventure doesn't get any bigger than this! . . . . . . . . . .
1771 Руб.
Pilgrim W. Ant-Man and the Wasp Prelude
Before Scott Lang and Hope Pym take flight in the upcoming Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp, see how the heroes teamed up for the fi rst time! Scott Lang has made some mistakes, but his skills as a thief make him indispensable when Hank Pym needs someone to operate the Ant-Man suit in a daring heist to prevent Darren Cross from using the Pym Particle technology for his own nefarious plans. The adventure doesn't get any bigger than this! . . . . . . . . . .
1771 Руб.
Pym Barbara Jane And Prudence
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reunion, neither of them is aware of it. They couldn't be more different: Jane is a rather incompetent vicar's wife, who always looks as if she is about to feed the chickens, while Prudence, a pristine hothouse flower, has the most unsuitable affairs. With the move to a rural parish, Jane is determined to find her friend the perfect man. She learns, though, that matchmaking has as many pitfalls as housewifery.
1849 Руб.
Pym Barbara Some Tame Gazelle
Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, likes nothing better than to make a fuss of new curates, secure in the knowledge that Count Ricardo Bianco will propose to her yet again this year. Belinda, meanwhile, has harboured sober feelings of devotion towards Archdeacon Hoccleve for thirty years. Then into their quiet, comfortable lives comes a famous librarian, Nathaniel Mold, and a bishop from Africa, Theodore Grote - who each takes to calling on the sisters for rather more unsettling reasons.
1849 Руб.
Pym Barbara Less Than Angels
Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks. Added to this love tangle are the activities of Deirdre's fellow students and their attempts to win the competition for a research grant. The course of true love or academia never did run smooth.
2058 Руб.
Amadeus Quartet. Johannes Brahms. Piano Quartet No.1 In G Minor, Op.25 4 Ballades, Op.10 (CD)
Сборник классической музыки.Список музыкальных треков:Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25 - 1. AllegroPiano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25 - 2. Intermezzo (Allegro ma non troppo)Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25 - 3. Andante con motoPiano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25 - 4. Rondo alla Zingarese4 Ballades, Op.10 - No.1 in D minor4 Ballades, Op.10 - No.2 in D4 Ballades, Op.10 - No.3 in B minor4 Ballades, Op.10 - No.4 in B.
1577 Руб.