Margaret Drabble

A comienzos de los años sesenta, despues de un relajado año sabático en París al termino de sus estudios en Oxford, Sarah vuelve a casa de sus padres, en Warwickshire, para celebrar la boda de su hermana mayor Louise, con quien siempre ha tenido una gran rivalidad. Louise es guapa, elegante, socialmente admirada; Sarah, inteligente, ingeniosa y brillante, siempre ha pensado que estaba por debajo de ella. El matrimonio de Louise con un novelista de exito la lanza al gran mundo del glamour, las fiestas y los ecos de sociedad, mientras Sarah aun tiene que decidir que hacer con su vida, medio perdida en la inmensidad de Londres y a la sombra del exito de su hermana.

A comienzos de los años sesenta, después de un relajado año sabático en París al término de sus estudios en Oxford, Sarah vuelve a casa de sus padres, en Warwickshire, para celebrar la boda de su hermana mayor Louise, con quien siempre ha tenido una gran rivalidad. Louise es guapa, elegante, socialmente admirada; Sarah, inteligente, ingeniosa y brillante, siempre ha pensado que estaba por debajo de ella. El matrimonio de Louise con un novelista de exito la lanza al gran mundo del glamour, las fiestas y los ecos de sociedad, mientras Sarah aun tiene que decidir que hacer con su vida, medio perdida en la inmensidad de Londres y a la sombra del exito de su hermana. Una jaula en un jardin de verano (1963) fue la primera novela de Margaret Drabble y una de las primeras en tratar una historia practicamente eterna las rencillas y envidias entre hermanas desde una optica moderna y feminista, dentro de los parametros de lo que hoy llamariamos sororidad.

Anna is a child of special, unknowable qualities. She is a happy child, always willing to smile at the world around her. But she also presents profound challenges. For her mother Jess, still in her early twenties, living alone in North London and hoping to embark on an adventurous career, her arrival will prove life-transforming.

Edited by Margaret DrabbleAn institution since 1932, the newly revised fifth edition of the standard reference to English literature and its writers, origins, cultural context, criticism, and European influences features sixteen new articles on literary concepts and genres. UP.The first edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by Sir Paul Harvey, was published in 1932, and quickly established itself as as the standard source of reference for scholars, students, and general readers alike. In 1985, under the editorship of Margaret Drabble, the text was thoroughly and sensitively revised to bring it up to date without losing its essential character, or the lightness of touch that made it such a pleasure to dip into. The sixth edition, published in 2000, was extensively revised, expanded, and updated. Almost 600 new entries covered new writers, genres, and issues, and existing entries were reworked to incorporate the latest scholarship. The text was written by a team of more than 140 contributors under Margaret Drabble's editorial direction, including Brian Aldiss, Lisa Appignanesi, Jonathan Coe, Penelope Fitzgerald, Roy Porter, and Salman Rushdie. In addition to the extensive coverage of writers, works, literary theory, allusions, and characters, there are sixteen featured entries on key topics including black British literature, fantasy fiction, and modernism. The Companion remains an unrivalled work that places English literature in its widest context: no other book offers such extensive exploration of the classical roots of English literature, and the European and non-European works and writers that have influenced its development.

Humphrey and Ailsa met as children, by the grey Northern sea to which they are returning. Humphrey was already a serious child, drawn towards the underwater world of marine biology, but there were as yet few signs of Ailsa's dazzling transformation into a flamboyant feminist celebrity. The novel traces the evolution of their careers and their passionately entangled relationship, and brings them together again to see what they will make of their past, and in what spirit they will be able to face the future.

On dit que ce n'est pas la destination qui compte, mais le voyage... Ailsa est dans l'avion, Humphrey dans le train. Ils doivent se retrouver au bout du chemin, à Finsterness, le petit village au bord de la mer du Nord où ils se sont connus, enfants, dans l'immédiat après-guerre. Ils ne se sont pas revus depuis des décennies. La dernière fois que leurs routes se sont croisées, au début des années soixante, Ailsa, la féministe avide de publicité, la fantasque, l'outrancière, et Humphrey, le tranquille doctorant en biologie marine, se sont follement aimés... et déchirés. Une rupture qui a imprimé leurs vies futures. On dit qu'on n'oublie jamais son premier amour. Le hasard - si c'est bien lui - veut que les deux sexagénaires soient aujourd'hui invités par la même université pour se voir remettre un doctorat honoris causa. Alors qu'ils se rapprochent de ce Nord de légende où tout a commencé, les souvenirs et les interrogations affleurent. Qu'est-ce qui les attend, à la fin du voyage. Naviguant entre passé et présent, entre fantaisie et &émotion, la piquante Margaret Drabble matérialise le royaume de l'enfance, les sables mouvants de l'existence et la fuite du temps.

200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell, with her own complicated past, is the perfect envoy. Why does the Red Queen pick Babs to keep her story alive, and what else does she want from her? A terrific novel set in 18th century Korea and the present day, The Red Queen is a rich and atmospheric novel about love, and what it means to be remembered

Based on the vastly popular Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature edited by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer, this indispensable volume offers over five thousand alphabetically arranged entries on individual novels, plays, songs, poems, novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, historians, fictional characters, literary movements, legends, and much more. Like its parent volume, this abridgement features useful plot summaries, separate entries on important fictional characters, and countless biographical articles on authors and other influential figures in the world of letters, all presented with the same lightness of touch that has made the original work such a pleasure to read. Fully revised and updated with sixty new entries on contemporary writers including Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, W. Robertson Davies, P.D. James, Toni Morison, and Jeanette Winterson, this edition also includes new appendices listing the winners of the Nobel, Booker, and Pulitzer prizes. It covers topics once regarded as non-literary--detective stories, science fiction, children's stories, and comic strips among them--as well as important movements and critical theories, including the latest developments in Freudian and Marxist criticism. With generous coverage of literature from around the world, entries on literary movements, critics, and critical theories, updated information on modern authors and works, and several entirely new essays on a number of topics such as parody, anachronism, autobiography, heroic drama, and foreign influences on English literature, this is a book that readers will find indispensable. Praise for previouseditions: "Ought to stand up well into the next century."--The Chicago Sun-Times "A lively, informative volume."--Library Review "A book which one turns to with constant pleasure, and which achieves the seemingly impossible task of being both lively and judicious at once. It is a book with much style and little prejudice."--Times Literary Supplement "It is quite difficult to imagine, in this genre, a more useful publication."--Frank Kermode, The London Review of Books