A charmed circle

Anna Kavan

earliest edition we have, 1994 Peter Owen, 1994 paperback 317 pages

Anna Kavan is now regarded as one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. An early novel, A Charmed Circle foreshadows her later development. It is the story of a family marooned in a country house near an ugly, expanding manufacturing town of the 1920's. The atmosphere of the house is heavy with repression, hostility and revolt, and is darkened by the sinister influence of the father, whose warped na...

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A charmed circle hardcover · 2000 · Peter Owen · 320 pages · 9780720609288
A charmed circle paperback · 1994 · Peter Owen · 317 pages · 9780720609417

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