Excellent Women

Barbara Pym

earliest edition we have, 1976 Perennial Library, 1987 256 pages

Serie Piper -- 1288

The lightly satiric focus is on loneliness bravely borne, the bearing-up being done by that excellent woman Mildred Lathbury, a 30-something spinster in the lingering post-WWII rationing of the early 1950s. Living in suburban London and on the fringes of academia, she becomes embroiled with the vicar, the neighbors, the neighbors' lodgers, and a few hopeless (and one rather intriguing) gentleman friends. Dryly, wryly...

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Editions we hold

Excellent women edition · 2007 · Penguin Books · 231 pages · 9780143104872
Excellent Women paperback · 2000 · Vintage · 256 pages · 9780099767015
Excellent Women audiobook · 1996 · Chivers Audio Books · 9780745127675
Excellent Women paperback · 1995 · Pan Books · 240 pages · 9780330335041
Vortreffliche Frauen edition · 1990 · Piper · 284 pages
Excellent women. edition · 1989 · Pan · 237 pages
Excellent women edition · 1987 · Perennial Library · 256 pages
Excellent women edition · 1985 · G.K. Hall · 333 pages
Excellent women edition · 1980 · Plume · 256 pages
Excellent women edition · 1980 · Harper & Row · 256 pages
Excellent women edition · 1978 · Dutton · 256 pages
Excellent women edition · 1978 · Cape · 256 pages

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