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Good Evening, Mrs Craven - The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Donnes (Paperback, Revised edition) Loot Price: R488
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Good Evening, Mrs Craven - The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Donnes (Paperback, Revised edition)

Mollie Panter-Downes

Series: Persephone Classics

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For fifty years Mollie Panter-Downes' name was associated with "The New Yorker", for which she wrote a regular "Letter from London", book reviews and over thirty short stories; of the twenty one in "Good Evening, Mrs Craven", written between 1939 and 1944, only two had ever been reprinted - these very English stories have, until now, been unavailable to English readers. Exploring most aspects of English domestic life during the war, they are about separation, sewing parties, fear, evacuees sent to the country, obsession with food, the social revolutions of wartime. In the "Daily Mail" Angela Huth called "Good Evening, Mrs Craven" 'my especial find' and Ruth Gorb in the "Ham & High" contrasted the humor of some of the stories with the desolation of others: 'The mistress, unlike the wife, has to worry and mourn in secret for her man; a middle-aged spinster finds herself alone again when the camaraderie of the air-raids is over...'

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Imprint: Persephone Books Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Persephone Classics
Release date: May 2008
First published: December 2009
Authors: Mollie Panter-Downes
Dimensions: 192 x 138 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 203
Edition: Revised edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-906462-01-7
Categories: Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > Second World War fiction
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LSN: 1-906462-01-1
Barcode: 9781906462017

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