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Invitation to the Waltz de Rosamond Lehmann

Invitation to the Waltz: Virago Modern Classics

Autor Rosamond Lehmann
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 noi 2026
ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

'The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions' ANITA BROOKNER

'Every emotional ripple is beautifully observed: the hideous anticipation' GUARDIAN

'Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love, of mothers, of daughters' MARGARET DRABBLE

A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress: these are the gifts Olivia Curtis receives for her seventeenth birthday. She anticipates her first dance, the greatest yet most terrifying event of her restricted social life with tremulous uncertainty and excitement. For her pretty, charming elder sister Kate, the dance is certain to be a triumph, but what will it be for shy, awkward Olivia?

Exploring the daydreams and miseries attendant upon even the most innocent of social events, Rosamond Lehmann perfectly captures the emotions of a girl standing poised on the threshold of womanhood.
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ISBN-13: 9780349018041
ISBN-10: 0349018049
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 22 mm
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Seriile Virago Modern Classics, VMC

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Every emotional ripple is beautifully observed: the hideous anticipation, the agony of the empty dance card, the brief flutters of hope as various men take her for a turn around the dance floor, the many small disappointments that follow and the sudden vivid need to escape from the crowd, to flee, to breathe
Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes
A novelist in the grand tradition, and, more than this, an innovator, the first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions
Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love, of mothers, of daughters, of suffering
No English writer has told of the pains of women in love more truly or more movingly than Rosamond Lehmann
The dancing, the people beyond were nothing, a froth on the surface, soon to be blown away . . .


Waking on her seventeenth birthday, Olivia Curtis senses that life is about to begin. Among her gifts are a diary for her innermost thoughts, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress - the dress that she will wear in a week's time at the most important, and most terrifying, event of her life so far. Her first dance... Delicately observed but suffused with emotional intensity, Invitation to the Waltz is a timeless portrait of the uncertainties and ecstasies of a young woman poised on the threshold of adulthood.


'No English writer has told of the pains of women in love more truly or more movingly than Rosamond Lehmann' MARGHANITA LASKI

'So many of Olivia's worries will be acutely, painfully familiar to anyone who has ever been young . . . every emotional ripple is beautifully observed' GUARDIAN


'A novelist in the grand tradition, and, more than this, an innovator, the first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions' ANITA BROOKNER

Notă biografică

Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born on the day of Queen Victoria's funeral, in Buckinghamshire, England, the second of four children. In 1927, a few years after graduating from the University of Cambridge, she published her first novel, Dusty Answer, to critical acclaim and instantaneous celebrity. Lehmann continued to write and publish between 1930 and 1976, penning works including The Weather in the Streets, The Ballad and the Source, and the short memoir The Swan in the Evening. Lehmann was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and remains one of the most distinguished novelists of the twentieth century.