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The Ballad and the Source de Rosamond Lehmann

The Ballad and the Source: 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

'I cannot doubt that this is Miss Lehmann's best and most permanent book' RAYMOND MORTIMER

'Unconventional in structure, in characterisation and development of story . . . Unforgettable' NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE

The tale of the unlikely friendship between and an old woman and a young girl. This is one of Rosamond Lehmann's finest novels.

Ten year old Rebecca is living in the country with her family when Sibyl Jardine, an enigmatic and powerful old woman, returns to her property in the neighbourhood. The two families, once linked in the past, meet again, with the result that Rebecca becomes drawn into the strange complications of the old lady's life - with her husband, her errant daughter and her grandchildren. Through the spellbound eyes of the young Rebecca we enter into an intricate and scandalous family history and slowly the story of the passionate, stormy life of Mrs. Jardine unfolds.
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ISBN-13: 9780349017976
ISBN-10: 0349017972
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 22 mm
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Seria Virago Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes
I cannot doubt that this is Miss Lehmann's best and most permanent book
An exciting adventure in fiction. Unconventional in structure, in characterisation and development of story . . . Unforgettable
A psychological novel -- keyed to the market of such books as Strange Woman and Leave Her To Heaven but immeasurably beyond them in subtlety and craftsmanship, in nuance and implication . . . An oddly haunting book, expertly handled
Experience had signed her face with a secret, a promise whose meaning people would still watch, still desire to explore and to possess.

When Sibyl Jardine moves into The Priory, the beautiful house on a primrose-covered hill, ten-year-old Rebecca is spellbound by the glamorous and enigmatic old woman. Drawn into the intricate web of Mrs Jardine's life - her second husband, her errant daughter, her estranged grandchildren - Rebecca discovers that the complex and scandalous history of the Jardine family is linked to her own.

The tale of the unlikely friendship between an old woman and a young girl, and of a turbulent life seen through the eyes of innocence, this is one of Rosamond Lehmann's finest novels.

'Probably my favourite of her novels. She has every quality that a great writer should possess . . . above all, an astonishing, unembarrassed emotionality' JOANTHAN COE

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

'She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original' Elizabeth Jane Howard

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.