A Charmed Circle

by Anna Kavan

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The story of a family marooned in a country house near an ugly, expanding manufacturing town of the 1920s, while yearning for life in the capital. Anna Kavan masterfully contrasts the English countryside with the brittle London life of the era.

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Original publication date
1929
First words
For fifty years the vicarage of Hannington stood uneventfully among its elm trees and flat fields.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It was too dark to see his expression.
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Lessing, Doris

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.912Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991901-1945
LCC
PR6009 .D63 .C48Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1900-1960
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English
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Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
7
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