2012 May

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Elizabeth Taylor: Palladian (A Virago Modern Classic)

Buried In Print2023-10-12T15:31:16-04:00

If it had only been made into a film, I'm convinced that Elizabeth Taylor's Palladian would enjoy the same public flourishes of devotion that Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm can claim. Both novels are so bookishly satirical that we bookish folks have to squint to see the satire. But where

Elizabeth Taylor: Palladian (A Virago Modern Classic)Buried In Print2023-10-12T15:31:16-04:00

Olly Olly Oxen Free: Elizabeth Taylor May Read-a-long

Buried In Print2014-03-17T13:23:43-04:00

The Elizabeth Taylor Centenary has celebrated four novels this year, so far. May marks our reading of A Game of Hide and Seek. Who's in? Published in 1951 in England, Elizabeth Bowen's review of the novel reads like this: "Two masterpiece love stories in our language, Persuasion and Wuthering Heights,

Olly Olly Oxen Free: Elizabeth Taylor May Read-a-longBuried In Print2014-03-17T13:23:43-04:00

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