by Barbara Pym · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586206898
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«Civil to Strangers» is the posthumous volume of stories and writings by Barbara Pym published by HarperCollins in paperback (416 pages, in English).
It brings together the novel that gives the volume its title, a comedy of manners in a Shropshire village, with sections of three unpublished novels, stories and an autobiographical essay. In the main piece, a mysterious Hungarian disrupts the life of Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon, one of Pym's «excellent women», and of her egocentric writer husband.
The full title of this collection is Civil to Strangers and Other Writings; the main novel was written in 1936 and the collection was originally published in 1988.
For readers of Barbara Pym and of English fiction with subtle humour and social observation.
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In the 1950s, she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). After a period of rejection by publishers, her career was revived in 1977 when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin nominated her as the most underrated writer of the previous 75 years. Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
