by Barbara Pym · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586068816
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«Crampton Hodnet» is Barbara Pym's comic novel, published by Grafton in paperback (216 pages, in English).
Farce with two inappropriate romances. At Leamington Lodge, a young curate and Miss Morrow try to give an innocent explanation for an outing in the Oxford woods and invent a nonexistent vicar and village, Crampton Hodnet. Meanwhile, a susceptible professor and his student become embroiled in misunderstandings and situations she herself provokes.
Posthumous novel: Barbara Pym died in 1980 and the work was first published in 1985 (Macmillan); this Grafton edition is from 1986 and includes an introduction by Louis de Bernières.
Recommended for readers of classic British comedy, with romantic entanglements and irony.
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.
