by Barbara Pym · Macmillan London Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844087211
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«Crampton Hodnet» is Barbara Pym's comic novel, published in paperback (271 pages, in English).
Two ill-advised romances cross paths in academic Oxford: a young curate and Miss Morrow invent a nonexistent vicar and village to justify a walk, while a dreamy professor and a student fall into their own traps. It is a farce with characters typical of Barbara Pym, such as clergymen and excellent women.
Work originally published in Britain in 1985; this edition appeared in 2012 and includes an introduction by Louis de Bernières.
For readers of classic English comedy and novels set in a university academic environment.
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.
