by Barbara Pym · Virago Press Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844085811
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«Less Than Angels» is the classic novel by Barbara Pym, published by Virago Press Ltd in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Follows the romantic and working lives of a group of young anthropologists. Catherine Oliphant, a writer, lives with Tom Mallow; when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, she takes an interest in the reclusive Alaric Lydgate. The students compete for a research grant, in an ironic portrait of relationships and academia.
Part of the Virago Modern Classics collection (number 313) and includes an introduction by Salley Vickers.
Recommended for readers of classic British fiction and stories with a university setting.
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.
