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        Biography & True Stories
        May 2025

        Mrs Dalloway

        Biography of a novel

        by Mark Hussey

        A compelling biography of one of the most celebrated novels in the English language. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividness that has rarely been equalled. Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers new readers a lively introduction to this enduring classic, while providing Woolf lovers with a wealth of information about the novel's writing, publication and reception. It follows Woolf's process from the first stirrings in her diary through her struggles to create what was quickly recognised as a major advance in prose fiction. It then traces the novel's remarkable legacy to the present day. Woolf wrote in her diary that she wanted her novel 'to give life & death, sanity & insanity. to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense.' Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel reveals how she achieved this ambition, creating a book that will be read by generations to come.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2005

        Amy Tan

        by Bella Adams, John Thieme

        This is the most comprehensive study to date of Amy Tan's work. It offers close readings of her texts in the context of broader debates about the representation of identity, history and reality. In contrast with Tan's own American-born narrators, and mainstream critics, Bella Adams's study looks beyond the stereotypes which appear in Tan's books, and explores the ways in which Chinese immigrants and their American relatives struggle to understand each others 'best qualities' via the Chinese tradition of the 'talk story'. She emphasises Tan's American narrators' process of becoming Chinese and discovering 'real China', and the significance of the ironic staging of these moments. Students will find this study both accessible and probing, and scholars will welcome its contribution to our understanding of a significant figure in contemporary literature. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2003

        Further letters of Mrs Gaskell

        by John Chapple and Alan Shelston

        Contains number of previously unpublished letters which were not included in the hardback edition. Completes the project of publishing the correspondence of one of the greatest nineteeth-century novelists - J. A. V. Chapple edited not only the letters of Elizabeth Gaskell (1966), but also published Elizabeth Gaskell: The early years in 1997. The influence and appreciation of Mrs Gaskell is undergoing a renaissance, with the recent BBC adaptation of Wives and Daughters and the forthcoming North and South. The authors are two of the acknowledged world experts on Elizabeth Gaskell - both of whom have helped the BBC in compiling the 1999 Omnibus programme.. This collection illustrates once more the richness and diversity of her involvement in a remarkable range of social and literary activities, making her letters an important source for scholars of Victorian literature and culture 6. Includes correspondence. ;

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        May 2025

        Ein Sommer in Salerno

        Roman | Eine herzerwärmende, amüsante und ermutigende Geschichte über Neuanfänge

        by Serena Giuliano, Christiane Landgrebe

        Sechs Haushalte, eine Putzhilfe – bis ein Sommer alles verändert … Montag: der Witwer mit dem gebrochenen HerzenDienstag: die Älteste, sehr neugierigMittwoch: die HerrischenDonnerstag: die WahrsagerinFreitagmorgen: die wohlhabenden VerzweifeltenFreitagnachmittag: der Unsichtbare Zwischen all den Haushalten und ihren Teenager-Zwillingen hat Eléonore keine Zeit, das Dolce Vita in Salerno zu genießen. Auch Marco, von dem sie sich gerade getrennt hat, geht ihr nicht aus dem Kopf. Doch als Eléonore immer mehr in das Privatleben ihrer Kunden hineingezogen wird, gerät ihr routinierter Ablauf außer Kontrolle. Könnte das die langersehnte Chance für einen Neuanfang sein?

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        Children's & YA
        May 2016

        Bella Donner

        Wie alles begann & Der große Zauberwettbewerb

        by Symes, Ruth / Englisch Schindler, Nina; Illustriert von Harvey, Franziska

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        May 2007

        Bella Rosa

        Roman

        by Wild, Lea

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        August 2019

        Bella Stella

        Eine deutsch-italienische Familiensaga

        by Brigitte Pasini

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        January 1992

        Bella et expeditiones

        Die antike Terminologie der Kriege Roms

        by Rosenberger, Veit

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