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Product Description: 1940s. War alters lives, and for three women from different walks of life, the choices they make will change everything forever... Jenny Proctor is a well-to-do housewife with a demanding husband. She devotes her life to serving him - but when he enlists, she finds her voice...read more
Hardcover:
9780750536769 | Large print edition (Magna Large Print Books, February 1, 2013), cover price $35.50 | About this edition: 1940s.
9780727880772 | Severn House Pub Ltd, November 1, 2011, cover price $27.95
Paperback:
9781847513755 | Reprint edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, June 1, 2012), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: If you follow your heart, there is always a price to pay .
An international bestseller with over one million readers.With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tightening vice of rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and die. And five women forge an unlikely bond of friendship that will change their lives forever.Alice Osbourne, the stolid daughter of the late vicar, is reeling from the news that Richard Fairfax broke their engagement to marry Evangeline Fontaine, an American girl from the Deep South. Evangelineâs arrival causes a stir in the villageâbut not the chaos that would ensue if they knew her motives for being there. Scrappy Elsie Pigeon is among the poor of London who see the evacuations as a chance to escape a life of destitution. Another new arrival is Tanni Zayman, a young Jewish girl who fled the horrors of Europe and now waits with her newborn son, certain that the rest of her family is safe and bound to show up any day. And then thereâs Frances Falconleigh, a madcap, fearless debutante whose father is determined to keep her in the countryside and out of the papers.As the war and its relentless hardships intensify around them, the same struggles that threaten to rip apart their lives also bring the five closer together. They draw strength from one another to defeat formidable enemiesâhunger, falling bombs, the looming threat of a Nazi invasion, and a traitor in their midstâand find remarkable strength within themselves to help their friends. Theirs is a war-forged loyalty that will outlast the fiercest battle and endure years and distance.When four of the women return to Crowmarsh Priors for a VE Day celebration fifty years later, television cameras focus on the heartwarming story of these old women as war brides of a bygone age, but miss the more newsworthy angle. The womenâs mission is not to commemorate or rememberâtheyâve returned to settle a score and avenge one of their own.Revised edition: This edition of War Brides includes editorial revisions.
Paperback:
9781612183329 | Amazon Pub, June 5, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An international bestseller with over one million readers.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781469241944 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, June 5, 2012), cover price $14.99
9781469241708 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, June 5, 2012), cover price $19.99
Paperback:
9780199536740 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2008), cover price $12.95
Product Description: Lillian's life spans the 20th century, born in Suffolk in 1900, in service at the age of 12, her life is greatly changed by WW1 and even more by WW2. These experiences colour the rest of her long life. The Great Depression, the post-war austerity years, the assassination of JFK, Neil Armstrong's moon walk, the miners' strike and the death of Princess Diana are amongst the cultural and political events of this turbulent century...read more
Hardcover:
9780750527972 | Large print edition (Magna Large Print Books, January 30, 2008), cover price $35.50 | About this edition: Lillian's life spans the 20th century, born in Suffolk in 1900, in service at the age of 12, her life is greatly changed by WW1 and even more by WW2.
This anthology brings together twenty-eight lively and readable short stories by nineteenth-century women writers, including gothic tales to romances, detective fiction and ghost stories. Containing short fiction by well-known authors such as: * Maria Edgeworth * Mary Shelley * Elizabeth Gaskell * Margaret Oliphant Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women also includes: * a scholarly introduction * biographies for each of the authors * full explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading * a critical commentary, publication details and historical context * a full and wide-ranging bibliography The bibliography of resources and further reading will enable those interested in pursuing research on any author or topic to do so with ease, and a thematic index will enable teachers to select material best suited to their courses.
Hardcover:
9780415167819 | Routledge, July 1, 1998, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: This anthology brings together twenty-eight lively and readable short stories by nineteenth-century women writers, including gothic tales to romances, detective fiction and ghost stories.
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9780415167826 | Routledge, February 1, 1998, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: This anthology brings together twenty-eight lively and readable short stories by nineteenth-century women writers, including gothic tales to romances, detective fiction and ghost stories.
Miscellaneous:
9780203004982 | Routledge, January 4, 2002, cover price $39.95
Hardcover:
9780783891484 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, September 1, 2000), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Roxana chooses the exciting life of the courtesan over the more respectable life of a married woman.
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9780881848533 | Carroll & Graf Pub, May 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Twenty-six stories from a group of women at the forefront of modernism--Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, May Sinclair, and others--express the writers' excitement and frustration as they redefined the world for women with their courageous ideas
Paperback:
9780881849639 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, April 1, 1993), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Twenty-six stories from a group of women at the forefront of modernism--Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, May Sinclair, and others--express the writers' excitement and frustration as they redefined the world for women with their courageous ideas
Hardcover:
9780684186610 | Scribner, April 1, 1986, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Recounts the lives of Harry Penrose, a British ambassador, his first and second wives, and his daughter-in-law, a best-selling writer, as they face the hardships and challenges of the war years
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9780380701742 | Reissue edition (Avon Books, April 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: In the fall of 1930, two young mothers-to-be meet by chance on a London bridge, and for both--the one a wealthy American, the other a titled Englishwoman--it is the beginning of a lifelong friendship
Tells the story of England from a woman's point of view, as seen through the mind of a modern midwife
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9780394555409 | Pantheon Books, December 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of England from a woman's point of view, as seen through the mind of a modern midwife
Paperback:
9780345351999 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1988), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of England from a woman's point of view, as seen through the mind of a modern midwife
Hardcover:
9780404079222 | Ams Pr Inc, April 1, 1985, cover price $65.00
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9780863580413 | Reprint edition (Pandora Pr, November 1, 1984), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Sally, Edith, and Geraldine, three New Englanders from completely different backgrounds, find a common cause in the Womens Suffrage Movement
Hardcover:
9780575004771 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, December 31, 1954), cover price $30.45 | also contains Mary Anne | About this edition: A memorable novel rich in character and imagination.
Paperback:
9781402217111 | Sourcebooks Landmark, October 1, 2009, cover price $19.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9781491582695 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, November 25, 2014), cover price $14.99
Hardcover:
9780837604114 | Bentley Pub, June 1, 1954, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Fictionalized biography of the author's great-great grandmother, an eighteenth-century courtesan who ruthlessly manipulated the powerful men who sought her favors
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