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Civil to strangers

When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel written in 1936, Civil to Strangers (originally called Adam and Sandra), three novellas and an autobiographical essay, Finding a Voice, Pym's only written comment on her writing career. Finding a Voice was a transcription of a radio programme Barbara Pym made for the BBC in 1978, part of a series by well-known writers speaking about how they found their own personal writing styles.

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  • "Civil to strangers. Français"
  • "Civil to strangers"@it
  • "Civil to strangers"

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  • "When Pym died in 1980, she left behind unpublished manuscripts in various stages of completion. This volume brings us the last complete novel, 'Civil to strangers', portions of three novellas, four short stories, and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a voice', Pym's only written comment on her writing career. In Civil to strangers the lives of a young couple, Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon and her self-absorbed writer husband, Adam, are thrown into unheaval when a mysterious Hungarian arrives in their village."
  • "De komst van een Hongaar in een klein Engels stadje in de jaren '30 brengt beroering in het huwelijk van een zelfgenoegzame schrijver en zijn volgzame vrouw."
  • "When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel written in 1936, Civil to Strangers (originally called Adam and Sandra), three novellas and an autobiographical essay, Finding a Voice, Pym's only written comment on her writing career. Finding a Voice was a transcription of a radio programme Barbara Pym made for the BBC in 1978, part of a series by well-known writers speaking about how they found their own personal writing styles."@en
  • "When Pym died in 1980, she left behind unpublished manuscripts in various stages of completion. This volume brings us the last complete novel, portions of three others, four short stories, and an autobiographical essay."
  • "When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, 'Civil To Strangers', three novellas and an autobiographical essay, Pym's only written commentary on her writing career."@en
  • "Huit nouvelles (1937-1979) précédées d'une causerie radiophonique qui en fournit le ton, celui d'une des grandes romancières anglaises de ce siècle. Singulière occasion de faire connaissance ..."

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Short stories"
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "General fiction"
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  • "Humourous fiction"
  • "Large type books"
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  • "Dans un salon d'Oxford : [nouvelles]"
  • "Adam et Cassandra"
  • "Civil to strangers"
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  • "Civil to strangers and other writings [sound recording]"@en
  • "Civil to strangers : and other writings"@en
  • "Civil to strangers and other writings"
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  • "Civil to strangers : and other writings"
  • "Tutte le virtù"
  • "Tutte le virtù"@it
  • "Beleefd jegens vreemden"
  • "Dans un salon d'Oxford"

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