Category: 1950’s Fiction

• Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan

  Translated by Irene Ash Our last day in Paris and I spent it reading Bonjour Tristesse –  a very stylish little novella that was published when Francoise Sagan was just 18 years old. The main character, Cecile, is about the same age as the author and this story chronicles the dramatic summer she spends in the South…

  Anbolyn

  July 31, 2012

  1950’s Fiction, Classic Novels, Events, Uncategorized

  Francoise Sagan, Paris in July

• Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym

  The third Barbara Pym I chose to read this year is Some Tame Gazelle. I’ve seen a few bloggers claim this as their second favorite Pym, after Excellent Women of course, but I liked Jane and Prudence better. However, this novel does have its strong points and is another quietly charming and droll little Pym…

  Anbolyn

  June 28, 2012

  1950’s Fiction, Classic Novels, Uncategorized

  Barbara Pym

• Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym

      After reading Excellent Women I knew, just knew, that I had to read more of Pym’s novels. Jane and Prudence was the second one I read and I did love it, not as much as Excellent Women, but love it I did. The two women of the title are old friends from Oxford. Jane is older and…

  Anbolyn

  May 30, 2012

  1950’s Fiction, Classic Novels, Uncategorized

  Barbara Pym

• Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

    Excellent Women is Barbara Pym’s subtly witty and charming domestic novel centered around the wonderful and wise Mildred Lathbury. Mildred is an unmarried, thirty-something woman who leads a fairly predictable life in 1950’s London. She works part-time for an impoverished gentlewomen’s organization and spends the rest of her time serving at church and associating…

  Anbolyn

  May 4, 2012

  1950’s Fiction, Classic Novels, Uncategorized

  Barbara Pym

• Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

      I’ll always be grateful to Simon and Harriet for proposing and promoting Muriel Spark Reading Week. Because of the event I got the chance to read a fantastic, funny and invigorating novel. So, thanks, guys! Memento Mori is set in London in the ’50’s and the plot centers around a group of elderly…

  Anbolyn

  April 25, 2012

  1950’s Fiction, Classic Novels, Events, Uncategorized

  Muriel Spark

• Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart

  Last month, I went on a little spending spree and bought five of the new vintage-looking Mary Stewart editions published by Hodder & Stoughton last year. I just love the way these colorful covers look. They do Mary Stewart proud and make her novels a tad more enticing to today’s readers (I hope). Thunder On…

  Anbolyn

  March 27, 2012

  1950’s Fiction, Classic Novels, Suspense Fiction, Uncategorized

  Mary Stewart