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Dangerous Calm: Selected Stories (Virago Modern Classics)

Dangerous Calm: Selected Stories (Virago Modern Classics)

by Lynn Knight (Introduction), Lynn Knight (Introduction), Elizabeth Taylor (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

    $9.28

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    Hardcover 1995

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Synopsis

In 1945 the publication of AT MRS LIPPINCOTE'S launched Elizabeth Taylor's career. The author of twelve novels and four collections of short stories, she excelled at unravelling the comedy of ordinary life. DANGEROUS CALM draws on her volumes of short stories to produce a fine selection of her work. Stories such as 'Summer Schools', 'Flesh' and 'The Devastating Boys' confirm her status as one of the finest short story writers. This selection also features two previously unpublished stories and three uncollected ones, including the late, poignant tale, 'The Wrong Order'. Together they celebrate a formidable stylist whose work has delighted readers and critics for fifty years.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 02 Oct 1997
ISBN 10: 186049353X
ISBN 13: 9781860493539
Book Overview: A collection of short stories, two previously unpublished, by Elizabeth Taylor: 'a joy to read... Taylor excels in conveying the tragicomic pognancy of the everyday' (Daily Telegraph)

Media Reviews
When you read her work there's always an element of self-congratulation. Oh, what you've caught * ANNE TYLER *
Not a tale here fails to expand in the imagination of the reader * ELIZABETH BOWEN *
Author Bio
Elizabeth Taylor was born in Reading, Berks in 1912 and educated at the Abbey School. She worked as a governess in a library and at the age of 24 married a businessman with whom she had a son and daughter. Much of her married life was spent in the village of Penn, Bucks. She published twelve novels and four volumes of short stories. She died in 1975.