Invitation To A Waltz

Author : Rosamond Lehmann
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1405521171
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invitation To The Waltz written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her seventeenth birthday, Olivia Curtis receives: a diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first ball dress. She anticipates the dance, the greatest and most terrifying event of her life so far, with uncertainty and excitement. For her pretty sister Kate, it is sure to be a triumph, but what will it be for shy, awkward Olivia? Rosamond Lehmann, one of the best-loved writers of the twentieth century, perfectly captures the emotions of a girl poised on the threshold of womanhood.

Author : Rosamond Lehmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780002214292
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invitation to the Waltz written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En poetisk skildring af en engelsk overklassepiges følelser umiddelbart før hun skal til sit første bal

Author : Beverly C. Warren
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ISBN 13 : 9780709013624
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invitation to a Waltz written by Beverly C. Warren and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invitation waltz written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosamond Lehmann
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 9781844083053
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invitation to the Waltz written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Virago. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress: these are the gifts Olivia Curtis receives for her seventeenth birthday. She anticipates her first dance, the greatest yet most terrifying event of her restricted social life, with tremulous uncertainty and excitement. For her pretty, charming elder sister Kate, the dance is certain to be a triumph, but what will it be for shy, awkward Olivia? Exploring the daydreams and miseries attendant upon even the most innocent of social events, Rosamond Lehmann perfectly captures the emotions of a girl standing poised on the threshold of womanhood.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invitation to Waltz written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosamond Lehmann
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 1405526858
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weather In The Streets written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Virago. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, The Weather in the Streets takes you on the rollercoaster of their relationship' ESTHER FREUD, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN 'The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings & perceptions' ANITA BROOKNER Taking up where Invitation to the Waltz left off, The Weather in the Streets shows us Olivia Curtis ten years older, a failed marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, and apparently not much wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a new world of secret meetings, brief phone calls and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms. Years ahead of its time when first published, this subtle and powerful novel shocked even the most stalwart Lehmann fans with its searing honesty and passionate portrayal of clandestine love. Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame.

Author : Lehmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781860496172
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Invitation to the Waltz B Special written by Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosamond Lehmann
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504054539
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olivia Curtis Novels written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years separate these two poignant novels featuring the same young woman, by the New York Times–bestselling “novelist in the grand tradition” (Anita Brookner). British novelist Rosamond Lehmann “has always written brilliantly of women in love” (Margaret Drabble). In her pair of novels featuring Olivia Curtis—a shy, romantic, and hopeful seventeen-year-old looking forward to her first dance, and later, a sadder young woman in her twenties who still longs to capture lost passion—Lehmann creates “a completely compelling intimacy” that lingers long after the stories are over (Hermione Lee, The Guardian). Invitation to the Waltz: Seventeen-year-old Olivia Curtis has been invited to her first dance. She is thrilled and terrified. In her diary, she confides her hopes, doubts, and fears—about her pretty, confident older sister, Kate; her precocious baby brother, James; her eccentric country neighbors; and of course, the upcoming party, which she is sure will be the crowning event of her life. Divided into three parts—Olivia’s birthday, the day leading up to the dance, and the event itself—Invitation to the Waltz beautifully captures the conflicting emotions of a teenager on the threshold of womanhood. “Utterly charming and so desperately true that it almost hurts.” —The New York Times The Weather in the Streets: Ten years older with a failed marriage behind her, Olivia runs into Rollo Spencer, her girlhood crush from the ball, on a train, and is swept up in a heated but clandestine affair, since Rollo is married. Lehmann’s “honest” and “powerful” novel charts the tempestuous course of Olivia and Rollo’s forbidden relationship, from the first throes of passion through the toll of their deception on Olivia as she confronts the harsh reality of being the other woman (Kirkus Reviews). “A vividly realized, painfully convincing story of a love affair, written in Lehmann’s characteristic spare, poetic prose.” —Joyce Carol Oates

Author : Rosamond Lehmann
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504003055
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Note in Music written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seductive new stranger becomes the symbol of everything two married women secretly long for in this richly imagined novel by one of the most distinguished writers of the twentieth century Thirty-four-year-old Grace Fairfax lives a dull, conventional existence with her dull, conventional husband, Tom, in a dreary manufacturing town in the North of England. A year ago, when a fortune-teller told her that her life lacked will and purpose, she wasn’t surprised. Every day the same predictable routine—it’s a wonder she doesn’t go mad. Then Hugh Miller and his sister, Clare, descend on the town. Clare is young and beautiful. Hugh seems to possess everything lacking in Grace’s life: passion, vitality, and most important, the freedom to do as he pleases. Grace’s best friend, Norah MacKay, isn’t immune to the handsome stranger’s charms, either. Married to Gerald, a curmudgeonly university professor, the mother of two has her own fantasies of desire and liberation. But Hugh isn’t the man Grace and Norah imagine him to be. In this story of two strangers who cast an otherworldly enchantment on an entire town and its inhabitants, A Note in Music presents an intensely moving portrait of marriage—its disappointments, joys, jealousies, fears, and loneliness, and the truths that remain unspoken.