Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances

Author: Rose Macaulay

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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Daisy and Daphne, half-sisters, are staying with a family of English 'intelligentsia' on holiday in the Mediterranean. Daisy - shy, insecure and working-class - conceals her 'shameful' work as an author of 'women's fiction' and a journalist with a popular newspaper. Daphne - attractive, confident and sophisticated - is approved of by all, and she and Raymond, the elder son, fall in love (as does Daisy with him). Back in London, the sisters resume normal life, Daisy visiting her 'common' but loving family and Daphne seeing Raymond, who proposes marriage, and is accepted - on condition the engagement is kept secret, to Raymond's consternation. As tension mounts, the author reveals that Daphne and Daisy are actually different facets of one person, and that Raymond, in accepting the sophisticated Daphne, will have to accept Daisy's lesser qualities as well. Daisy/Daphne feels she cannot afford to divulge her origins or let him and his cultured family meet her brash, 'common' mother, and agonises over this. But her determined mother decides to see her daughter's betrothed for herself, and the truth is out. Raymond rather likes mother, but his beloved's prevarications and duplicity have somewhat cooled his passion; will the engagement triumph, or, if not, who will end it?


The Towers of Trebizond

The Towers of Trebizond

Author: Rose Macaulay

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781590170588

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Serio-comic novel about English eccentrics who travel in Turkey.


Told by an Idiot

Told by an Idiot

Author: Rose Macaulay

Publisher:

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 352

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The intellectual and moral history of a clergyman's family.


Dangerous Ages

Dangerous Ages

Author: Rose Macaulay

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2016-06-09

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1473362016

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This vintage book contains Dame Rose Macaulay's 1921 novel, "Dangerous Ages". A young writer with a sizeable family returns to college as a way to spend her free time, but finds that she is perhaps not as sharp as she once was. Sick of her chaotic family, she decides to settle down, but realises that her boyfriend was no longer wiling to wait and has fallen for someone else... and her own niece, no less. Struggling with all the commitments that come with a large family, she endeavours to put her life back together again. Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958) was an English writer. She is most famous for the award-winning novel "The Towers of Trebizond" (1956). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.


The Lee Shore

The Lee Shore

Author: Rose Macaulay

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Lee Shore" by Rose Macaulay. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.


Orphan Island

Orphan Island

Author: Rose Macaulay

Publisher:

Published: 1925

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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"In 1855 a philanthropic young person, Miss Charlotte Smith, was escorting forty orphans to San Francisco when the ship was wrecked, and the survivors-Miss Smith, the orphans, a doctor, and some others, landed on a desert island. Those sailors who had escaped deserted them the next day in the boats. There they remained unvisited for some seventy years, with little to disturb the monotony beyond the adventures of the Doctor, who was secured in turn by Miss Smith and a shark. All this is contained in chapter one. The second chapter opens in 1922 at Cambridge, where lived the descendants of one of the sailors who deserted-a professor and his three children. A document and chart coming into the professor's hands, left by his dead grandfather, telling the story of the marooning of Miss Smith and the orphans, the professor and his family voyage out to the island and find there a thriving community, and Orphan Island is chiefly concerned with the community and the relations of it to the professor and his family."--Amazon.


Potterism: A Tragi-Farcical Tract

Potterism: A Tragi-Farcical Tract

Author: Rose Macaulay

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016241977

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They Went to Portugal Too

They Went to Portugal Too

Author: Rose Macaulay

Publisher: Carcanet Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 392

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Papers from original manuscript for 'They Went to Portugal', omitted when the projected two volume work was published as one volume in 1946, at a time of severe post-war paper rationing, here printed for the first time. Introduction by Susan Lowndes. Edited by L. C. Taylor. Carcanet in association with The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.