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Enter Sir Robert

Angela Thirkell

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English
Open Road Media
23 April 2025
The missing lord of the manor looms large in this quirky novel by an author who offers ""a fresh, original, witty interpretation of England's social history"" (The New York Times).

Lady Graham is anticipating the long-awaited appearance of Sir Robert, finally retiring from his glorious military career and globetrotting adventures a decade after the end of World War II. In the meantime, life at Holdings goes on and Lady Graham's youngest, eighteen-year-old Edith, has her pick of suitors. It is unclear, however, if she will make up her mind about them any time soon-and if she will exit Holdings before her father enters...

""Where Trollope would have been content to arouse a chuckle, [Thirkell] is constantly provoking us to hilarious laughter.... To read her is to get the feeling of knowing Barsetshire folk as well as if one had been born and bred in the county."" -Kirkus Reviews
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Imprint:   Open Road Media
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 133mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   299g
ISBN:   9781504092821
ISBN 10:   1504092821
Series:   The Barsetshire Novels
Pages:   300
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Angela Thirkell (18901961) was a British author whose ability to produce one book a year, every year, and set in that year blurred the lines between novelist and social historian. Like so many of the writers that she admired-Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Eliot-Thirkell shared their X-ray vision: an unmatched ability to assess the hypocrisies, desires, and prejudices of her characters and, better still, play them for laughs. Her biggest literary project, the Barsetshire Chronicles, consists of twenty-nine novels, each acting as another slice of English country life; a utopian vision of bucolic countryside, grand manors, and village fetes.

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