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The Gipsy's Baby (Hesperus Modern Voices)

1 review
Rosamond Lehmann

Hesperus Press, 2007

Great Collection
This is a really wonderfull collection of stories covering Britain durring the world wars. The stories are about women and their weight in the world but this isn't heavy reading and learning lessons. The language is beautiful, mostly about bittersweet times and how we get through. There are five stories. The first,the title story is about a poor family who losses it's lynchpin told through the ...

Dusty Answer

2 reviews
Rosamond Lehmann

Collins, 1978

Very well written
This is the kind of book that you can re-read. (I have several times.) It's really very sad that it and so many of Rosamond Lehmann's other books are out of print. The plot is about a young English girl who falls in love with the family next door...over several years, as she grows up, goes to Cambridge, goes out into the world she keeps meeting various members and has relationships with ...

Invitation to the Waltz

1 review
Rosamond Lehmann

Henry Holt and Company, 1932

Invitation to Read more Lehmann
This book is elegantly written. Olivia has just celebrated her 17th birthday and is invited to Marigold's coming out party. Set in the 1920s. Ms. Lehman has a very beautiful way to describe people and emotions. You aren't beaten over the head with lenghty descriptions she just speaks beautifully. Invitation to the Waltz was meant as the prequel to Weather in the Streets. It certainly ...

Les Enfants Terribles

12 reviews
Jean Cocteau

Elysium Press, 1992

at last!
This restoration is awesome. As for the eternal, unresolved debate over whether this is "a Cocteau Film" or "a Melville Film"--I consider it to be Cocteau's masterpiece. That's not easy to say when you consider ORPHEUS and LA BELLE ET LA BETE, is it? Look what we're getting in pristine condition: Cocteau, Stephane, Dermithe AND Bach/Vivaldi...wow

The Awakening Letters

1 review
Cynthia Sandys, Rosamond Lehmann

Jersey: Neville Spearman, 1978

The Awakening Letters
This is the most interesting book i have ever read on life after death and if you can set aside disbelief (as this book is channeled) you will find it most interesting and like i did find it seems to make alot of sense despite the fact that i've never read anything like it so far.This book talks about the various experiences poeple have apon entering life after bodily death.Channeled through a ...

The weather in the streets

2 reviews
Rosamond Lehmann

powerful and complex story of a love affair
Rosamond Lehmann's _The Weather in the Streets_ is a sequel to her earlier book, _Invitation to the Waltz_. Here, Olivia, who in _Invitation to the Waltz_ was a nervous debutante, is now older, though perhaps not much wiser; separated from her husband, she falls in love with the married brother of an old friend and embarks upon a tempestuous affair. Compared to its predecessor, _The Weather in ...

A Note In Music

1 review
Rosamond Lehmann

Kessinger Publishing, 2004

Brilliant, best book I've read all year
I am currently discovering a group of female British novelists whose works have been incredibly underrated - namely, Elizabeth Taylor and Rosamond Lehmann. Had Lehmann been a man, no doubt she would have been hailed as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century; she is every bit as good as E.M. Forrster, D.H. Lawrence, or Somerset Maugham - all of whom I consider among my favourite authors. ...

Invitation to the Waltz

2 reviews
Rosamond Lehmann

Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C, 1996

Sometimes Good Is Good Enough
As other reviewers have observed, this is not a great book, but it's a good one, and I enjoyed it. The tale is told through the viewpoint of Olivia Curtis, who lives with her parents and sister Kate in rural England. The Curtis sisters have been invited to a ball at the home of wealthy but kind neighbors. Lovely, self-assured Kate anticipates the event eagerly, but Olivia, less sure of herself, ...

The Echoing Grove

1 review
Rosamond Lehmann

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1968

Underrated Novel and Writer
I was introduced to this novel when I rented the recent movie The Heart of Me; while watching that lovely film, I kept thinking to myself that this had to be based on a novel as screenplays rarely have the depth of characterization and event that novels do. I was rewarded with the title "The Echoing Grove" when I read the end credits. This novel tells the story of two sisters, one ...

The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)

3 reviews
Jean Cocteau, Rosamond Lehmann

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1966

Like a twisted "Dangerous Liaisons"
Elisabeth and Paul, siblings, are orphaned in adolescence and build a private, closed world for themselves that slowly isolates them in their own brand of madness. When Elisabeth discovers that Paul is falling in love with a girl named Agatha (who reminds him of his childhood love Dargelos), she manipulates Gérard (who's in love with Elisabeth) into marrying Agatha. Paul tries to kill himself and ...

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