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11 juil. 2017 · About A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error. A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family ...
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A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error, Sybille Bedford, Daniel Mendelsohn, NYRB Classics. Des milliers de livres avec la livraison chez vous en 1 jour ou en magasin avec -5% de réduction .
11 juil. 2017 · Fans of Sybille Bedford's A Legacy will want to read A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error, a new volume that combines two of the inimitable author's intergenerational family sagas.
Her own daughter Flavia, introduced in A Favourite of the Gods, is the heroine of A Compass Error, which begins where the first novel concludes. Flavia too is a brilliant young woman, though both more brash and more faltering than her mother, studying in France for her entrance exam to Oxford when she becomes involved with a mysterious woman ...
A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian prince and makes her home in Rome; her ...
In this sequel to The Favourite of the Gods, seventeen-year-old Flavia, on her own in the south of France in the late 1930s, lives with the confidence and ardor of youth. She knows her destiny-it lies at Oxford, where she will begin a great career of public service.
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