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“[The book] I’ll be pressing into people’s hands forever is “Lolly Willowes,” the 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favor of freedom and the most unexpected of alliances. It completely blindsided me: Starting as... Read More about Lolly Willowes

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.A Penguin Classics HardcoverLolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly... Read More about Lolly Willowes (Little Clothbound Classics)

Considered an early feminist classic, Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes; Or The Loving Huntsman is a fantastical comedy about a middle-aged witch and her search for peace that was selected as the first ever Book of the Month upon publication in 1926. "When her father died, Laura Willowes went ... Read More about Lolly Willowes: Or, the Loving Huntsman (Mint Editions (Fantasy and Fairytale))

"A book for anyone who has heard the horns of Elfin in the distance at twilight." - Neil Gaiman In Kingdoms of Elfin Sylvia Townsend Warner explores the morals, domestic practices, politics and passions of Elfins. She follows their affairs with mortals, and their daring flights across the North Sea... Read More about Kingdoms of Elfin (Handheld Fantasy Classics #3)

"This is the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle-class Englishwoman who politely declines to make the expected connection with the opposite sex and becomes a witch instead." -- John Updike Forty-seven-year-old Lolly Willowes is a conventional maiden aunt, an unpaid companion and... Read More about Lolly Willowes

T H White, author of The Sword in The Stone, The Once and Future King, The Goshawk, and many other works of English literature, died in Greece from a heart attack in 1964, aged 57. The eminent novelist and critic Sylvia Townsend Warner was asked to write his biography, now republished for a new gene... Read More about Th White. a Biography: A Biography (Handheld Biographies #4)