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Margaret Drabble

Autor(a) de The Oxford Companion to English Literature

57+ Works 12,743 Membros 266 Reviews 41 Favorited

About the Author

Margaret Drabble was born on June 5, 1939 in Sheffield, England. She attended The Mount School in York and Newnham College, Cambridge University. After graduation, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford during which time she understudied for Vanessa Redgrave. She is a novelist, mostrar mais critic, and the editor of the fifth edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Her works include A Summer Bird Cage; The Millstone, which won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize in 1966; Jerusalem the Golden, which won James Tait Black Prize in 1967; and The Witch of Exmoor. She also received the E. M. Forster award and was awarded a Society of Authors Travelling Fellowship in the 1960s and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1980. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras de Margaret Drabble

The Red Queen (2004) 932 cópias
The Millstone (1965) 929 cópias
The Radiant Way (1987) 814 cópias
The Peppered Moth (2000) 714 cópias
The Seven Sisters (2002) 697 cópias
The Needle's Eye (1972) 450 cópias
The Witch of Exmoor (1996) 449 cópias
A Natural Curiosity (1989) 443 cópias
The Ice Age (1977) 426 cópias
The Dark Flood Rises (2016) 405 cópias
A Summer Bird-cage (1963) 400 cópias
The Waterfall (1969) 395 cópias
The Realms of Gold (1975) 384 cópias
The Sea Lady (2006) 381 cópias
The Gates of Ivory (1991) 372 cópias
Jerusalem the Golden (1967) 369 cópias
The Middle Ground (1980) 345 cópias
The Garrick Year (1964) 334 cópias
The Pure Gold Baby (2013) 287 cópias
Arnold Bennett: A Biography (1974) 90 cópias
Angus Wilson: A Biography (1995) 64 cópias
The Gifts of War (2011) 22 cópias
Wordsworth (1966) 11 cópias
The Genius of Thomas Hardy (1976) 11 cópias
Great Poets of the 20th Century: Sylvia Plath (2008) — Prefácio — 9 cópias
London Consequences (1972) 6 cópias
Hassan's Tower 1 exemplar(es)
Sığ Sularda 1 exemplar(es)
Le Milieu de la Vie 1 exemplar(es)
Stækkede vinger (2001) 1 exemplar(es)
Tornado Pratt 1 exemplar(es)
Loistava tilaisuus 1 exemplar(es)
La Mer toujours recommencée (2008) 1 exemplar(es)
Crossing the Alps 1 exemplar(es)
Safe as Houses (1990) 1 exemplar(es)
The Þpeppered moth 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Pride and Prejudice (1813) — Introdução, algumas edições80,089 cópias
Sense and Sensibility (1811) — Introdução, algumas edições37,891 cópias
Emma (1815) — Introdução, algumas edições37,728 cópias
Persuasion (1817) — Introdução, algumas edições28,519 cópias
Mansfield Park (1814) — Introdução, algumas edições22,365 cópias
Northanger Abbey (1817) — Introdução, algumas edições21,479 cópias
20.000 Léguas Submarinas (1870) — Introdução, algumas edições18,245 cópias
Middlemarch (1871) — Introdução, algumas edições17,621 cópias
Rumo ao Farol (1927) — Editor, algumas edições17,491 cópias
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) — Introdução, algumas edições11,322 cópias
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon (1925) — Editor, algumas edições; Introdução, algumas edições1,972 cópias
Ann Veronica (1909) — Introdução, algumas edições485 cópias
Owls Do Cry (1957) — Introdução, algumas edições460 cópias
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Contribuinte — 365 cópias
Stories (1978) — Introdução — 360 cópias
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (2003) — Contribuinte — 280 cópias
Cocksure (1968) — Posfácio, algumas edições276 cópias
The Juniper Tree (1985) — Prefácio, algumas edições265 cópias
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (1990) — Contribuinte — 168 cópias
Poor Cow (1967) — Introdução, algumas edições149 cópias
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Contribuinte — 117 cópias
The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1990) — Contribuinte — 100 cópias
Wuthering Heights and Poems (1900) — Introdução, algumas edições97 cópias
Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (2020) — Contribuinte — 74 cópias
The Guardian Review Book of Short Stories (2011) — Autor — 50 cópias
Simonetta Perkins (1925) — Prefácio, algumas edições50 cópias
Into the Widening World: International Coming-of-Age Stories (1995) — Contribuinte — 28 cópias
The Undiscovered Country (1968) — Prefácio, algumas edições28 cópias
The Shakespeare circle : an alternative biography (2015) — Contribuinte — 26 cópias
Slightly Foxed 71: Jocelin's Folly (2021) — Contribuinte — 21 cópias
Slightly Foxed 59: Manhattan Moments (2018) — Contribuinte — 16 cópias
Collision: Stories From the Science of CERN (2023) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
A Love Letter to Europe: An Outpouring of Sadness and Hope (2019) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
A Day to Remember to Forget (1971) — Introdução, algumas edições3 cópias
Birds of Prey: Seven Sardonic Stories (2010) — Introdução — 2 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Holroyd, Dame Margaret Drabble
Data de nascimento
1939-06-05
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK
País (para mapa)
England, UK
Local de nascimento
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Locais de residência
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
York, Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Educação
The Mount, York
University of Cambridge (Newnham College)
Ocupação
novelist
critic
biographer
Relacionamentos
Holroyd, Michael (husband)
Byatt, A. S. (sister)
Langdon, Helen (sister)
Swift, Joe (son)
Swift, Rebecca (1) (daughter)
Organizações
Royal Shakespeare Company (1960-1963)
Booktrust
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 2002)
Premiações
Order of the British Empire (Commander ∙ 1980)
DLitt (hc ∙ University of Cambridge ∙ 2006)
E. M. Forster Award (1973)
Order of the British Empire (Dame Commander ∙ 2008)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Agente
PFD, Drury House
Pequena biografia
MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye, among other novels. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.

Drabble has famously been engaged in a long-running feud with her novelist sister, A.S. Byatt, over the alleged appropriation of a family tea-set in one of her novels. The pair seldom see each other and each does not read the books of the other.

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Discussions

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Just not for me. Rumination on aging, as reflected on by the primary and a number of secondary characters. I found the characters and their context simply didn't engage me in a meaningful way. Nothing particularly insightful, instructive or entertaining about the act of aging.
 
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vscauzzo | outras 20 resenhas | Jan 29, 2024 |
The story of Liz, Alix and Esther continues. Alix has moved north, to the town where Liz was raised. She is interested in understanding the motivations of the serial killer Paul Whitmore, who we met in the first book, and she is visiting him in prison. Liz, a public intellectual, finds herself mired in controversy after some comments she makes on child sexuality. Esther is still living in Italy with her female lover, but is trying to decide whether to break that off, return to England, and possibly marry a man. Liz's sister Shirley, has a prominent role as she takes off on a lark after the death of her husband.

While the novel continues the saga of life in Britain in the 1980's, I did not find it as engaging as the first novel. For one thing, there are seemingly dozens of peripheral characters who make briefs appearances, one or two, but really don't seem to serve any purpose other than to pontificate. To me, the book really seemed to lack focus, and even a narrative arc. Drabble seems to experiment a bit with metafiction, as well, which also didn't work for me. She randomly speaks directly to the reader, for example, asking where the book should go? Here's some of that text as she's trying to resolve the Shirley plot:

"What do you think will happen to her? Do you think our end is known in our beginning, that we are predetermined, that we endlessly repeat?"

then,

"(And anyway, what is her age? I must say I have lost track of this a little myself. Is she 48 or 49 now, as I had thought, or 50, as others tell me? And if she is 50, does that make her behaviour more or less implausible?)"
(Note this is not a first person narrative book, or a character saying this--it's the author butting in).

and then,

"Shall she resume her non-existence? Is that what you seriously expect?"

and then,

"What possible future could there be for him and Shirley? I have made him as plausible as I can, I have offered him motivation, but I have to admit that it doesn't seem possible that he and Shirley can continue to go on seeing one another."

Annoying.

The final book in the trilogy, The Gates of Ivory is on my Kindle, and I have read very good things about it. I'll be reading it soon, and I hope it is better than this one was.

2 1/2 stars.
… (mais)
½
 
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arubabookwoman | 1 outra resenha | Dec 28, 2023 |
This book had so much potential! It was my first introduction to Korean history as it is, I'm sure, for many Westerners, and indeed, it is the premise of the book. Lady Hong's incredible story, its colourful and tragic denouement, is well worth telling, a glimpse into what must be a great saga. The book's construction is also unique and compelling. Yet, the plodding, rigid, almost academic style left me indifferent and at times bored while I tried to focus on the story. How much better could this have been with a bit more panache, dialogue and... chapters.
For a book meant to illuminate it is very hermetic, too much for my taste.
… (mais)
½
 
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Cecilturtle | outras 42 resenhas | Dec 26, 2023 |
Glorious, gorgeous, generous, gregarious, gracious, and garrulous.
 
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therebelprince | outras 11 resenhas | Oct 24, 2023 |

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