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Zelda Fitzgerald's only novel, Save Me The Waltz (1932) was written in six weeks after her admission to a sanatorium. It covers the period of her life that her husband F Scott Fitzgerald had been drawing on for years while writing Tender is the Night (1934). Fitzgerald revised her novel under her husband's guidance, and died in 1948. Save Me The Waltz is now recognised as a classic novel of the woman's experience in fast-moving Jazz Age American society....
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Handheld classic volume 31
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T H White, author of The Sword in The Stone, The Once and Future King, The Goshawk, and England Have my Bones, died in Greece from a heart attack in 1964, aged 57. On hearing this news, the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner, then aged 71, mourned 'a friend I never managed to have'. A few months later she agreed to write his biography, and travelled to his home in Alderney to survey what materials she could use.
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Business As Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford was first published in 1933. It's a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancé. After a nervous beginning looking for a job while her savings rapidly diminish, she finds work as a typist in the London department store of...
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Following the success of Handheld Press's 2019 best-selling anthology Women's Weird, we will be publishing a second anthology of classic Weird short fiction by women authors. To be published alongside James Machin's anthology of classic British Weird fiction, British Weird, Women's Weird 2 will contain thirteen remarkably chilling stories originally published from 1891 to 1937, by women authors from the USA, the UK, India and Australia. Featured stories...
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This new selection of Algernon Blackwood's essays and short stories is a unique combination of supernatural writing and the author's own reflections on the art of fiction, and the themes and impulses that created these remarkable stories. Stories include: 'Skeleton Lake', 'The Wolves of God', 'The Glamour of the Snow', 'The Sacrifice', 'The Insanity of Jones', 'The Tarn of Sacrifice', 'By Water' and 'Imagination'. Essays include: 'Mid the Haunts of...
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