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Summer Will Show is a 1936 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. The novel follows a wealthy English noblewoman who falls in love with a female jewish revolutionary and becomes involved in the French Revolution of 1848.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and prestige.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
- First published
- 1936
- Pages
- 406
- Publisher
- The Viking Press, Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin Books-Virago Press
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780241454879
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Sylvia Townsend Warner was a highly individual writer of novels, short stories and poems. She contributed short stories to the New Yorker for more than forty years, translated Proust's Contre Saint-Beuve into English, wrote a biography of the novelist T.H.White and a guide to Somerset. ([Source][1].) Here's the Townsend Warner's bibliography for her: http://www.townsendwarner.com/bibliography.php I wonder if Open Library can match it! [1]: http://www.townsendwarner.com/biography.php
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