In this book of tragedy and great beauty, Rose Macaulay's only historical novel, she reveals a lifelong passion for the seventeenth century. Here she interweaves the lives of Robert Herrick and other poets with those of a small group of fictional characters, setting them vividly in one of the most turbulent periods in English history. "The the great enrichment of the English language Miss Macaulay has chosen an historical subject....She has added something permanent to English letters."--Observer Rose Macaulay was a successful novelist whose works include Potterism and The Towers of Trebizond. Susan Howatch is the author of The Dark Shore and Penmarric.

They Were Defeated (Twentieth Century Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Macaulay, Rose, Dame

Genre Fiction

Oxford University Press

Rose Macaulay traveled down the Catalonian, Valencian, Andalusian, and Algrave coast in the 1940s, just after the Spanish Civil War, when the roads were still pitted with shell holes and the victors were rebuilding their war-torn churches. Fabled Shore, her fascinating account of this trip, has become one of the classics in travel writing.  Steeped in Spanish history, and filled with stories of her meetings with children, fishermen, and the still-active anti-Francoists, it describes the coast of Spain before the tourists of sun-starved Northern Europe invaded, turning it into a commercial center. Benidorm was then a fishing village frequented by smugglers; Torremolinos, a small town boasting but a single hotel. Versed Spanish history and architecture, Macaulay (who attracted enormous attention, traveling as an unaccompanied woman in a car) has left a marvelous picture of Spain as it was and, in some ways, still is.  "Rewarding for those who know and love Spain or for those who hope to do so someday."--Christian Science Monitor  ·"A book of extraordinary charm."--The Nation  About the Author:  The late Rose Macaulay was a well-known novelist and travel writer. They Were Defeated, another of her books, was recently reissued by Oxford University Press.  Raymond Carr, also a well-known travel writer, is Warden of St. Anthony's College, Oxford.  One of the classics of travel writing, describing the untraveled coast of Spain just after the Civil War

Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenées to Portugal (Oxford Paperbacks)

Travel

Europe

Hailed as “an utter delight, the most brilliant witty and charming book I have read since I can’t remember when” by The New York Times when it was originally published in 1956, Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond tells the gleefully absurd story of Aunt Dot, Father Chantry-Pigg, Aunt Dot’s deranged camel, and our narrator, Laurie, who are traveling from Istanbul to legendary Trebizond on a convoluted mission. Along the way they will encounter spies, a Greek sorcerer, a precocious ape, and Billy Graham with a busload of evangelists. Part travelogue, part comedy, it is also a meditation on love, faith, doubt, and the difficulties, moral and intellectual, of being a Christian in the modern world.

Towers of Trebizond

British & Irish

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

What Not: A Prophetic Comedy (1918)

Dramas & Plays

Kessinger Publishing

Rose Macaulay was one of the most popular satirical novelists of her day. In this lively, anecdotal collection, she turns her admittedly opinionated attention to life's random, and largely unrecorded, pleasures. From as-tronomy to new cars, church-going to the turtles in Hyde Park, she never fails to delight and amuse with her sure philosophical sense, sharp wit, and unerring eye for life's subtle ironies. "How true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Therefore, I have added to most of my pleasures the little flavor of bitterness, the flaw in their perfec-tions ...which tang their sweetness and remind us of their mortality and our own, and that nothing in this world is perfect."

Personal Pleasures

Essays & Correspondence

Ecco Pr

A successful journalist, Daisy Simpson's life is unexpectedly complicated by her alter ego Daphne

Keeping Up Appearances

Classics

Carroll & Graf Pub.

Potterism

History

BiblioLife

Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings (1922)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Three Days (1852)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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