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GODDEN, Rumer Mistress Margaret Rumer Haynes Dixon was born on December 10, 1907. Daughter of Arthur L. Godden and Katherine N. Hingley.
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Mooltiki and Other Stories
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In this House of Brede: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC) by Rumer Godden (7-Feb-2013) Paperback
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Premlata and the Festival of Lights
(Premlata can hardly wait for Diwali, the Festival of Ligh...)
Premlata can hardly wait for Diwali, the Festival of Lights. On that night, the great Goddess Kali goes out to battle the demons of darkness. And all over India, people set out deepas--tiny lamps shaped like leaves--to help Kali in her fight. But Premlata's family is poor, and Mamoni, her mother, has been forced to sell their deepas. Prem knows she must do something. After all, their house can't be the only one in darkness on the night of the Festival of Lights!
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A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep by Rumer Godden (12-Nov-1987) Hardcover
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Listen to the Nightingale by Godden, Rumer (1994) Mass Market Paperback
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Kingfishers Catch Fire Paperback - March, 1994
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Black narcissus
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The Lady and the Unicorn: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
(In a crumbling Calcutta mansion, with faded frescos and a...)
In a crumbling Calcutta mansion, with faded frescos and a jasmine-covered garden, the Lemarchant family live, clinging to the fringes of respectability: neither Indian nor English, they are accepted by no one and exploited by all. After only a day in India, Stephen Bright meets Rosa Lemarchant. In an ill-fitting dress once belonging to her sister, she is awkward and shy, and couldn't be more different from the stories he has heard of fast 'Eurasian' girls. Ignorant of Calcutta's strict codes of conformity, he falls in love with Rosa and becomes enchanted by the building in which she lives, determined to uncover its secrets. Mystery pervades this story of a memory-haunted house in old Calcutta, as secret as a sundial in a ruined garden.
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The Greengage Summer
(The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarr...)
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who became the children's guardian while their mother lay ill in hospital; sophisticated Mademoiselle Zizi, hotel patronne, and Eliot's devoted lover; 16 year old Joss, the oldest Grey girl, suddenly, achingly beautiful. And the Marne river flowing silent and slow beyond them all ...They would merge together in a gold-green summer of discovery, until the fruit rotted on the trees and cold seeped into their bones ...The Greengage Summer is Rumer Godden's tense, evocative portrait of love and deceit in the Champagne country of the Marne -- which became a memorable film starring Kenneth More and Susannah York. In the preface, Rumer Godden explains how it came to be written. 'An exciting tale, this novel has both charm and atmosphere, and Miss Godden recaptures with an easy unsentimental naturalness the unfocused vision of adolescence' Evening Standard 'One of the finest English novelists' Orville Prescott
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A breath of air
(The story is a retelling of the Tempest, in the South Pac...)
The story is a retelling of the Tempest, in the South Pacific.
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By Rumer Godden - Black Narcissus (Unabridged) (1994-07-23) Paperback
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RUngli-Rungliot
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(The Diddakoi ) Author: Rumer Godden Oct-2013
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Kingfishers Catch Fire
(A powerful novel about idealism and its consequences set ...)
A powerful novel about idealism and its consequences set in the Himalayas. Set in Kashmir, this is the story of Sophie, a young and idealistic Englishwoman with two young daughters who decides to set up house in a remote Indian Village. She finds a tumbledown house nestled into the foothills of the Himalayas and there plans to live peacefully and frugally and at one with the villagers around her. However, she is blissfully ignorant of the turmoil that her arrival produces with the villagers soon in fierce competition for her patronage. Sophie's cook is finally prompted to take action and the consequences of his innocent plotting are catastrophic. This is a poignant story of the conflict between idealism and reality which has strong parallels with Rumer Godden's own life and experiences in the foothills of the Kashmiri Himalaya.
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Black Narcissus
(In the days when it was the General's harem' palace, ladi...)
In the days when it was the General's harem' palace, ladies with their retinues and rich clothes could be seen walking on the high windy terraces. At night, music floated out over villages and gorges far into the early hours. Now the General's son has bestowed it upon the disciplined Sisters of Mary. Beginning work in the orchards and opening a school and a dispensary for the mountain people, the small band of Sisters are depended for help on the English agent, Mr Dean. But his charm and insolent candour are disconcerting. When he says bluntly This is no place for a nunnery', it is as if he already knows their destiny ...Black Narcissus ...bears comparison with A Passage to India ' Arthur Koestler A very remarkable novel indeed. One in a thousand' Observer The writing is lovely, subtle, gentle, humorous and apprehensive' Hugh Walpole A genius for storytelling' Evening Standard
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Chinese puzzle
(Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for ...)
Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Cloth spine a little faded and worn; slight wear to corners of cardboard binding; some foxing; a sound copy.
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(An Episode of Sparrows: A Virago Modern Classic ) Author: Rumer Godden Apr-2014
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An Episode Of Sparrows
(Three enchanting novels by a beloved storyteller- complet...)
Three enchanting novels by a beloved storyteller- complete in this volume.... The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, The Greengage Summer, and An Episode of Sparrows
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The Battle of the Fiorito, The Greenage Summer, An Episode of Sparrows
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Best in Books: The Greengage Summer, Shadows Into Mist, and 2 excerpts: Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and Book of the Seven Seas
(Three plus books in one. This vintage book is a great add...)
Three plus books in one. This vintage book is a great addition to any romance fiction library.
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China Court: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
(Tracy Quinn, daughter of a screen star and raised on film...)
Tracy Quinn, daughter of a screen star and raised on film sets around the world, returns to her adored family home, a country house named China Court. Her grandmother's recent death has set in motion events that threaten Tracy's future and the very existence of China Court. As Tracy fights to save the old house, inhabited by five generations of Quinns, the ancestors who created it are evoked: profligate, faithless Jared; Eliza, the embittered spinster; and Ripsie, an outcast orphan who rose to become the powerful matriarch.
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Vol. 4: The Tilsit Inheritance / Stranger to the Ground / Of Good and Evil / When the Legends Die / The Battle of the Villa Florita
(Reader's Digest condensed authorized editions of: The Til...)
Reader's Digest condensed authorized editions of: The Tilsit Inheritance by Catherine Gaskin, Stranger to the Ground by Richard Bach, Of Good and Evil by Ernest K. Gann, When the Legends Die by Hal Borland, and The Battle of the Villa Florita by Rumer Godden.
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Black Narcissus
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The King's Pleasure/The Day the World Ended/My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr/In This House of Brede/The Black Camels (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 4: 1969)
(great book... old a classic)
great book... old a classic
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The Old Women Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle
(11"x6"The Viking Press, hardcover, 1970)
11"x6"The Viking Press, hardcover, 1970
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A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep Hardcover - December, 1987
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China Court
(Book by Godden, Rumer)
Book by Godden, Rumer
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Take Three Tenses; A Fugue in Time
(Literature)
Literature
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The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle
(A poor old woman is rewarded for her kindness when she th...)
A poor old woman is rewarded for her kindness when she throws back into the lake a little fish purchased for her dinner.
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PEACOCK SPRING by Godden, Rumer (January 12, 1977) Mass Market Paperback
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The greengage summer / Rumer Godden ; foreword by Jane Murray Flutter ; introduction by Jane Asher ; illustrations by Aafke Brouwer
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THE BATTLE OF THE VILLA FIORITA THE GREENAGE SUMMER AND AN EPISODE OF SPARROWS 3 in 1
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An Episode of Sparrows (New York Review Children's Collection)
(A much-loved English novel reminiscent of The Secret Gard...)
A much-loved English novel reminiscent of The Secret Garden Someone has dug up the private garden in the square and taken buckets of dirt, and Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is sure that a gang of boys from run-down Catford Street must be to blame. But Angela's sister Olivia isn't so sure. Olivia wonders why the neighborhood children—the “sparrows” she sometimes watches from the window of her house —have to be locked out of the garden. Don't they have a right to enjoy the place, too? But neither Angela nor Olivia has any idea what sent the neighborhood waif Lovejoy Mason and her few friends in search of “good, garden earth.” Still less do they imagine where their investigation of the incident will lead them—to a struggling restaurant, a bombed-out church, and at the heart of it all, a hidden garden.
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In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (11-Nov-1994) Paperback
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An Episode of Sparrows (New York Review Children's Collection) by Godden, Rumer (2004) Hardcover
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By Rumer Godden - An Episode of Sparrows (New York Review Children's Collection) (2004-11-15) Hardcover
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A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep
(hardcover)
hardcover
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Raphael Bible
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books:The Will of Magda Townsend, Forever Island, ThirtyFour East, The Diddakoi, Lion in the Evening (Volume 3 1974)
(Fictional Novel, Anthology)
Fictional Novel, Anthology
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An Episode of Sparrows Paperback - February 1, 1989
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(The Kitchen Madonna ) Author: Rumer Godden Feb-2010
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Breakfast With the Nikolides
(Rumer Goddens story is of a family whose relationships wi...)
Rumer Goddens story is of a family whose relationships with each other are as fragile and complicated as their relationships with India and her people. But just as the cracks and holes in the house they live in are papered over, somehow they manage to sustain the impression of respectability to the outside world. That is until the death of Emilys beloved dog forces them to confront their differences and ultimately plunges them into outright war.
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Rumer Godden 2 Volumes Set: An Episode of Sparrows & A Breath of Air
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The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden (28-Feb-2013) Paperback
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The Dragon of Og
(For centuries the Dragon of Og has taken for food two bul...)
For centuries the Dragon of Og has taken for food two bullocks a month from the lord's herd, but a new lord declares the custom must end, and so begins a battle of wits.
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An Episode of Sparrows
(247page paperback novel by Rumor Godden.)
247page paperback novel by Rumor Godden.
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The Peacock Spring
(Una Gwithiam is summoned suddenly with her younger sister...)
Una Gwithiam is summoned suddenly with her younger sister Hal, from their English boarding school, to join her father, the diplomat Sir Edward, in New Delhi. Why? No reason is given but soon the secret becomes painfully evident. The author also wrote "Black Narcissus" and "A House with Four Rooms".
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Two Under the Indian Sun
(In 1914, following the outbreak of war, two small sisters...)
In 1914, following the outbreak of war, two small sisters left London to return to India and their home in East Bengal. This book is their remembrance of the five years that followed, in the village of Narayangunj - where there father worked as a steamship agent - on a river that feeds the great Brahmaputa. Jon and Rumer Godden capture all the colour, sound and smell of exotic India, but especially they bring to life again the people of every kind - of place, custom and religion - and as children they were befriended by all. This book is Imperial India remembered, seen through the honesty and clarity of children's eyes.
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Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time by Rumer Godden (1-Sep-1980) Paperback
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 3, 1974 : The Will of Magda Townsend ; Forever Island ; Thirty-Four East ; The Diddakoi ; Lion in the Evening
(The Will of Magda Townsend ; Forever Island ; Thirty-Four...)
The Will of Magda Townsend ; Forever Island ; Thirty-Four East ; The Diddakoi ; Lion in the Evening
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Corazones / El Hessiano / Diddakoi / La Salamandra (READER'S DIGEST ABRIDGED)
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In This House of Brede by Godden, Rumer (2005) Paperback
(Reissue)
Reissue
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books Winter 1968: Edge of Glass - Great Elephant - Color From a Light Within - The Kitchen Madonna - Vanished
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(An Episode of Sparrows ) Author: Rumer Godden Nov-2004
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(An Episode of Sparrows ) Author: Rumer Godden Nov-2004 Hardcover Nov 01, 2004 Rumer Godden ... B0140CY90K
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The Kitchen Madonna/Vanished/Nicholas and Alexandra/Airport (Best Sellers from Reader's Digest Condensed Books)
(The Kitchen Madonna/Vanished/Nicholas and Alexandra/Airpo...)
The Kitchen Madonna/Vanished/Nicholas and Alexandra/Airport (Best Sellers from Reader's Digest Condensed Books)
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The Kitchen Madonna
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An Episode of Sparrows: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
(Someone has been digging up the private garden in the Squ...)
Someone has been digging up the private garden in the Square. Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is sure that a gang of local boys is to blame, but her sister, Olivia, isn't so sure. She wonders why the neighbourhood children - 'sparrows', she calls them - have to be locked out: don't they have a right to enjoy the garden too? Nobody has any idea what sends Lovejoy Mason and her few friends in search of 'good garden earth'. Still less do they imagine where their investigation will lead them - to a struggling restaurant, a bombed-out church, and, at the heart of it all, a hidden garden.
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Four Dolls
(Four magical doll stories by a master storyteller, brough...)
Four magical doll stories by a master storyteller, brought together in one book - Impunity Jane, The Fairy Doll, Holly, and Candy Floss.
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Black Narcissus (The Struggle of a Group of Nuns to Maintain Their Convent in a Disused Indian Palace) COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED 6 Cassettes/9 Hours
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(5 Audio Cassettes) Rumer Godden wrote over sixty books in her lifetime (1907-1998) for both adults and children. Her most acclaimed novel is Black Narcissus, adapted into an Oscar-winning film by Powell and Pressburger in 1947. Author of The Battle of Villa Fiorita and Kingfishers Catch Fire, she chose her favorite locale - the high places of the Indian sub-continent - for this superb story of a group of nuns seeking a spiritual haven. When the Sisters ride their small ponies into the remote village where they are to start a school, they are greeted with a general feeling of suspicion and annoyance. The residents hope that the Sisters will be only a minor inconvenience and try to teach only the ladies. But the shabby, gentle Mr. Dean and the polished young Indian general are only part of a cast of unique people in this rough, high land of snowfalls, songs, and fluttering robes. Each will eventually reach out to the Sisters and teach them much about faith, hope, and the human heart. Over the Sisters' school and the village, the craggy peaks of the Himalayas cast both dark and foreboding shadows and flashes of brilliant sunlight. Godden deftly employs the clash of local culture with Western civilization to transform a romantic suspense story into a riveting drama.
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The Kitchen Madonna
(Marta is unhappy. For quietly aloof Gregory and his siste...)
Marta is unhappy. For quietly aloof Gregory and his sister Janet, Marta, with her thick Ukrainian accent, her good cooking, and her stories, is the anchor of the house. Mother and Father, both busy architects, are gone all day and sometimes at night. Marta is always there; and the children, sensing her unhappiness, do not want her to go away. When they find out that Marta desires a good place in the kitchen, nine-year-old Gregory, with precocious young Janet in tow, sets out to find her a Ukrainian icon in busy, modern London. Master storyteller Rumer Godden deftly brings to life a portrait of a lonely boy discovering the creative power of love.
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Swans & turtles
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Diddakoi Family Bookshelf Edition
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Breakfast with the Nikolides (VMC)
(For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has th...)
For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal, and admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides. But just as the cracks in Emily's family home are papered over, so do the Pools strive to maintain an outward impression of respectability, and it is through the Nikolides that Emily is exposed to a world of adult deceit and attrition. And when her beloved dog dies, the event forces a confrontation and reveals to Emily that nothing in the town is quite as it seems . . .
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Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC) by Rumer Godden (7-Feb-2013) Paperback
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The Diddakoi
(Everyone in Kizzy's town hates her because she's half-gyp...)
Everyone in Kizzy's town hates her because she's half-gypsy -- a diddakoi. But Kizzy doesn't care. All she needs is Gran and her horse, Joe. But when Gran dies and their wagon burns down, Kizzy is all alone. No one wants to look after her and her beloved Joe might get sent to the knacker's yard. Can Kizzy survive in a hostile world -- and save Joe?
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The Little Chair (Hodder story book)
(This is a journey through time which revolves around a li...)
This is a journey through time which revolves around a little chair, which is older than any of the characters. Five generations of children have sat on it, and have listened to many stories over the years.
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Listen to the Nightingale: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
('Never forget, Charlotte, you were born to be a dancer .....)
'Never forget, Charlotte, you were born to be a dancer ...Never forget. Promise.' Before her ballet teacher died, Lottie promised Madame Holbein to be the dancer her mother never lived to become. Orphaned at birth, Lottie has been brought up by her aunt, and though she is loved, she is lonely. Then she finds Prince, a spaniel puppy, and discovers a love and loyalty that is boundless. When Lottie passes the tough audition for Queen's Chase, Her Majesty's Junior Ballet School, everybody is thrilled - except, surprisingly, Lottie. She will have to board at school, and what will happen to her beloved dog? To choose between the two is breaking her heart.
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Three Novels in One (1) The Battle of the Villa Fiorita; (2) The Greengage Summer; (3) An Episode of Sparrows
(Three novels by Rumer Godden.)
Three novels by Rumer Godden.
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China Court Hours of a Country House
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A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep 1st Thus edition by Godden, Rumer (1987) Paperback
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In This House of Brede IN THIS HOUSE OF BREDE By Godden, Rumer ( Author )Feb-01-2005 Paperback
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Two Under the Indian Sun
(An Account of Five Years Spent by the Authors as Children...)
An Account of Five Years Spent by the Authors as Children in Bengal During the First World War. With Plates, Including Portraits..
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A fugue in time
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Indian Dust
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In This House of Brede The Life of and Enclosed House of Nuns
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Condensed Books: Andersonville / Island in the Sun / An Episode of Sparrows / Minding Our Own Business / The Long Ride Home; Winter Selections (Volume 1 / One)
(Illustrated.)
Illustrated.
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In This House of Brede: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
('The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of th...)
'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort.' Bruised by tragedy, Philippa Talbot leaves behind a successful career with the civil service for a new calling: to join an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns. In this small community of fewer than one hundred women, she soon discovers all the human frailties: jealousy, love, despair. But each crisis of heart and conscience is guided by the compassion and intelligence of the Abbess and by the Sisters' shared bond of faith and ritual. Away from the world, and yet at one with it, Philippa must learn to forgive and forget her past ...
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A Fugue in Time: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
(Grizel Dane, a bold young servicewoman in the US army, ar...)
Grizel Dane, a bold young servicewoman in the US army, arrives at the London home of her great-uncle Sir Rollo Dane seeking refuge from the chaos of wartime. Through the old man, Grizel learns the surprising history of the Dane family and Lark Ingoldsby. Orphaned by a train crash, Lark was taken in by the Danes as an adoptive daughter but soon found herself caught in a web of sibling rivalry, love and attrition. Selina Dane, racked with jealousy, set out to destroy Lark's dreams of love. When Grizel falls for Pax Masterson, a wounded airman, Rollo urges her to seize her chance for happiness, as he was not able to. Rumer Godden's dramatic story of romance and tragedy was the basis for the classic film Enchantment starring David Niven.
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In This House of Brede
( “A novel of sensitive dedication.” —The Atlantic Monthl...)
“A novel of sensitive dedication.” —The Atlantic Monthly “Rumer Godden deals precisely with the theme of the religious life . . . as representing ‘the heart of holiness of the Church.’ It is at once a life of great peace and often equally intense struggle.” —America magazine This extraordinarily sensitive and insightful portrait of religious life centers on Philippa Talbot, a highly successful professional woman who leaves her life among the London elite to join a cloistered Benedictine community. In this gripping narrative of the crises surrounding the ancient Brede abbey, Rumer Godden penetrates to the mysterious, inner heart of a religious community—a place of complexity and conflict, as well as joy and love. It is a place where Philippa, to her own surprise and her friends’ astonishment, finds her life by losing it.
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Kingfishers catch fire (Four square books-no.102)
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(Listen to the Nightingale: A Virago Modern Classic ) Author: Rumer Godden Apr-2013
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Black Narcissus (VMC)
(High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountainto...)
High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. When it was the General's 'harem' palace, richly dressed ladies wandered the windswept terraces; at night, music floated out over the villages and gorges. Now, the General's son has bestowed it on an order of nuns, the Sisters of Mary. Well-intentioned yet misguided, the nuns set about taming the gardens and opening a school and dispensary for the villagers. They are dependent on the local English agent of Empire, Mr Dean; but his charm and insolent candour are disconcerting. And the implacable emptiness of the mountain, the ceaseless winds, exact a toll on the Sisters.When Mr Dean says bluntly, 'This is no place for a nunnery,' it is as if he foresees their destiny...
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A Candle for St. Jude
(New York: Viking Press, 1948. Book Club Edition, Hardboun...)
New York: Viking Press, 1948. Book Club Edition, Hardbound, about 8.25 inches tall, 252 pages. Dust jacket design by Dana Saintsbury. A novel set in a London ballet school.
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Mooltiki: Stories and Poems from India
(Illustrated by Sheila Auden. Poems and stories of Bengal,...)
Illustrated by Sheila Auden. Poems and stories of Bengal, Himalayan Nomads, Kashmir and the Jungle. Dust jacket art by Jeanyee Wong.
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An Episode of Sparrows: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC) by Rumer Godden (17-Apr-2014) Paperback
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Kingfishers Catch Fire (VMC)
(Sophie, an English ingénue with two children, arrives in ...)
Sophie, an English ingénue with two children, arrives in Himalayan Kashmir to set up home in a tumbledown cottage surrounded by flowers and herbs. Settling down to live quietly, frugally and peacefully with her new neighbours, she is unaware of the turmoil her arrival provokes as the villagers compete fiercely for her patronage. Sophie's cook makes a drastic bid to secure his position, and the unwanted consequences are catastrophic.
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Edge of Glass/Great Elephant/Color from a Light Within/The Kitchen Madonna/Vanished (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 1: 1968)
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Pippa Passes
(A young English ballet dancer, Pippa Fane, journeys to Ve...)
A young English ballet dancer, Pippa Fane, journeys to Venice with a touring company and discovers love, evil, and the vast complexities of the adult world. By the author of An Episode of Sparrows.
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Black Narcissus
(A story of a small group of nuns trying to establish a sc...)
A story of a small group of nuns trying to establish a school in the Himalayas. Their efforts, trials and finally loss.
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The Kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden (2010) Hardcover
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The Diddakoi (Winner of the Whibread Children's Book Award) by Rumer Godden (3-Sep-2004) Paperback
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The Battle of the Villa Florita
(Battle of the Villa Florita, The, by Godden, Rumer)
Battle of the Villa Florita, The, by Godden, Rumer
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Two Under the Indian Sun
(Two Under the Indian Sun", a unique collaboration, is a r...)
Two Under the Indian Sun", a unique collaboration, is a remembrance of the five years...more
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- Rumer Godden Treble: "Coromandel Sea Change", "Greengage Summer", "River, The" (This volume contains three Rumer Godden novels: "Cor...)
- The Peacock Spring Unabridged edition by Godden, Rumer (1998) Paperback
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The Greengage Summer
(The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarr...)
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Rumer Godden Treble: "Coromandel Sea Change", "Greengage Summer", "River, The"
(This volume contains three Rumer Godden novels: "Coromand...)
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An Episode of Sparrows (New York Review Children's Collection)
(A much-loved English novel reminiscent of The Secret Gard...)
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The Lady and the Unicorn: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
(In a crumbling Calcutta mansion, with faded frescos and a...)
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The Dragon of Og
(For centuries the Dragon of Og has taken for food two bul...)
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Vol. 4: The Tilsit Inheritance / Stranger to the Ground / Of Good and Evil / When the Legends Die / The Battle of the Villa Florita
(Reader's Digest condensed authorized editions of: The Til...)
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The Peacock Spring
(Una Gwithiam is summoned suddenly with her younger sister...)
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A Fugue in Time: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
(Grizel Dane, a bold young servicewoman in the US army, ar...)
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Pippa Passes
(A young English ballet dancer, Pippa Fane, journeys to Ve...)
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Breakfast With the Nikolides
(Rumer Goddens story is of a family whose relationships wi...)
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China Court: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
(Tracy Quinn, daughter of a screen star and raised on film...)
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Black Narcissus
(In the days when it was the General's harem' palace, ladi...)
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Kingfishers Catch Fire (VMC)
(Sophie, an English ingénue with two children, arrives in ...)
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Four Dolls
(Four magical doll stories by a master storyteller, brough...)
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The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle
(A poor old woman is rewarded for her kindness when she th...)
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Two Under the Indian Sun
(In 1914, following the outbreak of war, two small sisters...)
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Black Narcissus (The Struggle of a Group of Nuns to Maintain Their Convent in a Disused Indian Palace) COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED 6 Cassettes/9 Hours
((5 Audio Cassettes) Rumer Godden wrote over sixty books i...)
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Breakfast with the Nikolides (VMC)
(For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has th...)
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The Kitchen Madonna/Vanished/Nicholas and Alexandra/Airport (Best Sellers from Reader's Digest Condensed Books)
(The Kitchen Madonna/Vanished/Nicholas and Alexandra/Airpo...)
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The Little Chair (Hodder story book)
(This is a journey through time which revolves around a li...)
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 3, 1974 : The Will of Magda Townsend ; Forever Island ; Thirty-Four East ; The Diddakoi ; Lion in the Evening
(The Will of Magda Townsend ; Forever Island ; Thirty-Four...)
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Two Under the Indian Sun
(An Account of Five Years Spent by the Authors as Children...)
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(An Episode of Sparrows ) Author: Rumer Godden Nov-2004
((An Episode of Sparrows ) Author: Rumer Godden Nov-2004 H...)
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Black Narcissus (VMC)
(High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountainto...)
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Two Under the Indian Sun
(Two Under the Indian Sun", a unique collaboration, is a r...)
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Black Narcissus
(A story of a small group of nuns trying to establish a sc...)
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Kingfishers Catch Fire
(A powerful novel about idealism and its consequences set ...)
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An Episode Of Sparrows
(Three enchanting novels by a beloved storyteller- complet...)
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The Diddakoi
(Everyone in Kizzy's town hates her because she's half-gyp...)
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Chinese puzzle
(Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for ...)
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A breath of air
(The story is a retelling of the Tempest, in the South Pac...)
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In This House of Brede: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
('The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of th...)
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An Episode of Sparrows: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
(Someone has been digging up the private garden in the Squ...)
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Premlata and the Festival of Lights
(Premlata can hardly wait for Diwali, the Festival of Ligh...)
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Listen to the Nightingale: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
('Never forget, Charlotte, you were born to be a dancer .....)
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The Battle of the Villa Florita
(Battle of the Villa Florita, The, by Godden, Rumer)
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An Episode of Sparrows
(247page paperback novel by Rumor Godden.)
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The Old Women Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle
(11"x6"The Viking Press, hardcover, 1970)
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In This House of Brede
( “A novel of sensitive dedication.” —The Atlantic Monthl...)
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Three Novels in One (1) The Battle of the Villa Fiorita; (2) The Greengage Summer; (3) An Episode of Sparrows
(Three novels by Rumer Godden.)
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A Candle for St. Jude
(New York: Viking Press, 1948. Book Club Edition, Hardboun...)
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Mooltiki: Stories and Poems from India
(Illustrated by Sheila Auden. Poems and stories of Bengal,...)
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books:The Will of Magda Townsend, Forever Island, ThirtyFour East, The Diddakoi, Lion in the Evening (Volume 3 1974)
(Fictional Novel, Anthology)
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Best in Books: The Greengage Summer, Shadows Into Mist, and 2 excerpts: Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and Book of the Seven Seas
(Three plus books in one. This vintage book is a great add...)
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China Court
(Book by Godden, Rumer)
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The Kitchen Madonna
(Marta is unhappy. For quietly aloof Gregory and his siste...)
- Raphael Bible
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Condensed Books: Andersonville / Island in the Sun / An Episode of Sparrows / Minding Our Own Business / The Long Ride Home; Winter Selections (Volume 1 / One)
(Illustrated.)
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The King's Pleasure/The Day the World Ended/My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr/In This House of Brede/The Black Camels (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 4: 1969)
(great book... old a classic)
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Take Three Tenses; A Fugue in Time
(Literature)
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A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep
(hardcover)
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In This House of Brede by Godden, Rumer (2005) Paperback
(Reissue)
- Mooltiki and Other Stories
- In this House of Brede: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC) by Rumer Godden (7-Feb-2013) Paperback
- A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep by Rumer Godden (12-Nov-1987) Hardcover
- Listen to the Nightingale by Godden, Rumer (1994) Mass Market Paperback
- Kingfishers Catch Fire Paperback - March, 1994
- Black narcissus
- By Rumer Godden - Black Narcissus (Unabridged) (1994-07-23) Paperback
- RUngli-Rungliot
- (The Diddakoi ) Author: Rumer Godden Oct-2013
- The Peacock Spring Unabridged edition by Godden, Rumer (1998) Paperback
- (An Episode of Sparrows: A Virago Modern Classic ) Author: Rumer Godden Apr-2014
- The Battle of the Fiorito, The Greenage Summer, An Episode of Sparrows
- Black Narcissus
- A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep Hardcover - December, 1987
- PEACOCK SPRING by Godden, Rumer (January 12, 1977) Mass Market Paperback
- The greengage summer / Rumer Godden ; foreword by Jane Murray Flutter ; introduction by Jane Asher ; illustrations by Aafke Brouwer
- THE BATTLE OF THE VILLA FIORITA THE GREENAGE SUMMER AND AN EPISODE OF SPARROWS 3 in 1
- In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (11-Nov-1994) Paperback
- An Episode of Sparrows (New York Review Children's Collection) by Godden, Rumer (2004) Hardcover
- By Rumer Godden - An Episode of Sparrows (New York Review Children's Collection) (2004-11-15) Hardcover
- An Episode of Sparrows Paperback - February 1, 1989
- (The Kitchen Madonna ) Author: Rumer Godden Feb-2010
- Rumer Godden 2 Volumes Set: An Episode of Sparrows & A Breath of Air
- The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden (28-Feb-2013) Paperback
- Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time by Rumer Godden (1-Sep-1980) Paperback
- Corazones / El Hessiano / Diddakoi / La Salamandra (READER'S DIGEST ABRIDGED)
- Reader's Digest Condensed Books Winter 1968: Edge of Glass - Great Elephant - Color From a Light Within - The Kitchen Madonna - Vanished
- The Kitchen Madonna
- Swans & turtles
- Diddakoi Family Bookshelf Edition
- Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC) by Rumer Godden (7-Feb-2013) Paperback
- China Court Hours of a Country House
- A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep 1st Thus edition by Godden, Rumer (1987) Paperback
- In This House of Brede IN THIS HOUSE OF BREDE By Godden, Rumer ( Author )Feb-01-2005 Paperback
- A fugue in time
- Indian Dust
- In This House of Brede The Life of and Enclosed House of Nuns
- Kingfishers catch fire (Four square books-no.102)
- (Listen to the Nightingale: A Virago Modern Classic ) Author: Rumer Godden Apr-2013
- An Episode of Sparrows: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC) by Rumer Godden (17-Apr-2014) Paperback
- Edge of Glass/Great Elephant/Color from a Light Within/The Kitchen Madonna/Vanished (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 1: 1968)
- The Kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden (2010) Hardcover
- The Diddakoi (Winner of the Whibread Children's Book Award) by Rumer Godden (3-Sep-2004) Paperback
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