Olivia Manning : a woman at war /
Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the Second World War. From the tim...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the Second World War. From the time she left Portsmouth for London in the mid-1930s determined to become a famous writer, through her wartime years in the Balkans and the MiddleEast, and until her death in London in 1980, Olivia Manning was a dedicated and hard-working author. Married to a British Council lecturer stationed in Bucha. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 405 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191655043 019165504X 1283837307 9781283837309 0199609187 9780199609185 9780191803598 0191803596 |