Rose Macaulay

From the author of the beloved novel The Towers of Trebizond, a book about Portugal that is part travelogue, part history and wholly personal.Rose Macaulay first travelled to Lisbon in March 1943 to escape the misery of London following the death of her lover and loss ofher bombed flat. Turning to letters, diaries and travelogues, she brought together the reactions of some of the many Britons who had travelled to Portugal over the centuries, looking to understand why they journeyed there.Henry Fielding sailed to Portugal with his household in search of a cure for dropsy, jaundice and asthma. The rather more alluring promise of orange-scented and wine-soaked afternoons was what drew fellow novelist William Beckford to its shores. Byron meanwhile was sent into a black rage and wrote vehemently of the country in his poetry.Rich in detail, ambitious in scope, They Went to Portugal rambles down the centuries, bringing us the voices and experiences of a fascinating cast of characters. From pirate crusaders to ambassadors, from clergymen ofall denominations to the port-winetrading pioneers, all are animated by lays humour and astute eye.

Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of civilised behaviour. CREWE TRAIN is one of Macaulays wittiest satires. The reactions of Denham to the manners and modes of the highbrow circle in which she finds herself provide a devastating - and very funny - social commentary as well as a moving story.This bitingly funny, elegantly written comedy of manners is as absorbing and entertaining today as on the books first publication in 1967.

Through a variety of experiences of the effects of the First World War, an art student is drawn into pacifism. Rose Macaulays satirical novel is passionate, and witty - Summary by Anthony Ogus

Publicado en 1918, reeditado en 1919 y luego olvidado, Y todo eso. Una comedia profética es un clásico de ciencia ficción cuya reciente recuperación se ha celebrado como un gran acontecimiento. Unos años despues de la Gran Guerra, y con el objetivo de que no haya nunca otra semejante, el Ministerio de Cerebros clasifica a los ciudadanos en distintas categorias segun su nivel de inteligencia y establece un rigido sistema de autorizaciones para casarse y tener hijos. Sin embargo, el proyecto choca con la resistencia de la poblacion y da lugar a paradojas como la que viven la funcionaria del Ministerio Kitty Grammont y el ministro e ideologo del sistema, Nicholas Chester, con la prensa siempre al acecho. Y todo eso es una novela satirica que denuncia los regimenes basados en la ingenieria social y la manipulacion de los medios desde un punto de vista feminista. El libro precede en catorce años la celebre Un mundo feliz (1932), de Aldous Huxley, quien, por cierto, visitaba a Rose Macaulay con frecuencia cuando ella escribia Y todo eso.

Poignant and inspiringSUNDAY TELEGRAPH The World My Wilderness . . . had a powerful effect on me as a young reader HERMIONE LEE, GUARDIAN An elegiac, evocative depiction of the aftermath of the Second World War PARIS REVIEW It is 1946 and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the War. Sent by her beautiful, indolent mother to England, Barbary Deniston is thrown into the care of her distinguished father and conventional stepmother. Barbary has spent her childhood years in the sunshine of Provence. During the War, she ran wild with the Maquis, experiencing collaboration, betrayal and resistance. In peacetime the young woman has been taken away from all she knows and placed into the drab austerity of post-war London life. Confused and unhappy, she discovers the flowering bomb craters around St Pauls Cathedral. Here, in the bombed heart of London, with the outcasts living on the edge of society, she finds an echo of the wilderness of Provence and is forced to confront the wilderness within herself.

Rose Macaulay is ripe for rediscoveryTHE TIMES A pleasure and a triumph ERIC LINKLATER One of her very wittiest booksOBSERVER Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of civilised behaviour. Crewe Train is Macaulays wittiest social satire. The reactions of Denham to the manners and modes of the highbrow circle in which she finds herself provide a devastating - and very funny - social commentary as well as a moving story.This bitingly funny, elegantly written comedy of manners is as absorbing and entertaining today as on the books first publication in 1926.

"Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return to High Mass. Thus starts, with one of the most famous opening lines in modern English literature, Rose Macaulays classic novel, The Towers of Trebizond. As wise, civilised and wholly entertaining as it was when first published in 1956, the novel tells the beautifully absurd story of the inimitable Aunt Dot, her niece Laurie and Father Chantry-Pigg and of their expedition together to Turkey to explore the possibility of establishing a High Anglican mission there. Each member of the party has an additional extra-curricular motivation for making the trip: Father Chantry-Pigg wishes to meet the fanatics in residence at the top of Mount Ararat; Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women through wider use of the bathing hat; Lauries object ispure pleasure

De lautora dEl món, la meva selva.«Lamor és una malaltia. Però té cura. I passa.»La jove Denham Dobie ha crescut entre les muntanyes dAndorra en una llibertat tranquil·la i despreocupada, però aquest

Publicado en 1918, reeditado en 1919 y luego olvidado, "Y todo eso. Una comedia profetica" es un clásico de ciencia ficción cuya reciente recuperación se ha celebrado como un gran acontecimiento. Unos años despues de la Gran Guerra, y con el objetivo de que no haya nunca otra semejante, el Ministerio de Cerebros clasifica a los ciudadanos en distintas categorias segun su nivel de inteligencia y establece un rigido sistema de autorizaciones para casarse y tener hijos. Sin embargo, el proyecto choca con la resistencia de la poblacion y da lugar a paradojas como la que viven la funcionaria del Ministerio Kitty Grammont y el ministro e ideologo del sistema, Nicholas Chester, con la prensa siempre al acecho. Y todo eso es una novela satirica que denuncia los regimenes basados en la ingenieria social y la manipulacion de los medios desde un punto de vista feminista. El libro precede en catorce años la celebre "Un mundo feliz" (1932), de Aldous Huxley, quien, por cierto, visitaba a Rose Macaulay con frecuencia cuando ella escribia "Y todo eso".

Publicat el 1918, reeditat el 1919 i despres oblidat, "I tot aixo". Una comedia profetica es un clàssic de ciencia-ficció la recent recuperació del qual s’ha celebrat com un gran esdeveniment. Uns an

En 1946, mientras Europa empieza a recuperarse de las consecuencias de la guerra, Barbary Deniston llega a Londres para vivir junto a su padre, un hombre estricto, y su segunda esposa, una mujer muy convencional. A Barbary, una adolescente que ha vivido los ultimos siete años en Francia con su madre al sol de la Provenza, en total libertad, y que con su hermanastro Raoul ha tomado parte en algunas acciones de la Resistencia, le resulta dificil adaptarse a la austeridad de la vida londinense. Confusa e infeliz, deambula por el corazon bombardeado de Londres sin dejar de lado los principios aprendidos en el maquis frances. "El mundo, mi selva", la penultima novela de Rose Macaulay, publicada en 1950, transita por un mundo en ruinas y, desde la perspectiva de una joven desorientada, invadida por sentimientos ambiguos de culpa y de rechazo, nos transporta de la naturaleza salvaje de Colliure a un entorno urbano asilvestrado en el que Barbary se esfuerza por mantener su espiritu combativo. Pero ya no es tan facil distinguir al enemigo.

De l?autora d?«El món, la meva selva». «L?amor és una malaltia. Però té cura. I passa.» La jove Denham Dobie ha crescut entre les muntanyes d?Andorra en una llibertat tranquil·la i despreocupada, p

Portem la nostra selva alla on anem. La jove Barbary Deniston ha passat una infantesa amb la seva mare en l?entorn salvatge del sud de França durant la Segona Guerra Mundial, gaudint d?una llibertat nomes limitada pels perills que l?envoltaven per col·laborar amb la resistencia a l?ocupacio alemana. Ara que la guerra s?ha acabat, amb disset anys es enviada a Londres amb el seu pare, un advocat decidit a redreçar-la per convertir-la en una senyoreta disciplinada. Entre les runes de la ciutat bombardejada, la Barbary, sola, perduda i desconsolada, buscara la seva veu indomita. Publicada el 1950, El mon, la meva selva ens porta de la naturalesa salvatge de Cotlliure a la grisor austera de Londres i la bellesa de les Highlands, recorrent el mon interior d?una protagonista extraordinaria. Rose Macaulay va bolcar tot el seu enginy, la seva alegria i la seva melanconia en aquesta obra inoblidable.