The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski

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The episode also features Andy’s report back from the summit of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain and John excavates an old Puffin anthology called Authors’ Choice which contains ‘The Tower’ (1955), another deeply unsettling story by Marghanita Laski story, chosen and introduced by Alan Garner. Marghanita Laski was born in 1915 to a family of Jewish intellectuals in Manchester Harold Laski, the socialist thinker, was her uncle. and Other Stories and this year’s wonderful novel of mendacious lexicography, The Liar’s Dictionary. : The Victorian Chaise-longue (9780953478040) by Laski Marghanita and a great selection of similar New. Joining Andy and John is the novelist Eley Williams, author of the awarding winning Attrib. James (Foreword) 3.60 1,207 ratings194 reviews The novel is about a young married woman who lies down on a chaise-longue and wakes to find herself imprisoned in the body of her alter ego ninety years before. She also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories, and contributed about 250,000 additions to the Oxford English Dictionary. Published in 1953, the book describes the experience of an. Marghanita Laski (24 October 1915 6 February 1988) was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist. Of all the books in the Persephone catalogue this is the one Ive been looking. The Victorian Chaise-longue (1953) is a terrifying short novel by the writer, broadcaster and lexicographer Marghanita Laski. The Victorian Chaise-Longue Marghanita Laski, P.D. The Victorian Chaise-Longue (1953) is a novella by the English novelist Marghanita Laski. Review: The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski.

The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski