Lolly Willowes

by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Coralie Bickford-Smith (Artist)

Overview

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

A Penguin Classics Hardcover

Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780241573785
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/12/2024
Series:	Little Clothbound Classics
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	261,783
Product dimensions:	4.75(w) x 6.56(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) grew up in rural Devonshire before moving to London and writing her debut novel, Lolly Willowes (1926). With her partner, Valentine Ackland, she was active in the Communist Party and served in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. Her novels include Mr. Fortune’s Maggot, The True Heart, Summer Will Show, After the Death of Don Juan, The Corner That Held Them, and The Flint Anchor.

Coralie Bickford-Smith (cover illustrator) is an award-winning designer at Penguin Books, where she has created several highly acclaimed series designs. She studied typography at Reading University and lives in London.

Editorial Reviews

Sylvia Townsend Warner had a connoisseur's eye for the bogus, and a hatred of the assumptions of privilege. Her heart was with the hunted, always...Along with an extraordinary fancy she had a deep understanding of human behavior, so that nothing, no feeling, seemed to lie beyond the reach of her imagination...She had the true novelist's awareness of the wheel (the image is hers) turning and turning in 'the bright implacable river' of life.

William Maxwell

Lolly Willowes is a morality fable, fully realized but sparely told...It remains a novel as original in its conception as it is subtle and refined in its artistry.

Times Literary Supplement

Lolly Willowes is a treasure; profound, crisp and brilliant, an allegory to enchant even the reader with little patience for allegory, a fantasy firmly and illuminatingly located in the very dailiness of life...

Boston Sunday Globe