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  • The Margery Sharp Collection Volume One

    Something Light, The Nutmeg Tree, The Flowering Thorn, and The Innocents

    by Margery Sharp ...
    Four charming, witty novels—including The Nutmeg Tree—from the "highly gifted" New York Times–bestselling author of Cluny Brown ( The New Yorker).A master of the twentieth-century comedy of manners , British author Margery Sharp has been praised as "one of the most gifted writers of comedy" ( Chicago Daily News) and "a wonderful entertainer" ( The New Yorker). Available for the first time in a ... Read more

    $38.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rescuers

    by Margery Sharp ...
    Illustrated by Garth Williams ...
    The classic children’s fantasy of two mice on a mission to save a Norwegian poet—and the inspiration for the beloved 1977 animated Disney movie!“Miss Sharp’s delicate and sophisticated humor is good fun for wise children from age 10 to 100.” —Los Angeles TimesMiss Bianca is a white mouse of great beauty and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassador’s son, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Four Gardens

    by Margery Sharp ...
    She announced herself, rather self-consciously, as Mrs. Henry Smith, and he replied that Mrs. Cornwallis was expecting her. To Caroline, following him through a wide shabby hall, the whole episode was beginning to feel like a nightmare. She was intensely conscious of herself-of her dress, her voice, the way she placed her feet. She felt like a cook-general going to be interviewed."Mrs. Henry Smith ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cluny Brown

    A Novel

    by Margery Sharp ...
    An unconventional parlor maid upends the lives of an aristocratic family in prewar EnglandCluny Brown refuses to know her place in society. Last week, she took herself to tea at the Ritz. Then she spent almost an entire day in bed eating oranges. So, to teach her discipline, her uncle, a plumber who has raised the orphaned girl since she was a baby, sends her into service as a parlor maid at one ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Something Light

    A Novel

    by Margery Sharp ...
    In 1950s London, a career girl decides it's high time she snared herself a husbandProfessional dog photographer Louisa Datchett is indiscriminately fond of men. And they take shocking advantage of her good nature when they need their problems listened to, socks washed, prescriptions filled, or employment found.But by the age of thirty, Louisa is tired of constantly being dispatched to the scene of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Britannia Mews

    A Novel

    by Margery Sharp ...
    A passionate heroine defies the English class system in this novel set in 1875 London—perfect for lovers of Edith Wharton and Downton Abbey.Around the corner from the elegant townhouses on Albion Place is Britannia Mews, a squalid neighborhood where servants and coachmen live. In 1875, it's no place for a young girl of fine breeding, but independent-minded Adelaide Culver is fascinated by what ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Harlequin House

    by Margery Sharp ...
    Lisbeth Campion was engaged, as usual, in resisting advances.Arthur Alfred Partridge, a middle-aged widower with a drab job and a frustrated sense of adventure, gets more than he bargained for when he encounters the irresistible Lisbeth Campion, whose troubles go well beyond her plethora of suitors. She's particularly concerned about her wastrel brother Ronny, fresh from six months in prison for ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gypsy in the Parlour

    A Novel

    by Margery Sharp ...
    In Victorian England, a glamorous, mysterious young woman overturns the lives of a traditional Devonshire farm family, in Margery Sharp's humorous, heartwarming New York Times–bestselling novelOn a farm in Devonshire, during a long hot summer, three women await the arrival of a fourth. The corseted, petticoated Sylvesters are no ordinary females. They are as fair-tempered as they are big and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rhododendron Pie

    by Margery Sharp ...
    It was indeed very difficult for the Laventie children not to be a little priggish.Ann Laventie, the youngest of three children in a long line of anti-social Sussex gentry, doesn't quite fit the mould of her intellectual, elegant, ultra-modern siblings Dick, an artist, and Elizabeth, a high-brow writer. Their father is scholarly and just wealthy enough to focus all his attention on reading and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Margery Sharp Collection Volume Two

    The Martha Novels

    by Margery Sharp ...
    Series series The Martha Novels
    This New York Times–bestselling trilogy follows an artistic girl as she grows up to become a painter—from the "highly gifted" author of Cluny Brown ( The New Yorker).A master of the twentieth-century comedy of manners , British author Margery Sharp has been praised as "one of the most gifted writers of comedy" ( Chicago Daily News) and "a wonderful entertainer" ( The New Yorker). In her New York ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fanfare for Tin Trumpets

    by Margery Sharp ...
    He also made himself a weekly allowance of five shillings for cigarettes, stationery, amusements, shoe-repairs, razor-blades, laundry, toothpaste, hospitality and 'bus fares; and having thus cut his coat to his cloth, wore it in great content.The only thing he had not allowed for (and this in an author must surely be considered strange) was Love.Upon the death of his distant, unaffectionate father ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Foolish Gentlewoman

    by Margery Sharp ...
    Sentimental, affectionate, uncritical, Mrs. Bracken so easily attached herself to persons, places, and even objects that after no more than two days in an hotel she had a favourite waiter, a favourite ornament, a favourite view. She had adored her husband, and was very fond of her French pepper-mill.World War II has ended and widowed Isabel Brocken, kind-hearted and generous if perhaps just a bit ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus