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 Macaulay\"s wittiest social satire....

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....

This story describes the experiences of a group of people on a trip to Turkey. Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women through the encouragement of a wider use of the bathing hat, whilst Laurie\"s only object is pleasure....

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From the publication of Noam Chomsky\"s revolutionary Syntactic Structures in 1957, to the counter-revolutions that followed, linguistics has seen many fashions over the years....

From the publication of Noam Chomsky\"s revolutionary Syntactic Structures in 1957, to the counter-revolutions that followed, linguistics has seen many fashions over the years....

1921 novel by Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, the English novelist. She received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Towers of Trebizond in 1956. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biography and travel....