Four Gardens Margery Sharp 1950 RARE 3rd Impression Hardcover Novel Humour Wit

Description: Cluny Brown Margery Sharp 1945 RARE 3rd Impression Hardcover Novel Humour Wit The perfect country house comedy of love and manners among the masters and the servants and the wandering European intellectual who is taking refuge from the gathering storm of World War II, which will change everything.Considered to be one of Margery Sharps best works which was made into a movie. “Cluny Brown,” her sparkling 1944 upstairs-downstairs social comedy of changing mid-century mores, set in the aristocratic Devon country house of Friars Carmel, became a classic Ernst Lubitsch comedy. In the film, Jennifer Jones played the heroine, in her maid’s cap and apron, and French actor Charles Boyer was Adam Belinski, the refugee Czech intellectual roue, on the Hollywood assumption that one European accent is as good as another. It’s a delightful movie, but it’s an even better book, shifting deftly from the concerns of Squire and Lady Carmel and Andrew the young heir, to the real center of the novel, Cluny, the plumber’s niece from London who is sent into “good service” as a parlourmaid right before the World War II because she “don’t seem to know her place,” and who turns out to be able to navigate a wider and more rapidly evolving world than anyone around her anticipates. Acceptable to good vintage condition with wear & discolouration as shown. Bindings are intact & tight. Illustrated original unclipped dust jacket with bright & clear cover artwork. Name has been cut from first page as shown. Shelf wear to the corners and edges. Photographs are of the actual book you will receive you will receive. The condition of recycled books is often subjective to individuals and occasionally small marks or issues may be missed. I provide plenty of quality photos because they say a picture paints a thousand words. Please check these photos carefully as they form part of this description and can describe this item far better than any blurb I might write. **I'm always happy to send more detailed photos and/or information - you just need to ask. Standard International shipping charges apply.Combined shipping is available.

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