Selina Hastings
1) The firebird
Author
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the Russian tale in which a young huntsman and his wise and magical horse are ordered by the king to undertake a series of increasingly difficult tasks.
Author
Physical Desc
xii, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the celebrated biographer of Nancy Mitford, and Evelyn Waugh: a full and fascinating biography--the very first--of the long-admired and universally-acclaimed English writer. When Sybille Bedford died in 2006 at the age of 94, she had written ten books, including four novels and a biography of Aldous Huxley. Her novels--the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker--all fictionalized her extraordinarily colorful, peripatetic life and dramatic...