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Lolly Willowes (New York Review Books (Paperback) Book 5)

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Sylvia Townsend Warner・・Ended

Updated: June 25, 2025

Content length: 120 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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Synopsis

THE WITCHY FEMINIST CLASSIC: The “beautifully written . . . extraordinary” story of an English spinster who rejects the life society has given her—and becomes a witch instead (Helen McDonald, New York Times Book Review). “Witty, eerie, tender.” —John Updike In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster’s struggle to break away from her controlling family—a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange. Warner is one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of 20th-century literature, a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that anticipates the fantastic flights of such contemporaries as Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.

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🔥Editors’ Pick — Why It Hooks You

A buttoned-up “maiden aunt” flees London for the Chiltern Hills, strikes a pact with the Devil—“the Loving Huntsman”—and discovers witchcraft as a radical form of self-possession. Lolly Willowes blends sly comedy with a proto-feminist bite, turning village woods and sabbaths into a rebuke to family duty and social piety. It’s brisk, subversive, and startlingly modern for a 1926 classic—no wonder it’s long been hailed as a quiet call to freedom.