Tag: Virago Modern Classics

• Virago Ventures

  Viragos  are addictive. I’m talking (mainly) about the old green-spined VMCs with reproductions of paintings on the front covers. They are so alluring I cannot resist them, and wherever I go I end up scouring second-hand book stores and charity shops in search of treasures. Fortunately, the Man of the House is never averse to…

  chrisharding53

  June 3, 2016

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• The Land of Green Ginger

  Another Virago for LibrayThing’s All Virago All Augustchallenge. And I think this one will do nicely for the What’s in a Name challenge over at The Worm Hole – it’s my entry for a book with the letters ‘ing’ in the title. And it fits the bill for Yorkshire, for Reading England 2015 (which you…

  chrisharding53

  August 11, 2015

  20th century women’s fiction, All Virago All Augusst book challenge, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, The Land of Green Ginger, Virago Modern Classics, Winfred Hotlby

• Their Eyes Were Watching God

  There I was, sitting on the floor in the backroom of the Oxfam shop, sorting and pricing books, when I came across a well-thumbed copy of Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. I’d never come across the author before, but it was a Virago Modern Classic, with an eye-catching painting on the…

  chrisharding53

  August 8, 2012

  http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Modern Classics, Zora Neale Hurston

• The Provincial Lady in a Floral Cover

  I picked this up in the Oxfam shop (again), but I think it looks like abook on needlework, or a notebook,or drawliners, or writing paper. I started reading EM Delafield’s The Diary of a Provincial Lady online at Project Gutenberg Australia, which has all kinds of books unavailable on the British site, but they can’t…

  chrisharding53

  July 5, 2012

  book cover, diary, EM Delafield, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Virago Modern Classics