The Gifts of War (Penguin Mini Modern Classics)
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'Her feelings for the child redeemed her from bitterness, and shed some light on the dark industrial terraces and the waste lands of the city's rubble.'
One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Margaret Drabble is an unmatched observer of postwar English lives, portraying social change, sexual liberation, landscape, class and the messy complications of human relationships with intricacy and honesty. In these two stories of lives colliding, a mother buying a birthday gift has her dreams destroyed, and a honeymoon leads to an unexpected epiphany.
This book contains The Gifts of War and Hassan's Tower.
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Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and went to the Mount School, York; a Quaker boarding school. She won a major scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English. She was awarded the CBE in 1980. She has written several novels, including A Summer Bird-Cage (1963); The Millstone (1965), filmed as A Touch of Love in 1969; The Realms of Gold (1975); The Ice Age (1977); The Radiant Way (1987); The Witch of Exmoor (1996), The Peppered Moth (2001), and several others. She has also published many articles and critical works. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London.
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As part of Penguin's mini modern classics collection, Margret Drabble's The Gifts of War is a svelte collection of two short stories: The Gifts of War and Hassan's tower.
The Gifts of War tells of a brief journey through the barren wasteland of the human condition. Focusing on the how survival instinct demands we cling to whatever meaning we can find in the chaotic seas of humanity, the story revolves thematically around violence, and its place in the heart of our personal, social, and educational dimensions.
Hasan's Tower is a tale about alienation and its effects on isolating people and debasing the shared context of human relationships. It is also a tale about joy and how the simplest pleasures can bridge the fearful chasm that can form between strangers.
Drabble writes sharply and simply, and the format of two short stories belies a depth of meaning that is missing from many a larger tome, humbly demonstrating the richness of being that we all experience in our everyday lives.
The Gifts of War tells of a brief journey through the barren wasteland of the human condition. Focusing on the how survival instinct demands we cling to whatever meaning we can find in the chaotic seas of humanity, the story revolves thematically around violence, and its place in the heart of our personal, social, and educational dimensions.
Hasan's Tower is a tale about alienation and its effects on isolating people and debasing the shared context of human relationships. It is also a tale about joy and how the simplest pleasures can bridge the fearful chasm that can form between strangers.
Drabble writes sharply and simply, and the format of two short stories belies a depth of meaning that is missing from many a larger tome, humbly demonstrating the richness of being that we all experience in our everyday lives.
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