The Barbara Pym Collection Volume One

Three comedies of manners set in postwar England by the New York Times –bestselling author of Excellent Women and “the rarest of treasures” (Anne Tyler).   Often characterized as the twentieth-century literary heiress to Jane Austen, and heralded by Phillip Larkin as “the most underrated novelist of the century,” Barbara Pym explored female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life—not the least of which, unrequited love—with sharp wit and deep compassion for her chara