Bedford, Sybille 1911-2006

Aldous Huxley : a biography by Sybille Bedford ( Book )
42 editions published between 1973 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 2,388 libraries worldwide
Interpretation of the life and works of the 20th-century English novelis, by an intimate friend and fellow novelist.

A legacy by Sybille Bedford ( Book )
56 editions published between 1956 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 957 libraries worldwide
The story of three families, one Jewish and two Catholic, and how their lives become entangled in the Kaiser's Germany.

A favourite of the gods by Sybille Bedford ( Book )
29 editions published between 1963 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 833 libraries worldwide
A brilliant picture of a rich, aristocratic Italian-American marriage and its consequences, down to the second generation.

Jigsaw : an unsentimental education : a biographical novel by Sybille Bedford ( Book )
32 editions published between 1989 and 2006 in 5 languages and held by 823 libraries worldwide
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Sybille Bedford's latest novel walks the borderline between autobiography and fiction. It picks up where A Legacy leaves off, leading us from the Kaiser's Germany into the wider Europe of the 1920s and the limbo between world wars. The narrator, Billi, tells the story of her apprenticeship to life, and of her many teachers: her father, a pleasure-loving German baron; her brilliant, beautiful, erratic English mother; and later, on the Mediterranean coast of France, the Huxleys, Aldous and Maria.

Quicksands : a memoir by Sybille Bedford ( Book )
26 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and held by 707 libraries worldwide

A visit to Don Otavio : a traveller's tale from Mexico by Sybille Bedford ( Book )
42 editions published between 1953 and 2004 in 5 languages and held by 700 libraries worldwide
This affectionate study of the Mexican temper is "one of the most charming travel books ever written."--The Atlantic Monthly Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. "I had a great longing to move," she said, "to hear another language, eat new food, to be in a country with a long nasty history in the past and as little present history as possible." And so she set out for Mexico--and, incidentally, to write what Bruce Chatwin called the best travel book of the twentieth century, "a book o.

The trial of Dr. Adams by Sybille Bedford ( Book )
10 editions published between 1959 and 1962 in English and held by 697 libraries worldwide

The faces of justice : a traveller's report by Sybille Bedford ( Book )
8 editions published between 1961 and 1966 in English and held by 675 libraries worldwide

A compass error by Sybille Bedford ( Book )
20 editions published between 1968 and 2001 in 4 languages and held by 640 libraries worldwide
Flavia, nu midaldrende, ser tilbage: I 1920'erne, da hun var bosat i et mondænt Riviera-miljø, var hun fuld af forventninger til fremtiden: til et universitetsstudium i Oxford og til sit første kærlighedsforhold.

As it was : pleasures, landscapes and justice by Sybille Bedford ( Book )
9 editions published between 1990 and 1992 in English and held by 225 libraries worldwide