Godden, Rumer 1907-1998

Overview

Works:	521 works in 2,316 publications in 8 languages and 79,894 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Domestic fiction Juvenile works Biography Historical fiction Pastoral fiction Poetry History Drama Religious fiction
Roles:	Translator, Author of introduction, Editor, Bibliographic antecedent, Scenarist, Lyricist, Compiler, Other
Classifications:	PR6013.O2, 823.912

Publication Timeline

1930 |

|2020

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Publications about Rumer Godden

Publications by Rumer Godden

Publications by Rumer Godden, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Rumer Godden

Colonial strangers women writing the end of the British empire by Phyllis Lassner ( )
A time to dance, no time to weep by Rumer Godden ( Book )
Black narcissus by Michael Powell ( Visual )
Rumer Godden international and intermodern storyteller by Lucy Le-Guilcher ( )
A house with four rooms by Rumer Godden ( Book )

Rumer Godden by Hassell A Simpson ( Book )
Rumer Godden : a storyteller's life by Anne Chisholm ( Book )
Rumer Godden revisited by Lynne Meryl Rosenthal ( Book )
Rumer Godden a storyteller's life by Anne Chisholm ( Recording )
The River by Jean Renoir ( Visual )
A time to dance, no time to weep by Rumer Godden ( Recording )
(Margaret) Rumer Godden (1907-1998) ( )
Two under the Indian sun by Jon Godden ( Recording )
A house with four rooms by Rumer Godden ( Recording )
Rumer Godden's Indian novels by Laura May Waltz ( Book )
Narcisse noir : roman by Rumer Godden ( Book )
Notes on Rumer Godden's An episode of sparrows ( Book )
Bābar Urdu drama ( Visual )
Dictionary of literary biography. British children's writers since 1960 ( Book )
Authors clippings : "GROUP" folder by Monterey Public Library ( )

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Most widely held works by Rumer Godden

In this house of Brede by Rumer Godden ( Book )
44 editions published between 1969 and 2013 in English and held by 2,798 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set in England, this is a novel about a successful career woman in her forties who renounces the world to enter Brede monastery, a cloistered order of English Benedictine nuns and what happens to her thereafter

The story of Holly & Ivy by Rumer Godden ( Book )
47 editions published between 1900 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 2,770 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Orphaned Ivy finds her Christmas wish fulfilled with the help of a lonely couple and a doll named Holly

An episode of sparrows, a novel by Rumer Godden ( Book )
60 editions published between 1955 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,586 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of how two London slum children made a garden from a packet of cornflower seeds and how it changed the lives of rich and poor

The battle of the Villa Fiorita by Rumer Godden ( Book )
43 editions published between 1963 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,312 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When their mother runs off with another man, young Caddie and Hugh journey from London to Italy to bring their mother home

Two under the Indian sun by Jon Godden ( Book )
39 editions published between 1966 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Godden sisters "have written of five years in their early lives when they were sent back to India to escape the bombs of W.W.I. They recall their lives in the village and its environs in what is now East Pakistan." Library J

The dolls' house by Rumer Godden ( Book )
67 editions published between 1947 and 2013 in English and held by 2,070 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The activities, sorrows, and joys of a family of dolls living in an old doll house are related from the dolls' point of view

The greengage summer, a novel by Rumer Godden ( Book )
65 editions published between 1957 and 2013 in English and held by 2,058 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Five naive English children, thrown on their own in a French inn, find themselves surrounded by mysterious and violent activities

China Court: the hours of a country house; a novel by Rumer Godden ( Book )
39 editions published between 1960 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,036 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Modern love story, set in Cornwall and interwoven with the living past of five generations of the Quin family, and illustrative of life - as Chaucer says - as a "thinne subtil knittinge of thinges". A medieval book of hours plays a part in the plot

The peacock spring by Rumer Godden ( Book )
41 editions published between 1975 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,964 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel about two English school girls, who are summoned from England to New Delhi by their diplomat father. Una, the older sister, meets a young man, and a secret love develops

The river by Rumer Godden ( Book )
61 editions published between 1946 and 2014 in English and held by 1,730 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A girl in India growing into womanhood experiences the changes which the passage of time brings--birth and death, blindness and cruelty, love, retribution

Kingfishers catch fire : a novel by Rumer Godden ( Book )
52 editions published between 1953 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,715 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An English widow gets into trouble when she attempts to westernize natives in the vale of Kashmir

Five for sorrow, ten for joy by Rumer Godden ( Book )
19 editions published between 1979 and 2013 in English and held by 1,698 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this new novel, the author returns to the theme of the religious life, and now moves to the world of the French Dominican Sisters of Béthanie, who work among the whores, drug addicts, and vagrants of the great cities. The heroine is Lise, an English girl who, after the liberation of Paris, falls into bad company and, after a period in one of Paris's smartest brothels, becomes a successful madam -- La Balafrée, the Scarred One

Prayers from the ark by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold ( Book )
14 editions published between 1962 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,690 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An illustrated collection of poems, each a prayer by one of the animals in Noah's ark

The diddakoi by Rumer Godden ( Book )
39 editions published between 1972 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 1,675 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Kizzy Lovell, a 7-year old gypsy, wanted no part of school because of the derisive cries of her schoolmates. When her Great-Great-Gran died, Kizzy would have been wholly alone except for Admiral Twist and Miss Brooke. Learning how to accept their kindness proves as great a trial as the persistent cruelties of her schoolgirl peers, and the learning is not all on Kizzy's side

Black narcissus by Rumer Godden ( Book )
73 editions published between 1939 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,639 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Anglican Sisters are sent to a remote community in the Himalayas to establish a convent

Thursday's children by Rumer Godden ( Book )
18 editions published between 1984 and 2013 in English and held by 1,600 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
As he tags along to his spoiled sister's ballet classes, Doone discovers and develops his own rare and special talents

Coromandel sea change by Rumer Godden ( Book )
27 editions published between 1991 and 2013 in English and held by 1,442 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Coromandel coast of southern India seems the ideal place for Mary and Blaise's honeymoon, but before long Mary begins to feel detached from her new husband and powerfully attracted to Krishnan, a local politician now in mortal danger

The mousewife by Rumer Godden ( Book )
25 editions published between 1951 and 2009 in English and Japanese and held by 1,376 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A house mouse who thinks there must be more to life than looking for food and caring for her family befriends a lonely, caged dove

The dark horse by Rumer Godden ( Book )
20 editions published between 1981 and 2014 in English and held by 1,313 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden ( Book )
18 editions published between 1967 and 2009 in English and held by 1,285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A boy's efforts to create an icon to please the family's new maid helps him to make new friends and discover an artistic talent

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