Sybille Bedford was born in 1911 in Charlottenburg, Germany, the daughter of a German father and an English mother. She grew up in Italy, France and England. The account of her travels in Mexico A Visit to Don Otavio was her first published book in 1953, and she followed it with three novels, A Legacy (1956), A Favourite of the Gods (1963) and A Compass Error (1968). Her semi-autobiographical novel, Jigsaw, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989. Her memoir, Quicksands, was published in 2005. Sybille Bedford died in 2006.
17 Ebooks by Sybille Bedford
Sybille Bedford: Faces of Justice
'Going to law courts is a good education for a novelist. It provides you with the most extravagant material, and it teaches the near impossibility of reaching the truth.'Sybille Bedford, …
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Sybille Bedford: Jigsaw
This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her …
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Sybille Bedford: A Favourite of the Gods
‘One of Britain’s most stylish and accomplished writers.’ — Telegraph One autumn in the late nineteen-twenties for no particular reason at all, as it would seem, we began to live in France.Constanza …
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Sybille Bedford: A Compass Error
‘A powerful and merciless book – a classic coming-of-age novel’ — Hilary Mantel’Wide windows, not yet shuttered at that hour, opened from the circular white-washed room on slopes of olives and the …
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Sybille Bedford: Pleasures and Landscapes
‘Bedford’s ability to recreate landscape is matched only by her appetite for mouth-watering descriptions of exotic food . . . She cannot write a dull page.’ — Financial Times
‘The Naples boat was …
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Sybille Bedford: Trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
‘One of Britain’s most stylish and accomplished writers.’ — Telegraph When Penguin released a new, unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1960 they were charged with the …
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Sybille Bedford: Quicksands
Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated – in fiction and non-fiction – what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this …
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Sybille Bedford: Legacy
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds – the wealthy …
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Sybille Bedford: Zu Besuch bei Don Otavio
Das erste Werk von Sybille Bedford: ein bedeutendes und beglückendes Reisebuch
Sybille Bedford will noch etwas mehr von der Neuen Welt sehen, bevor sie nach Kriegsende die Rückkehr in die Alte Welt …
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Sybille Bedford: Ein Liebling der Götter
Einer der berühmtesten europäischen Gesellschaftsromane des 20. Jahrhunderts Sybille Bedford entführt uns mit diesem Roman in die Welt der Aristokratie: mit Eleganz und Ironie erzählt sie die Geschic …
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Sybille Bedford: Treibsand
Der Abschluss des leuchtenden Lebenswerkes von Sibylle Bedford Die Erinnerungen der Kosmopolitin, die in Rom ebenso zu Hause war wie in Paris, London oder an der Côte d’Azur, die Literatur, Malerei u …
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Sybille Bedford: Ein trügerischer Sommer
Elegant und scharfzüngig – Sybille Bedford nimmt die mondäne Gesellschaft Ende der Zwanzigerjahre in Europa aufs Korn und zeigt ganz nebenbei, wie tief die Abgründe der Verführbarkeit sein können. En …
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Sybille Bedford: Rückkehr nach Sanary
Sibylle Bedford über ihr Leben: »Eine der charmantesten Autobiografien des 20. Jahrhunderts.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Ein exzentrischer Vater, der in einem Schloss mittelalterliche Kunstschätz …
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