{"product_id":"sybille-bedford-a-legacy-2005-paperback","title":"Sybille Bedford: A Legacy [2005] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eSybille Bedford's first novel, \u003cem\u003eA Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e is a savage indictment of the brutality and anti-Semitism spawned in German officer-cadet schools, published with an introduction by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In \u003cem\u003eA Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds - the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural Baden. Portrayed with exquisite wit and acute observation, their personal upheavals and tragedies are set against the menacing backdrop of a newly unified Germany combined with Prussian militarism in the decades before the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSybille Bedford (1911-2006) was born in Berlin, Germany and educated privately in England, Italy and France. Described by Julia Neuberger as 'the finest woman writer of the 20th century', she is the author of \u003cem\u003eA Favourite of the Gods\u003c\/em\u003e (1963), \u003cem\u003eJigsaw\u003c\/em\u003e (1989) and \u003cem\u003eA Compass Error\u003c\/em\u003e (1968). She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of PEN. She was awarded the OBE in 1981.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003cem\u003eA Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e, you might like L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the most dazzling practitioners of English prose'\u003cbr\u003e- Bruce Chatwin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A joy ... the social and political milieu of a vanished age is brilliantly realised'\u003cbr\u003e- Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Cool, witty, elegant'\u003cbr\u003e- Evelyn Waugh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'At once historical novel and study of character, a collection of brilliantly objective portraits'\u003cbr\u003e- Aldous Huxley\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bedford, Sybille","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50633162326355,"sku":"9780141188058","price":14.3,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50633162359123,"sku":"XV80141188058","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/bedford-sybille-sybille-bedford-a-legacy-2005-paperback-1151183871.jpg?v=1742770894","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/sybille-bedford-a-legacy-2005-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}