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by Elizabeth Taylor; Introduction by Margaret Drabble; Selected by Margaret Drabble


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Elizabeth Taylor (1912–1975) was an English short-story writer and novelist. Her first novel, At Mrs. Lippincote’s, was published in 1945. She would go on to publish eleven more novels, including Angel and A Game of Hide and Seek (both available from NYRB Classics), four collections of short stories (many of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and other magazines), and a children’s book, Mossy Trotter.
 
Margaret Drabble is an English biographer and critic, and the author of seventeen novels, including A Summer Bird Cage, The Millstone, and, most recently, The Sea Lady. A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories appeared in 2011. In 2006 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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  • Title You'll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor
  • Author Elizabeth Taylor; Introduction by Margaret Drabble; Selected by Margaret Drabble
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review of Books
  • Date 2014-09-16
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781590177273 / 1590177274
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5 x 1 in (20.07 x 12.70 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014002275
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“The short story [is] a form in which Taylor, a gimlet-eyed miniaturist, fully exploited her talents.” —Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic
 
“Taylor’s stories, like her novels, are also filled with interesting and original ideas about life that are presented with almost no emphasis, ideas that other novelists would practically underscore and print in bold.” —Financial Times
 
“In all the stories there is a peculiarly satisfying mixture of wit and generosity. Their human depth is such that they can be read again and again.” —Margaret Drabble
 
“Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning point in one’s own experience.” —Elizabeth Bowen
 
“There is a deceptive smoothness in her tone, or tone of voice, as in that of Evelyn Waugh; not a far-fetched comparison, for in the work of both writers the funny and the appalling lie side by side in close amity.” —Kingsley Amis

Citations

  • Booklist, 09/01/2014, Page 41
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2014, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/28/2014, Page 0

About the author

Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) was born into a middle-class family in Berkshire, England. She held a variety of positions, including librarian and governess, before marrying a businessman in 1936. Nine years later, her first novel, At Mrs. Lippincote's, appeared. She would go on to publish eleven more novels, including Angel and A Game of Hide and Seek (both available as NYRB Classics), four collections of short stories (many of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and other magazines), and a children's book, Mossy Trotter, while living with her husband and two children in Buckingham­shire. Long championed by Ivy Compton-Burnett, Barbara Pym, Robert Liddell, Kingsley Amis, and Elizabeth Jane Howard, Taylor's novels and stories have been the basis for a number of films, including Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), starring Joan Plowright, and Franois Ozon's Angel (2007).

Margaret Drabble is the author of eighteen novels, including The Needle's Eye, The Peppered Moth, The Seven Sisters, The Sea Lady, and most recently, The Pure Gold Baby. Among her works of nonfiction are biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson. She has edited the fifth and sixth editions of the Oxford Companion to World Literature and was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.

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