{"product_id":"three-score-and-ten-volume-29-9781504092890","title":"Three Score and Ten: Volume 29","description":"\u003cb\u003eBarsetshire gathers to celebrate a milestone birthday at the Old Bank House in this conclusion to the much-loved, long-running series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA home is saved from destruction, a budding romance takes steps toward the altar, a doctor experiences the return of a former love--and the fine people of Barsetshire make plans for a festive extravaganza to mark Mrs. Morland's seventieth birthday . . . \"Triumphantly completed\" by Angela Thirkell's close friend C. A. Lejeune after Thirkell's death, \u003ci\u003eThree Score and Ten\u003c\/i\u003e features a host of new and old friends from the author's acclaimed series spanning decades of English country life (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her writing celebrates the solid parochial English virtues of stiff-upper-lippery, good-sportingness, dislike of fuss, and low-key irony. . . . Light, witty, easygoing books.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Where Trollope would have been content to arouse a chuckle, [Thirkell] is constantly provoking us to hilarious laughter. . . . To read her is to get the feeling of knowing Barsetshire folk as well as if one had been born and bred in the county.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngela Thirkell (1890-1961) was a British author whose ability to produce one book a year, every year, and \u003ci\u003eset \u003c\/i\u003ein that year blurred the lines between novelist and social historian. Like so many of the writers that she admired--Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Eliot--Thirkell shared their X-ray vision: an unmatched ability to assess the hypocrisies, desires, and prejudices of her characters and, better still, play them for laughs. Her biggest literary project, the Barsetshire Chronicles, consists of twenty-nine novels, each acting as another slice of English country life; a utopian vision of bucolic countryside, grand manors, and village f?tes.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183654633746,"sku":"9781504092890","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ff54c4d9-de78-4858-9269-26f939b04222.jpg?v=1744474995","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/three-score-and-ten-volume-29-9781504092890","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}