A Legacy
Author | Sybille Bedford |
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Cover artist | Philip Gough |
Language | English |
Published | 1956 |
Media type | |
Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 0141188057 |
A Legacy is a semi-autobiographical novel by Sybille Bedford first published in 1956. It depicts a fictionalized version of the marriage of her parents and the troublesome relations of their two families. Their familial tumults and tragedies are set in the newly unified Germany. The book explores Prussian militarism in the years approaching the First World War. Many writers, including Victoria Glendinning and Roger Kimball, cite it as evidence of Bedford's underrated brilliance.[1][2]
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- ^ Glendinning, Victoria (13 March 2011). "Sybille Bedford: Credit where it's long overdue". The Observer. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ^ Kimball, Roger (April 1994). "Without Rancour: Sybille Bedford's Achievement". The New Criterion. 12 (8): 11. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
Categories:
- 1956 British novels
- Novels set in Germany
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson books
- British novels adapted into television shows
- 1950s novel stubs