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  • By Bedroom Furniture « Comforters and Pillows on March 17, 2010 at 4: 36 pm

    Stylish Rack For All of You Wine Lovers 2010

  • With the help of friends and a lengthy sojourn at the Carmelite priory in Kent, Spark slowly recovered and wrote her first, semi-autobiographical novel, "The Comforters" (1957).

    "Muriel Spark: The Biography" by Martin Stannard, reviewed by Elaine Showalter Elaine Showalter 2010

  • With the help of friends and a lengthy sojourn at the Carmelite priory in Kent, Spark slowly recovered and wrote her first, semi-autobiographical novel, "The Comforters" (1957).

    "Muriel Spark: The Biography" by Martin Stannard, reviewed by Elaine Showalter 2010

  • More importantly, “The Seraph and the Zambesi” attracted the attention of Alan Maclean, the fiction editor of Macmillan, who commissioned her to write a novel and collection of short stories which subsequently became The Comforters and The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories.

    Muriel Spark. 2009

  • Dame Muriel Spark was nearly forty years of age when she completed The Comforters, her first novel.

    Muriel Spark. 2009

  • A reader picking up Muriel Spark's first novel, The Comforters, at the time of its publication in 1957, might have noticed that the author was thirty-nine years old, and have thought that he was encountering the work of a late developer.

    Who Will Carry Us? Peter Landau 2009

  • But her earlier novels, The Comforters, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and most of all The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, have a minimalist sinewy elegance enough to excuse any subsequent folies des grandeurs.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Tim Stretton 2007

  • But her earlier novels, The Comforters, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and most of all The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, have a minimalist sinewy elegance enough to excuse any subsequent folies des grandeurs.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2007

  • Christine Qunta promotes pseudoscience and that as a director on its board, she bears responsibility for the Aids profiteering of Comforters

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • He sends his people … Phone calls … Comforters and friends, a meal, a song, a certain situation, so you see there is peace and his name is JESUS … … … ..

    This I Believe Christina 2005

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