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    <body><![CDATA[The title is an allusion to a poem of Keats.  What a skillfully written and wry novel this is.  Pym has created a little world, populating it with distinctive characters, each of whom is at the same time endearing and appalling, and then set them loose to carom off each other in unpredictable ways, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80752078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As with other Barbara Pym novels, this novel is both charming and clever. Leonora is a wondeful creation, although she is actually quite horrible in her determination to keep James near. In fact Leonora's personality is such, that throughout the novel she dominates - the three men, Humphrey, James a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53747878">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Among Pym's oeuvre this novel is my personal favorite with its richly drawn characters including Leonora Eyre, an attractive and elegant, but essentially selfish, middle-aged woman. She becomes friendly with antique dealer Humphrey Boyce and his nephew James. Both men are attracted to Leonora, but L...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43105972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Books by Pym are always concerned with the inner lives and details of people living quiet, retiring lives in England . As always, there are frustrated love-affairs, slightly uncomfortable dinner parties, and carefully examined friendships. Thirty years passed between Pym’s first novel and this one...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1015849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I happened upon this slim volume by accident the other day - and what a happy accident it turned out to be. Barbara Pym's &quot;The Sweet Dove Died&quot; is a novel of unrequited love - an unnatural love of an older woman for a much younger gay man. There are shades of the Tennessee Williams classic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77569886">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave Barbara Pym another chance, and I'm glad I did.  I enjoyed this book far more than &quot;Excellent Women&quot; - a great study of characters.  I may even read more Pym in the future.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pym is one of my all-time loves and I read this book every couple of years whenever I need a &quot;larf,&quot; as one of her genteel British Old Maids would certainly NOT say.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Leonora, with her need for comfort, adulation, and beautiful things, isn't a likely candidate for a Great Fictional Monster, but she is really quite horrible. A great deal of the pleasure of the book comes from wondering just how ruthless she can be in pursuit of her desires.<br/><br/>Rereading th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68422457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A reread.  Pleasant and witty, but I never quite felt sufficiently invested in the characters.  I did like the casual acceptance of homosexuality and the acknowledgment of different kinds of romantic and pseudo-romantic relationships.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't expect much from this little book when I read it as an undergrad.  If memory serves it was taught in a class entitled Modern British Novel and I'd never heard of Pym.  Well, it's been about 14 years now and some of the messages in this book still ring in my ears from time to time.  You must...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10014004">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic Pym: this book is tremendous. Heartbreaking and chuckle-inducing, it tells the story of Leonora, a 50ish elegant lady of leisure who befriends the similarly aged Humphrey, an antiques dealer, and his son James. Leonora develops a strange infatuation with James, but James doesn't like her nea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2840911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pym's books are literary comfort food; sweet, sad tales of real--ordinary--people. Impoverished gentlewomen, spinsters, repressed bachelors, pensioners and altar-society matrons; unfailingly soothing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite Pym books. Very humorous with touches of pathos like you get in Brookner. I think Pym is to be treasured for her human insight and compassion as well as her remarkable sense of humor. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OUCH! This was a painful/can't put it down read for me when I first came across it almost 30 years ago and it remains so.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about a unmarried older woman.  Insightful.  Good resolution in the story.  Enjoyed it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Barbara Pym is absolutely wonderful. Try any of her books. They are all short and sweet.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thoroughly delightful.  More substantive than cotton candy reading, but just as sweet.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best Barbara Pym novel I've read so far.]]></body>
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