A classic of twentieth-century English literature. A refined, elegant, and endlessly ironic parody of the “provincial” British novel—reading it you can draw plenty of amusing parallels with the works of Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy, and other great prose writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Religious snobs and young girls (and not-so-young ones) torn by secret passions… Country heartthrobs and eccentric busybodies… An outstanding collection of colorful and ridiculous characters, unimaginable situations, and incredible dialogues that will leave no true admirer of English humor indifferent!