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As a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie. Mrs. Miniver's adventures have charmed millions. This edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the book's orginal publication in the U.S., features a new introduction by Greer Garson, who won the Academy Award as best actress... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
First Sentence edit
It was lovely, thought Mrs. Miniver, nodding goodbye to the flower-woman and carrying her big sheaf of chrysanthemums down the street with a kind of ceremonious joy, as though it were a cornucopia; it was lovely, this settling down again, this tidying away of the summer into its box, this taking up of the thread of one's life where the holidays (irrelevant interlude) had made one drop it.
Table of Contents edit
Mrs. Miniver Comes Home
The New Car
Guy Fawkes' Day
The Eve of the Shoot
Christmas Shopping
Three Stockings
The New Engagement Book
The Last Day of the Holidays
In Search of a Charwoman
The First Day of Spring
On Hampstead Heath
A Country House Visit
Mrs. Downce
Married Couples
A Drive to Scotland
The Twelfth of August
At the Games
The Autumn Flit
Gas Masks
"Back to Normal"
Mrs. Miniver Makes a List
Peace-in-War
A Moonless Week
Some Points of View
Time-Lag Tragedies
Badger and the Echidna
A Wild Day
New Year's Eve
Choosing a Doll
At the Dentist's
A Pocketful of Pebbles
Brambles and Apple-Trees
The Khelim Rug
On the River
Left and Right
"Doing a Mole"
The New Dimension
London in August
Back from Abroad
At the Hop-Picking
"From Needing Danger"
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1940. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Kitty Foyle, and followed by For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jan Struther (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.912
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