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A Favourite of the Gods 

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Sybille BedfordA Favourite of the Gods (1963)
A novel by Sybille Bedford

 
"Vibrant with an awareness of people and their manners and the countries that shape them."-Sylvia Brownrigg.

Henry James's theme of the New World (na&#239;ve, upright, puritanical) confronting the Old (steeped in sophisticated and unscrupulous charm) is here explored by a novelist who has witnessed two world wars. Her protagonist is Constanza, a beautiful Italian-American pagan born to privilege and happiness-a seeming "favourite of the gods." But in the years of her maturity she becomes aware of what she lacks-a purpose and a part. Who am I, she asks, and what is it I can do? "This," writes Bedford, "is not a poor little rich girl's plaint. It is the quest that lurks within every human creature fortunate to lift its head above the daily grind."

"Bedford's genius is for writing about people. [Her] excellence is immortal, her career one of great distinction in literature."-Peter Levi.

 
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January 1964 : Hardback
Title: A Favourite of the Gods
Author(s): Sybille Bedford
Publisher: Popular Library
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January 1963 : Hardback
Title: A Favourite of the Gods
Author(s): Sybille Bedford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
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Paperback Editions

March 2011 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1907970029Title: A Favourite of the Gods
Author(s): Sybille Bedford
ISBN: 1-907970-02-9 / 9781907970023 (UK edition)
Publisher: Daunt Books
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September 2001 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1582431582Title: A Favorite of the Gods
Author(s): Sybille Bedford
ISBN: 1-58243-158-2 / 9781582431581 (USA edition)
Publisher: Counterpoint
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April 2000 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0141181982Title: A Favourite of the Gods (Penguin Modern Classics)
Author(s): Sybille Bedford
ISBN: 0-14-118198-2 / 978-0-14-118198-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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January 1991 : Paperback
Title: A FAVOURITE OF THE GODS
Author(s): SYBILLE BEDFORD
Publisher: VIRAGO
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April 1984 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: A Favourite of the Gods
Author(s): Sybille Bedford
ISBN: 0-525-48097-8 / 978-0-525-48097-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Plume
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February 1984 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0860683877Title: A Favourite of the Gods (Virago modern classics)
Author(s): Sybille Bedford
ISBN: 0-86068-387-7 / 978-0-86068-387-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
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1980 : Paperback
Title: A Favourite of the Gods
Author(s): Sybille Bedford
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
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April 1975 : Paperback
Title: Favourite of the Gods
Author(s): Sybille Bedford
ISBN: 0-00-613496-3 / 978-0-00-613496-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services
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January 1965 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: A Favourite of the Gods
Author(s): Sybille Bedford
Publisher: Fontana
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January 1964 : Paperback
Title: A Favourite of the Gods
Author(s): Sybille Bedford
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January 1963 : Paperback
Title: A Favourite Of The Gods.
Author(s): Sybille. Bedford
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January 1965 : Unknown
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1963 : Unknown
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