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Sarah Gainham


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
October 01, 1915

Died
November 24, 1999


Rachel Stainer was a much-admired foreign correspondent for the "Spectator" magazine reporting from Vienna, Berlin, Bonn and Trieste. She wrote novels under the pseudonym Sarah Gainham most notably her 1967 novel "Night Falls on the City," the first of a trilogy about life in Vienna under Nazi rule. ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 477 ratings · 73 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors
Night Falls on the City
4.02 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 1967 — 31 editions
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A Place in the Country
4.10 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1969 — 14 editions
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Private Worlds
3.98 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1971 — 7 editions
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The stone roses
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions
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The Habsburg twilight: Tale...
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions
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To the Opera Ball
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 5 editions
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Silent Hostage
2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions
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Time Right Deadly
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1956 — 4 editions
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Tiger, Life
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Maculan's daughter
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1974 — 4 editions
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Series by Sarah Gainham

Night Falls on the City A Place in the Country Private Worlds
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“Sometimes I have a terrible suspicion that the whole tragedy, from first to last, has no meaning.”
― Sarah Gainham, Private Worlds
tags: vienna
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“These other peoples might hate Vienna or think they did, but Vienna could not of its intrinsic being hate them for she was made up of them.”
― Sarah Gainham, Night Falls on the City
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