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Sybille Bedford


Born
in Charlottenburg, Germany
March 16, 1911

Died
February 17, 2006

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Travel


Sybille Bedford, OBE (16 March 1911 – 17 February 2006) was a German-born English writer. Many of her works are partly autobiographical. Julia Neuberger proclaimed her "the finest woman writer of the 20th century" while Bruce Chatwin saw her as "one of the most dazzling practitioners of modern English prose.

Works

The Sudden View: a Mexican Journey - 1953 - (republished as A Visit to Don Otavio: a Traveller's Tale from Mexico, a travelogue)
A Legacy: A Novel - 1956 - her first novel, a work inspired by the early life of the author's father, which focuses on the brutality and anti-Semitism in the cadet schools of the German officer class.
The Best We Can Do: (The Trial of Dr Adams) - 1958 - an account of the murder trial of suspected serial kill ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.84 · 3,490 ratings · 540 reviews · 48 distinct works • Similar authors
A Legacy
3.65 avg rating — 941 ratings — published 1956 — 57 editions
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Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Ed...
4.12 avg rating — 566 ratings — published 1989 — 34 editions
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A Visit to Don Otavio
3.92 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 1953 — 41 editions
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A Favourite of the Gods
3.76 avg rating — 409 ratings — published 1963 — 31 editions
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A Compass Error
3.58 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1968 — 7 editions
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The Trial of Lady Chatterle...
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4.03 avg rating — 211 ratings — 3 editions
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Quicksands: A Memoir
3.88 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2005 — 26 editions
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Aldous Huxley: A Biography
4.04 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions
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Pleasures and Landscapes
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3.84 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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“To remain monolingual reduces the mind to the confines of a tramline.”
― Sybille Bedford, Quicksands: A Memoir
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“When one’s young, everything is a rehearsal. To be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.”
― Sybille Bedford, A Compass Error
tags: experiences, life-lessons, youth, youth-is-wasted-on-the-young
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“What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes.”
― Sybille Bedford, A Legacy
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