num_pages: 252
description: Pompey Casmilus, Stevie Smith’s loquacious alter ego and heroine, works as a secretary and writes down on yellow office paper this wickedly amusing and brainy novel. “Dear Reader,” she addresses us politely, ironically, in the whirlwind of her opinions on death, sex, art. Greek tragedy, friendship, her Aunt, the magnificent “Lion of Hull,” marriage, Nazism, gossip, and the suburbs. But most of all Pompey talks about love: love for friends, love for Freddy––for Pompey is young and in love, but must she marry?
language: English
title: Novel on Yellow Paper
titlecomplete: Novel on Yellow Paper
characters: Pompey Casmilus
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Feminism, Novels, Modern Classics, Female Authors, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 494
publisher: New Directions Publishing