# Novel On Yellow Paper

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- Authors: [Stevie Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/stevie-smith)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2015-04-02

## Description

INTRODUCED BY RACHEL COOKE 'Virginia Woolf's roving consciousness lies behind the prose in Novel on Yellow Paper, but the tone owes more to Dorothy Parker . . . When first published in 1936, it overnight turned Smith into a celebrity . . . the subversiveness of this novel has never lost its appeal, its greatness lying in its exuberant celebration of the uncircumscribed spirit' - Frances Spalding, Independent Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church, shattering conventions in their wake.

## Editions

### Novel On Yellow Paper

- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4900-582-9
- Published: 2015-04-02
- Language: en_GB

### Novel On Yellow Paper

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-08-6068-146-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2015-04-02
- Language: en_GB