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Anna Kavan (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Anna Kavan wrote novels early in her career under the name Helen Ferguson, including A Charmed Circle (1929), The Dark Sisters (1930), and Let Me Alone (1930), which was reprinted under the name Anna Kavan in 1979. As Anna Kavan she wrote several other novels, among them A Scarcity of Love (1956), Eagles’ Nest (1957), and Ice (1967), which is highly regarded as a work of science fiction.

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Largely unrecognized in her lifetime, Anna Kavan has become something of a cult figure since her...

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