Echoes war

Echoes of War The First Boer War by Joseph Lehmann a softcover edition published by Buchan & Enright in 1985 Picture cover boards are clean & bright, binding is tight & strong, agecolour to pages Postage within s Africa R60 thru P Office Postnet, Courier or Paxi options are available Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote

  Author(s): Anthony Rhodes  Title:      Echoes of War - Sword of Bone  ISBN: 0 907675 60 3  Publisher/place:  Buchan and Enright, London  This Edition: Buchan and Enright edition of 1986  First Published: 1942 (Faber and Faber, London)  Binding: paperback Number of pages:  235  Weight: 283g  Condition:   Pages have a little discolouration, still in good condition overall   

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 HARDCOVER BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1985, 304 PAGES                                                                                WW 1    

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Nobel-prize winner Francois Mauriac's masterpiece is Therese Desqueyroux, the story of a complex woman trapped by provincial life. First published in , this astonishing and daring novel has echoes of Madame Bovary and has recently been made into a ravishing film starring Amelie actress Audrey Tautou. Therese Desqueyroux walks free from court, acquitted of trying to poison her husband. Everyone knew she'd tried to do it, but family honour was more important than the truth. As she travels home to the gloomy forests of Argelouse, Therese looks back over the marriage that brought her nothing but stifling darkness, and wonders, has she really escaped punishment or is it only just about to begin? Francois Mauriac was born in Bordeaux in . He left his university studies to devote himself to writing, and published a collection of poems, Les Mains jointes (Clasped Hands), in . He married in and the following year was mobilized to serve in the First World War with the Auxilliary Medical Squad in Thessalonica. Mauriac's major literary breakthrough came in with a novel called Le Baiser au lepreux (A Kiss for the Leper). His most famous work, Therese Desqueroux, appeared in and has been made into a film twice: first in , with Emmanuelle Riva in the lead role, and more recently in , in a version starring Audrey Tautou. In Mauriac was elected a Member of the French Academy and in he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in Paris in . "A great novel...the brilliance of its structure and the elegance of its prose never fail to take my breath away". (Beryl Bainbridge). Features Summary Therese Desqueyroux walks free from court, acquitted of trying to poison her husband. As she travels home to the gloomy forests of Argelouse, Therese looks back over the marriage that brought her nothing but stifling darkness... Author Fran cois Mauriac (Author), Gerard Hopkins (Translator) Publisher Penguin Classics Release date Pages 114 ISBN ISBN