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Item Details
Title:
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MEMOIR OF THE BOBOTES
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By: |
Joyce Cary |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£9.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1842121022 |
ISBN 13: |
9781842121023 |
Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
Pub. date: |
17 August, 2000 |
Pages: |
176 |
Description: |
This title contains Balkan war(1912-1913) memoirs of the world famous novelist. |
Synopsis: |
Joyce Cary, the renowned novelist and author of The Horse's Mouth, was 23 years old at the start of the Balkan War of 1912-1913. A one time art student in Edinburgh and Paris and newly down from Trinity College, Oxford he went through the war as a stretcher-bearer in the Red Cross. Shortly after his return he wrote Memoir of the Bobotes without thought of publication. It is an extraordinarily vivid account of a forgotten war fought by peasants under primitive conditions - yet particularly fascinating today to readers with memories of later Balkan wars. It is both a moving and illuminating account of the war but it also offers a self-portrait of a young, upper-class Englishman - idealistic, sensitive, romantic -living in the belief that 'there would be no more wars'. Cary went on to become one of the 20th century's greatest novelists. |
Illustrations: |
19 B/W Photo\Illu(s),2 Map(s) |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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