✍ D Richardson
📂 Fiction
📅 2018
🌐 English
⚖ 193 KB
✦ LIBER ✦
The Polyglots
✍ Scribed by William Gerhardie
- Publisher
- Melville House Pub
- Year
- 2013;2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 243 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1612191894
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✦ Synopsis
The Anglo-Russian author William Gerhardie was hailed by writers including Graham Greene, Edith Wharton, Evelyn Waugh and others as a "genius," and this, his long-out-of-print second novel, is generally acclaimed as his comic masterpiece--not to mention "the most influential English novel of the twentieth century," according to William Boyd.
It tells the unforgettable tale of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East during the turbulent years just after the First World War, which displaced them, and the Russian Revolution, which impoverished them.
Recounted by a conceited young English cousin who visits during a military mission, the story is filled with a host of fascinatingly idiosyncratic characters--depressives, obsessives, sex maniacs, and hypochondriacs--often forced to choose between absurdity and tragedy. Yet Gerhardie depicts them as both charming and poignant, as they each struggle for love and safety in tumultuous times . . . and the...
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