Captain Corelli's Mandolin
AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS
$20.11
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2010
Summary
A new classics edition of this enduringly popular novel.
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician.
When the local doctor’s daughter’s letters to her fiance - a member of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099540861 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009954086X |
| Author: | Louis de Bernières |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2010 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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A wonderful epic novel
A wonderful epic novel * The Times *Louis de Bernières is the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh… His novel will give pleasure to all sorts of readers – A.S. Byatt * Evening Standard *An emotional, funny, stunning novel which swings with wide smoothness between joy and bleakness, personal lives and history… It’s lyrical and angry, satirical and earnest * Observer *A master of haunted realism. His best novel yet. He deals with death and love and tragedy… This is a novel to be prized * Daily Mail *Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is a wonderful, hypnotic novel of fabulous scope and tremendous, iridescent charm - and you can quote me – Joseph HellerBrims with all the grand topics of literature - love and death, heroism and skull-duggery, humor and pathos, not to mention art and religion… A good old-fashioned novel * Washington Post Book World *An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent * Los Angeles Times Book Review *Stunning…a high-spirited historical romance… Remarkable * New York Times Book Review *A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy * Daily Mail *
About The Author
Louis de Bernières
Louis de Berni res is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. His most recent novels are Birds Without Wings and A Partisan’s Daughter.
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