1994, ISBN: 9780745628394

Princeton University Press. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Pos… More...

Princeton University Press. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Princeton University Press, 2.5, vi+404 pages with plates and appendix Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with red lettering spine and cover. Translated by William and Dorothy Rose. Book Club edition.This biography of Balzac was intended to be Stefan Zweig's magnum opus, and is a sizeable, spacious portrait of one of the great French men of letters- the man, rather than the writer. Zweig's reputation, the choice of this by the Book of the Month Club, assures this a critical and popular reception-even though Balzac, exuberant, excessive, with an energy which is overpowering rather than attractive, is a gross-figure- rarely sympathetic. This is the story of his prodigal, prolific, promiscuous life- the years of writing as a hack before he achieved success under his own name; the liaisons with various older women who were to replace-partially -- the mother who had rejected him; the long pursuit of Polish Mme. de Hanska, who, even when free to marry him at the death of her husband, delayed and evaded him with heartless insincerity until her acquiescence when she knew that he was dying. A substantial piece of work, conscientious, considered, with perhaps a certain heaviness to the writing, and on occasion- a repetitious emphasis.Condition: Soiled, paint stain on spine, corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, corners bumped else about very good., Viking Press, 1946, 3, 224 pages. octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2"0 bound in original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Barely recovered from their death-defying adventures in Kill the Butler! (SMP, 1993), Detective Chief Inspector Henry Peckover, Bard of the Yard, and Detective Constable Jason Twitty are sent on undercover duty again. A spate of art thefts across Europe - in France, Switzerland, and Italy - has implicated the Sealeigh Choral Society. For the disappearance of each of the artifacts has coincided with a concert given by the choir. And the Sealeigh Choral Society is about to go on the road again... But before Peckover and Twitty can pack their bags for a whistle-stop tour of Ghent, Gap, Bra, and Andorra, a demanding schedule of rehearsals must be endured. And while the choir's newest recruits struggle to acquaint themselves with possible suspects - and train voices more used to singing Motown than Mozart - someone in the quiet coastal town of Sealeigh makes careful plans to hide a collection of priceless treasure. By the time the choir arrives in Ghent for the first concert of the tour, Peckover is still far from solving the case. Anxious to protect his true identity, precious time has been wasted listening patiently to the problems of nervous sopranosnot to mention the anti-Channel Tunnel rantings of Sealeigh's mayor. Peckover has, however, uncovered some tantalizing information about several choir members who are not quite the law-abiding citizens they pretend to be. Then the stakes are upped dramatically when one of their number is found dead in Ghent's magnificent cathedral - and the evidence points incontrovertibly to murder.... Condition: Front cover bumped. Jacket cover with bumps else near fine in like jacket., St Martin's Press, 1994, 4, 174 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When retired English Colonel plans a nostalgic walking tour in the South of France, his wife engages Kenworthy to mind him. Is this an unpardonable breach of personal privacy? Will the assignment prove a damp squib? Or is Colonel Neville's purpose as sinister as it sometimes seems? Kenworthy finds him in turn eccentric, domineering, secretive and on occasion bumblingly inefficient: then he loses him. Murder follows, and Kenworthy, helped by Monique Colin, a delectable young private eye from an agency in Nice, traces a trail back to the wartime Resistance, a world of pride, passions, jealousies and shame, in with the harshness of reality was sometimes more powerful than the heroism. Condition: Corners bumped else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket., Collins, 1986, 3.5, Polity. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s)., Polity, 3<

ISBN: 9780745628394

Polity. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, wit… More...

Polity. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s)., Polity, 3<