ISBN: 9780946162789

Paperback, [PU: Angel Books], This first English translation of Theotokis's tragicomic masterpiece (1922) is the story of a noble family's descent into poverty, dishonor, suicide, and mad… More...

Paperback, [PU: Angel Books], This first English translation of Theotokis's tragicomic masterpiece (1922) is the story of a noble family's descent into poverty, dishonor, suicide, and madness - and a brilliantly entertaining portrayal of fin-de-sicle Corfu. An aging landowner in the clutches of a wily money-lender, his daughter forced to sacrifice her idealistic lover for a crude but wealthy doctor, and her idle brother in thrall to a vindictive mistress, all come dramatically to life in scenes of passionate intensity, with a deftly caricatured supporting cast of bankers, poets, impoverished aristocrats, loose wives, charitable widows, and aspiring politicians. "I am delighted that this last and most ambitious novel by one of modern Greece's leading and most interesting authors is appearing in English."--Peter Mackridge, University of Oxford., Classics<

ISBN: 9780946162789

Paperback, [PU: ANGEL BOOKS], This first English translation of Theotokis's tragicomic masterpiece (1922) is the story of a noble family's descent into poverty, dishonor, suicide, and mad… More...

Paperback, [PU: ANGEL BOOKS], This first English translation of Theotokis's tragicomic masterpiece (1922) is the story of a noble family's descent into poverty, dishonor, suicide, and madness - and a brilliantly entertaining portrayal of fin-de-sicle Corfu. An aging landowner in the clutches of a wily money-lender, his daughter forced to sacrifice her idealistic lover for a crude but wealthy doctor, and her idle brother in thrall to a vindictive mistress, all come dramatically to life in scenes of passionate intensity, with a deftly caricatured supporting cast of bankers, poets, impoverished aristocrats, loose wives, charitable widows, and aspiring politicians. "I am delighted that this last and most ambitious novel by one of modern Greece's leading and most interesting authors is appearing in English."--Peter Mackridge, University of Oxford., Classics<

2014, ISBN: 0946162786

[EAN: 9780946162789], Neubuch, [PU: Angel Books], New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. One of the most celebrated of Modern Greek novels (1922), depicting the rise of the … More...

[EAN: 9780946162789], Neubuch, [PU: Angel Books], New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. One of the most celebrated of Modern Greek novels (1922), depicting the rise of the new economic/professional middle class in the decades preceding the Smyrna disaster of 1922. A tragicomic portrait of an old landowning Corfu family involving a large cast of characters; a seminal early modernist novel, translated into English for the first time., Books<

ISBN: 9780946162789

One of the most celebrated of Modern Greek novels (1922), depicting the rise of the new economic/professional middle class in the decades preceding the Smyrna disaster of 1922. A tragic… More...

One of the most celebrated of Modern Greek novels (1922), depicting the rise of the new economic/professional middle class in the decades preceding the Smyrna disaster of 1922. A tragicomic portrait of an old landowning Corfu family involving a large cast of characters; a seminal early modernist novel, translated into English for the first time. Books<