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Buy this book on-line de BERNIERES**, LOUIS: : CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN. [Author SIGNED copy.]`LONDON.SECKER & WARBURG,1995. ISBN 0436201585.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,rpt edn.[6th reprint - 4 in year of publication (1994) and 2 in the following year,1995.]
FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten,warm inscribed,dedicated and dated inscrptn,in black ink,to title-page: 'For Nicola - Hoping that you enjoy Natasha's Christmas present! Louis de Bernieres 1996.'Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial illustrated upper wrap and miniaturised portion of same illustration repeated to spine/ backstrip,artwork by Graham Bence; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Miniscule creasing/crinkling to top edge, minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to head+foot of spine/backstrip.
Upper bds' corners minisculely rubbed,but
corners not bumped.Top+fore-edge slightly
aged/toned - as usual/normal - but clean
and unmarked,contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,unmarked,plain
black paper-covered bds with crisp,bright,
stamped silver gilt letters to spine/
backstrip and immaculate plain blue eps.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1-437pp includes half-title+title pages,contents list,poem
- 'The Soldier' by Humbert Wolfe,73 chapters/segments,author's note to rear.
Author's 4th novel.
Though a reprint,an unusual item,in that most of the signed copies available are just that - SIGNED+dated,without dedication and certainly not as warmly and
almost as intimately and personally as this example! See also rja94 for another title/novel from this author.
The primary narrative of the novel focuses round Pelagia and her father Dr. Iannis,two inhabitants of the beautiful Greek island of Cephallonia.Against the backdrop of the horrific events of WW2 and
the Italian and German occupation of the island,the novel traces the love that develops between Pelagia and a musically gifted Italian,Captain Corelli.The novel is inhabited by a multiplicity of other characters and its seventy-three sections are narrated from multiple perspectives,
ranging from omniscent narrative to secret
letters,from the historical writings of Iannis to the imagined meglomaniacal ravings of Mussolini.With its combination of all these narratives - at once beautiful,funny,sad,horrific,and,above all,human - the novel can,at first,seem a little disjunctive and alienating.However,
as its momentum builds,the reader is caught up in a multifaceted narrative that
testifies with sagacity and humour to the way in which the lives of disparate individuals are at the same time infinitely separate and yet intimately interwoven.[SJD.]
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