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A. J. Cronin THE DISCIPLE
New York The Viking Press 1968 0670273724 / 9780670273720 First Edition Hardcover Good+ in Fair dust jacket; Dust jacket top spine is torn and has been taped. Back top edge of dust jacket has small tears and edgewear.
Pages are clean and unmarked, binding is tight. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by author on title page. ; 8vo; 282 pages; This is the authors first novel. From the dust jacket: Gordon W. Graves. Nineteen. In town two months now and speaks only a crude textbook French. The language strikes him with numbing literalness. A college dropout, he has been dispatched to the Continent by his affluent California parents to "find himself, " a task for which he allows himself a single year. The director of Gordon 's quest will be George Schroder, a professor of language, to who Gordon attaches himself, or is it the other way around? As the quest proceeds, Gordon quickly becomes e enmeshed in Schroder's powerful personality, and finds he must struggle merely to maintain himself as an entity apart form Schroder's domain. Then there is Mil, Shcroder's frigidly sensual wife, whose behavior puzzles and wounds Gordon while drawing him to her; Mil, who will ultimately be the means of Gordon's sentimental education, which careens from Paris to Madrid and thence to Seville during Holy Week. So the battle lines are drawn, and the denouement is as startling as it is inevitable. ; Signed by Author
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20.00 USD
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A. J. Cronin THE MYSTERY OF BLACK EAGLE ISLAND
New York Books Inc. 1939 Hardcover Good in Poor dust jacket; The dust jacket is in protective mylar and is in poor condition, with many chips, and pieces missing. Inscription to previous owner, written in pencil on ffep.
Brown boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Pages are clean and unmarked. ; 309 pages; The story of the family of cartoonist George Kimbell Ingram. Along with his wife Florence, they have six children, referred to as: The Half Dozen. At the beginning it is revealed that Mrs. Ingram “must, absolutely must, have a rest and change. ” With six kids, it is understandable. Luckily, a friend of the family offers his island and summer house, while his family is abroad. Mr. Ingram obtains the services of a familiar housekeeper who will go with the children while their parents rest elsewhere. The children are put on the train to the seaside village near the island: They boarded a train without their housekeeper because “she had some things to do and will be on a later train. When the children arrive at the seaside village they are met by a local man and he transports them to the island. His wife cooks a meal and the older couple help the children settle in and give them instructions on minding the house and even milking a cow. They leave early before the housekeeper arrives because of a family emergency. But the housekeeper never shows up, and the kids are in charge of the island for 12 weeks. They hesitate to tell their parents about the missing housekeeper, for fear it may worsen mother’s health.
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15.00 USD
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