BUCK PEARL S.

The Angry Wife

Pocket Books, # 550238, 1967. Mass Market Paperback. A Very Good Mass Market. Tightly bound, a name on front free end paper, otherwise a clean & unmarked copy. There is cover edgewear and rubbing. "Lucinda Delaney is a southern belle ruled by a vision of life that no longer exists. The Civil War has come and gone and her side has lost, yet she is determined to proceed as if nothing has changed—a denial that stokes the flames of her irrational angers. Despite her returned husband’s devotion, Lucinda is sure he is having an affair with one of their slaves." ; 6.9 X 4.1 X 0.7 inches; 250 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 26368

Catalogue: Historical Fiction, Classics, CIVIL War, Literature

Keywords: Historical Fiction Classics CIVIL War Literature Historical Fiction Classics War Literature

CAMOENS

Les Lusiades - Traduction Nouvelle Avec Notes Et Commentaires & D'Une Etude Sur la Vie Et Les Moeurs E Camoens par Edmond Hippeau

Garnier Freres, Libraires - Editeurs, 1890. Hardcover. Good+. Tan spine, with paper covered boards. Five raised bands, gilt titles panelled in red and brown to the spine. Designed foreedges and endpapers. No published date, circa 1890's. A name written on the title page, otherwise the pages are unmarked and tightly bound. Heavy cover edgewear. "Un parallele trop peu ? Atteur le chantre du Vert, Galant. En presence de ses illustres predecesseurs. Avant de discuter les griefs ou les assertions des commentateurs ou des adversaires, nous devons chercher a definir le caractere du poeme des Lusiades en etudiant de pres la vie de l'auteur, l'epoque ou il a vecu et le theme qui s'est otl'ert a son genie. L'oeuvre sera par la mome tout expli quee': avant de la critiquer il importe de la bien comprendre et de marquer sa veritable place dans l'histoire litteraire." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 303 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 26514

Catalogue: French, Classics, Portugal, Literature, Historical Fiction

Keywords: French Books Portuguese Literature Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Classics Literature French Books

MARTEL ALPERN

Adventuras de Don Quijote

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. Hardcover. Green Hardcovers, yellow titles to the cover and spine. Very Good+ one name and a high school stamp to the front end paper & 2 pages with marks, otherwise an unmarked text. Tightly bound pages. Frontispiece and black & white illustrations. "Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray – he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants – Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 244 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 26676

Catalogue: Classics, Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction

Keywords: Fiction > Classics Literature Historical Fiction Adventure Classics Literature Authors Action & Adventure