Author: POTOCKI, JAN Title: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Description: London, Viking. 1995. (ISBN: 0670834289) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and minor bump to upper rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very tiny nick/crease to top of spine. 631pp. Stories within stories within stories. Beginning in 1739 when a Walloon officer serving the King of Spain is plunged into a series of adventures. One of the great masterpieces of subversion and an encyclopedia of the dark side of the European Enlightenment. Written in French around the end of the 18th century. First edition of the 1995 translation by Ian Maclean. Tucked in is a printed sheet of additional notes on the book. Near Fine/Very Good (+).
Keywords: 18th Century, Fiction, Europe, Inquisition, Stories, Enlightenment History 0670834289
Price: GBP 50.00 = appr. US$ 71.40 Seller: Godley Books
- Book number: 025729
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