Author: GHOSE, ZULFIKAR
Title: Figures of Enchantment
Description: New York: Harpercollins, 1986. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060155752. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has fading to the spine and spine ends / edges and both dust jacket flaps have toning. "Ghose’s first novel, The Contradictions (1966) , explores differences between Western and Eastern attitudes and ways of life. In The Murder of Aziz Khan (1967) a small farmer tries to save his traditional land from greedy developers. The trilogy The Incredible Brazilian—comprising The Native (1972) , The Beautiful Empire (1975) , and A Different World (1978) —presents the picaresque adventures, often violent or sexually perverse, of a man who goes through several reincarnations. Ghose’s other novels include Crump’s Terms (1975) , Hulme’s Investigations into the Bogart Script (1981) , A New History of Torments (1982) , Don Bueno (1983) , Figures of Enchantment (1986) , The Triple Mirror of the Self (1992) , and Shakespeare’s Mortal Knowledge: A Reading of the Tragedies (1993)." (from Britannica). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0060155752 Modern Fiction First Edition Zulfikar Ghose Pakistan
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Title: Figures of Enchantment
Description: New York: Harpercollins, 1986. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060155752. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has fading to the spine and spine ends / edges and both dust jacket flaps have toning. "Ghose’s first novel, The Contradictions (1966) , explores differences between Western and Eastern attitudes and ways of life. In The Murder of Aziz Khan (1967) a small farmer tries to save his traditional land from greedy developers. The trilogy The Incredible Brazilian—comprising The Native (1972) , The Beautiful Empire (1975) , and A Different World (1978) —presents the picaresque adventures, often violent or sexually perverse, of a man who goes through several reincarnations. Ghose’s other novels include Crump’s Terms (1975) , Hulme’s Investigations into the Bogart Script (1981) , A New History of Torments (1982) , Don Bueno (1983) , Figures of Enchantment (1986) , The Triple Mirror of the Self (1992) , and Shakespeare’s Mortal Knowledge: A Reading of the Tragedies (1993)." (from Britannica). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0060155752 Modern Fiction First Edition Zulfikar Ghose Pakistan
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 41421
- Book number: 41421
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