Author: Dutton, Geoffrey:
Title: The Mortal And The Marble.
Description: London, Chapman & Hall, 1950 1st Ed., Hard cover blue cloth bds, almost VG, small corner tip of spine missing, black cloth behind still present, corners sl. bumped, clipped d/w Good, minor edgewear in places, small scuff and closed tear to top upper edge, tip of spine chipped, small closed tear to rear corner, pp358, tip of corners of last few pges just bumped. A first novel set in Melbourne Australia. "The book contrasts life in a country where the natural world is always close sometimes friendly, sometimes awe-inspiring with the heritage of a complex perhaps over-civilised Europe."

Keywords: Australia Melbourne Australian Vaughan couple natural world over-civilised Europe contrasts


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