From Whitledge Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
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About this Item
CABARET, a novel by Olive Wadsley, hardcover with dust jacket (price never printed on flap), 1931. BOOK CONDITION: fair. The text block is in fine condition with no tears, dog-ears, or marks. Pages and endpapers are age-toned. There is a crack by the title page but no separation from spine. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. This is not a library book nor a remainder. Gray cloth boards are in good condition (bumping of corners and spine top and bottom, some spots on back cover, edge wear top and bottom). The dust jacket is poor condition (intact, age-toned inside and out, top and bottom edges chipped, one fold is ripped and has separated from the rest of the dust jacket). 7 ½ x 5 ½, 297 pages, 13 ounces. XX [From the first dust jacket flap] By turns charming and thrilling, this story carries the reader gaily into the bright lights of the cabaret stage, the drab apartments of young artists and the dazzling salons of the wealthy. Olive Wadsley is at her best in this brittle world of the stage and society where erratic fate toys carelessly with the loves and careers of its puppets. Lili Savile is an irresistibly charming girl. The child of a divinely gay, Austrian mother and a complacent English father, she is flung from the comforts of a luxurious country life into the whirlpool world. She becomes a famous night-club artist, a great lover; everything a girl could desire falls into her lap and yet true happiness eludes her?a happiness which she cannot define until she meets Carrington Carew. Then, with her destiny clear before her, she is faced with a great sacrifice - which, were it not for her brave character, would have completely wrecked her life. Beneath the gaiety and color of this novel there appears a shrewdness of observation and a sympathetic understanding of its characters. These are not mere pawns cut to fit a clever plot, but real people of flesh and blood who experience the same suffering and joy that is found in real life. XX [About the author] By far the most prolific contributor of novels to The Star [British newspaper which published novels in serial form] in the period from the 1920s to the mid-1930s was Olive Wadsley. Little is known of Olive Wadsley in terms of personal information. A brief biographical snippet that appeared in The Star provides us with the following trivia. Wadsley was a keen motorist and theatre-goer who travelled widely and had an interest in languages. She also has the distinction, apparently, of being the first English woman to fly in a Zeppelin at Hamburg. Known mostly as a romantic novelist, she wrote eight serialised novels for the paper between 1913 and 1931. In terms of sheer wordage her output in The Star was immense. Wadley's association with The Star went far beyond the eight novels she contributed. Throughout the 1920s Wadsley wrote countless feature articles for The Star, many of them appearing on the "Woman's Page." Her choice of subject matter was vast, but the essays she contributed were often concerned with human relationships, the role of women in society and such areas as fashion. Seller Inventory # 001731
Bibliographic Details
Title: Cabaret
Publisher: A.L. Burt Company
Publication Date: 1931
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: Poor
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