used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Quest for Corvo

Publisher

Quartet Books August 1993

Publication Date

1993

Language

English

ISBN 10

0704301970

ISBN 13

9780704301979

Binding

Trade Paperback

Condition

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lit / fiction

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Synopsis

The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography 293 pages. Printed and bound in Great Britain. Includes Index. Memoir note by Shane Leslie.

About the Author

A.J.A. Symons (1900-1941) pursued a wide variety of projects in his short life, writing and editing works on the verse of the 1890s, the history of the Nonesuch Press, and critical studies of various figures of note. He is remembered for his groundbreaking biography of the bizarre genius Baron Corvo and for his own eccentric hobbies, as chronicled in a biography written by his brother, the mystery novelist Julian Symons.

A S Byatt is renowned internationally for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession, The Biographer’s Tale and the quartet,The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. Her most recent novel, The Children’s Book was published in 2009.

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