Seven Summers (New Portway Reprints)

Anand, Mulk Raj

ISBN 10: 0855940867 / ISBN 13: 9780855940867

Published by C.Chivers, 1970

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Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good hardcover ex-library copy with dustjacket. Light wear to dustjacket edges. Usual stamps and stickers, otherwise contents are clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # mon0023979520

Bibliographic Details

Title: Seven Summers (New Portway Reprints)

Publisher: C.Chivers

Publication Date: 1970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

Seven summers, first drafted when Mulk Raj Anand was a student at london university but not published till 1951, recreates the events and feelings of the first seven years of the writer's life, or what he called his half unconscious and half conscious childhood' first of the seven volumes of autobiographical fiction that anand conceptualized but never completed, this book is full of memorable scenes and people observed through the eyes of a child the most impressive of them all being the coronation durbar in delhi to which our young hero is smuggled wrapped in a blanket so that the sahibs might not object to the presence of 'so discordant an element into so gorgeous a ceremony' this edition of seven summers is a special reissue of the classic autobiography to commemorate anand's birth centenary.