Revulsion by Nemeth Laszlo (3 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Uk Edition. Hardback. Wear and a couple of small tears to edge of D/J. Unlike most of the post-war novels from behind the Iron Curtain, this book is not concerned with politics. Set between the wars in a remote country district of Hungary, it is the story, told in the first person, of the corroding effect on a marriage of a woman's physical revulsion from her husband, and of its terrible consequences. 542 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

dj. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); olive green cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 542pp. Light shelf-wear, with spine lightly convexed, and trace soil to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 35s net), tanned, with modest shelf-wear and -soil, 1.5" tear to upper front spine fold, and chips, creases, and tears to spine panel and extremities; Good. First published in Hungarian as Iszon (1957), Németh's novel focuses on a daughter and her family on their farm in Hungary as she navigates marriage expectations. [86032].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. GP-338. A novel. Translated from the Hungarian by Kathleen Szasz. Stated first printing (thus). Very good in a very good (small corner crease to front flap) dust jacket.; 542 pages.