Captain Corelli's Mandolin (First UK edition-first printing)

Bernieres, Louis de

ISBN 10: 0436201585 / ISBN 13: 9780436201585

Published by Secker & Warburg, 1994

About this Item

VGC.Secker & Warburg,1994.First UK edition-first printing. Black hardback (gilt lettering to the spine, two small nicks and crease on the edges of the cover and spine) with protected Dj (a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj/protected cover),both in VGC. Nice and clean pages with two small marks, ink marks and slightly yellow on the outer edges, small nicks, crease and slightly yellow on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear.440pp including Author's note.Price un- clipped.A collectable first edition-first printing with the black boards version.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Captain Corelli's Mandolin (First UK edition-first printing)
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436201585
• ISBN 13: 9780436201585
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK edition-first printing.
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature & Fiction
  • Rare & Collectable Books

About this title

Synopsis

Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army.

Caught in the occupation are Pelagia, a willful, beautiful young woman, and the two suitors vying for her love: Mandras, a gentle fisherman turned ruthless guerilla, and the charming, mandolin-playing Captain Corelli, a reluctant officer of the Italian garrison on the island. Rich with loyalties and betrayals, and set against a landscape where the factual blends seamlessly with the fantastic, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a passionate novel as rich in ideas as it is genuinely moving.

About the Author

Louis de Bernieres' first three novels are The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best First Book Eurasia Region, 1991), Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book Eurasia Region, 1992), and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. The author was selected as one of the Granta twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. Captain Corelli's Mandolin won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book, 1995. His most recent book is Birds Without Wings.