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The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars

Dekobra, Maurice more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Imprint: Melville House Publishing
Publication Date: 1/05/2012
Place of Publication: United States

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First published in 1927, the book was one of the twentieth century's first massive bestsellers, selling over 15 million copies worldwide. It's the story of two tremendously charming characters who embark on a glamorous adventure on the Orient Express - and find themselves on a thrilling ride across Europe and into the just-barely unveiled territories of psychoanalysis and revolutionary socialism. Gerard Seliman -technically, a Prince - is so discouraged by the demise of his marriage that he flees to London to become the personal assistant of a glamorous member of the British peerage, Lady Diana Wyndham.

"Exquisite ... the kind of book that gets described as "a delightful romp" in press materials, and that's not an inaccurate description of a book that functions beautifully as both send-up of high society and globe-spanning adventure story, but the novel has a deathly serious core. The featherweight prose proves a brilliant set-up for the darkness that Seliman encounters when he's eventually sent into the Soviet Union ..." --Emily St. John Mandel in "The Millions

""A tale M. Dekobra told so artfully that it tore through five editions like a sickle-bar mower." --S.J. Perelman, "The New Yorker"

Title: The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars
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Contributors: By (author) Maurice Dekobra

ISBN 13: 9781612190587
ISBN 10: 1612190588

Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Imprint: Melville House Publishing
Publication Date: 1/05/2012
Place of Publication: Brooklyn, United States
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BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 843.912 (DC21)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Thickness: 13mm
Weight: 277g