Alms for Oblivion: Vol 1 (Omnibus Edition: The Rich Pay Late; Friends in Low Places; The Sabre Squadron; Fielding Gray) - Softcover

Raven, Simon

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9780099268147: Alms for Oblivion: Vol 1 (Omnibus Edition: The Rich Pay Late; Friends in Low Places; The Sabre Squadron; Fielding Gray)

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ISBN 10: 0099268140 ISBN 13: 9780099268147

Publisher: Vintage, 1998

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ALMS FOR OBLIVION is a series of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: soldiers and dons, men of business, politicians and writers. Full of hearty rancour, they form a scathing chronicle of the upper echelons of postwar English society, and this omnibus edition contains the first four volumes of the celebrated series: FIELDING GRAY, FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES, THE SABRE SQUADRON and THE RICH PAY LATE.

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