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It is 1940, and Guy and Harriet Pringle and their friends in the English colony in Bucharest find their position growing ever more precarious. The phoney war is over and invasion by the Germans is an ever-present threat.
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"The most considerable of our women novelists."--Anthony Burgess
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Olivia Manning, OBE, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, spent much of her youth in Ireland and, as she puts it, had 'the usual Anglo-Irish sense of belonging nowhere'. The daughter of a naval officer, she produced her first novel, The Wind Changes, in 1937. She married just before the War and went abroad with her husband, R.D. Smith, a British Council lec-turer in Bucharest. Her experiences there formed the basis of the work which makes up The Balkan Trilogy. As the Germans approached Athens, she and her husband evacuated to Egypt and ended up in charge of the Palestine Broadcasting Station. They returned to London in 1946 and lived there until her death in 1980.
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date1964
- ISBN 10 0434449059
- ISBN 13 9780434449057
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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The Spoilt City [Balkan Trilogy]
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ISBN 13: 9780434449057
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Book Description Turquoise hardback cloth cover. First Edition. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 319pp. With dust jacket. G : in good condition. Marking to rear of dust jacket. Traces of paper ephemera remnants to front pastedown and fep. Previous owner's inscription to fep. Sporadic light foxing. Seller Inventory # mnn24
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