Synopsis
Very Good, Reptint. Royal 8vo. 327pp. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or amrks of any kind. In very good bright gilt lettered blue cloth together with very good original unclipped portrait pictorial dustwrapper. Evelyn Waugh said he learned his trade from this remarkable novel, graham greene thought him the most important new novelist of his young life, yet Gerhardie died in poverty and without recognition.
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Review
'I have talent, but he has genius' -- Evelyn Waugh
'One of the funniest English writers of the century' -- Philip Toynbee
'One of the most original and influential English novels of the 20th century' -- William Boyd
'The humour of life, the poetry of death and release of the spirit... [he] describes as no prose writer has done...' --Olivia Manning, The Times
About the Author
William Alexander Gerhardie was born in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1895. As a young man he went to London and, when the First World War broke out, joined the army. He was first sent to Russia and later travelled the world before beginning to write. Futility (1922), his first novel, was sponsored by Katherine Mansfield, and other notable works of his include The Polyglots (1925) and Of Mortal Love (1936). Gerhardie's writing was acclaimed as an influence on many of his peers, including Anthony Powell, H. G. Wells, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and Olivia Manning. He died in London in 1977.
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