Description:
A book with one owner, me, there are some unobtrusive marginal checkmarks and a few pages with underlining. There are also some notes on the end page. (I used this copy for teaching.) A nice working copy with a solid binding. The cover shows wear due to use and storage.From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland are as various as they are numerous, and how people react to exile also varies widely. Thinkof the wit of Alexander Herzen, or the quiet despair of Oscar Wilde, sitting outside the Cafe' de Flore in the Boulevard St. Germain in the hope that someone will pay for his coffee, or the comfortable life of Sir Richard and Lady Burton in their garconnerie in Trieste, or the angst of Albert Camus,or the wanderings of Jack Kerouac. Now, in The Oxford Book of Exile, John Simpson has brought together examples of exile from all over the…
Read More Search Results: Authors starting with S from Barking Dog Books
You searched for:
- Bookseller inventory: Barking Dog Books (authors starting with S)
- Bookseller: Barking Dog Books
Results 1 - 1 of 1
The Oxford Book of Exile
by John Simpson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780192142214 / 0192142216
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Denver, Colorado, United States
- Item Price
-
£12.70£3.58 shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
£12.70
£3.58
shipping to USA