Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy

West, Rebecca

Editore: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929

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First American edition. Lacks jacket. Spine lightly faded, light general wear. 1929 Hard Cover. 275 pp. "Of all the women he had ever known she was the most ethereal. Loving her was like swathing oneself with a long scarf of spirit.' Harriet Hume, musical, mystical and whimsical, is the very essence of femininity- both princess and trollop. Her beautiful room in a dilapidated Kensington House is the setting for this love story, she herself an extension of the beauty which surrounds her. Here amidst trees and lilacs, Arnold Condorex comes to be loved. And love him Harriet does, beyond reason. But Condorex is a man bent on power and Harriet is a woman with powers of quite another kind. In ruthlessly pursuing his ambition, Harriet- his better self- must be cast aside. How Harriet slowly triumphs over Condorex is gradually revealed in this beautifully imagined fantasy, HARRIET HUME, Rebecca West's third novel, recounts the victory of love and the love of beauty over man's eternal quest for dominance and destruction. Written in a style as elegant as the London it also celebrates, Rebecca West's wisdom, imagination and wit are triumphantly brought together in this, her third novel. Codice articolo 2314171

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Titolo: Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy

Casa editrice: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.

Data di pubblicazione: 1929

Legatura: Hard Cover

Condizione: Very Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket

Edizione: First American Edition.