The ebb-tide : a trio & quartette
de Stevenson, Robert Louis; Osbourne, Lloyd
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good /No Jacket
- Librería
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Boat of Garten, Highland, Highland, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Heinemann. 1922 Heinemann large type fine-paper edition red leather-bound pocket hardback, gilt titling and decoration to spine, gilt page edges, no dj; Very Good clean copy; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Leather Bound. 1922.
Sinopsis
It is Tahiti in the 1890's and three men--an American sea captain, an English gentleman and a cockney thief--are 'on the beach'. Dispossessed and destitute, the 'trio' agree to sail a smallpox-infected ship loaded with champagne to Sydney, Australia, plotting to steal the cargo, scupper the vessel, and head for the 'Dangerous Archipelago'. Predictably, the thieves fall out. They lose their course and are driven towards an uncharted island which flies the red ensign. The owner of the island, also an English gentleman, has amassed a fortune in pearls. He is both a stern disciplinarian and a religious megalomaniac. As the protagonists in this 'quartette' begin to play out their parts, the plot moves to its dramatic, but ambiguous, conclusion. Stevenson's tale of exploitation in the South Seas recreates both the period and the place through a brilliant exploration of the moral corruption of colonisation.
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- Librería
- Books of Garten
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- SS90
- Título
- The ebb-tide : a trio & quartette
- Autor
- Stevenson, Robert Louis; Osbourne, Lloyd
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Leather Bound
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Heinemann
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1922
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