The Mountains of Allah

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1952. Hardcover. Fine. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1952. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Nice clean unmarked book. Great reading copy. 287 pages. About the book: From fantastic facts and thrilling legends of the Caucausus, an exuberant new novelist has woven a fast moving and fiery historical romance. His setting, an exciting land never before explored in modern fiction, is the rugged mountainous region of Southeast Russia, the bloody battleground of Georgian princes and Moslem warriors; his story, that of two young lovers caught in the violence of the Crimean War. Widowed after a brief six months of marriage, pretty Zoe Duval found herself penniless, completely dependant on three formidable maiden aunts who plotted to wed her to an elderly neighbor. Then came her chance to escape this stifling existence; she was offered a position in Tiflis, in Russian Georgia. For her journey to this strange and distant city, she made arrangements to accompany Monsieur and Madame Tolet, who ran a confectionery shop in the Georgian capital. And it was at their residence in Paris that Zoe first met Captain Novoselsky, an officer of the Imperial Russian Army. In spite of her attempts to resist his charms, she fell deeply in love with the handsome Sasha, only to learn that he already had a wife, incurably insane..... OFFHALL