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Over the Frontier
Stevie Smith
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Description for Over the Frontier
paperback. * A powerful novel about cruelty in a world preparing for war, and a profound exploration of ambition, militarism, love, loyalty and death Series: VMC. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 306.
It is 1936. Pompey Casmilus lives in London with her beloved Aunt, bothered by the menace of German militarism, bothered too by the humbug wich confronts it, bothered most of all by her hopeless love affair with Freddy, Its ending plunges Pompey into melancholy, six months rest and recuperation are prescribed and 'savage, sick and cross' Pompey goes to Schloss Tilssen on the northern German border, only to fall in with a strange band of conspirators: the plum coloured Mrs Pouncer, the absent minded Colonel Peck and the dashing Major Tom Satterthwaite, whom Pompey comes to love.
It is 1936. Pompey Casmilus lives in London with her beloved Aunt, bothered by the menace of German militarism, bothered too by the humbug wich confronts it, bothered most of all by her hopeless love affair with Freddy, Its ending plunges Pompey into melancholy, six months rest and recuperation are prescribed and 'savage, sick and cross' Pompey goes to Schloss Tilssen on the northern German border, only to fall in with a strange band of conspirators: the plum coloured Mrs Pouncer, the absent minded Colonel Peck and the dashing Major Tom Satterthwaite, whom Pompey comes to love.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
VMC
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860681304
SKU
V9780860681304
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About Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith was born in Hull and educated in London. She was both a poet and a novelist. She died in 1971.
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